gpdjohn

I've been using SolydK for the past two weeks. Debian stable spin.. "replacement" for the Mint Debian ( LMDE ) sort of..

Feels like Mint.

Also in a XFCE version, named SolydX, of course.

So far...nice and sweet.

Using an Dell Precision M4600 i5 with the older M5950 , cira 2011 ( AMD ATI ) w/ 16gb ram and not seeing any problems with Ubuntu 13.10.

I think it rude to stick fingers up

So which nationality do you fit in?

If the palm of the hand faces the signer (i.e., the back of the hand faces the observer), the sign signifies: An insult. This usage is restricted largely to Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

The common misconception is that this started in the Hundred Years War, before the Battle of Agincourt.

The story is that if French soldiers caught an English bowman they would cut off the index and middle fingers of his right hand so he could not draw a longbow. So, prior to the battle the English bowman would wave these two fingers at the French whilst shouting "Pluck yew!"

Over time the gesture came to mean "F*** you!"

However, this story is almost certainly not true.

Only nobles and others who could be ransomed were, if caught, kept alive. Commoners were not worth a ransom and feeding them etc. would be costly, so any captured during or after a battle were usually killed.

Could be some truths of the story in that I have always heard of the two fingers up as the Longbowman's Salute.

Sorry for the spelling errors in the previous post.. horrible of me...

As I understand it, your wife can apply for US citizenship after living in the USA with her green card for three years.

At that point, how long does it take before she gets citizenship?

3 years if married prior to application or something like that, or 5 if you were married on a K1.

Going through the process right now w/ the wife ( who's not divorcing me .. you know after the green card, your no longer a factor if she is granted citizenship or not..) and currently having to put up w/ doing time over here for 1 more year, been here 2 now. ( and it BLOWS!)

After waiting for the 3, or 5, then the old shuffle of govt forms begins anew, $$$ cha-ching, interview, written test, ability to read and understand angrit ( this is a freebee since have of this is done in the interview)

Forms approved, rubber stamp.. another tax payer joins the ranks.

4 months possibly.

The IRS is funny that way.

The only time in my life (so far, knock on wood) that I've received an inquiry from the IRS was over a matter of 13 CENTS. Don't ask what the postage cost.

I have a refund check from 2002 for the total of $ 1.75

I framed it and put it on my wall.

You should check the "search " function as this topic as well as others that closely are related to this subject have been covered and debated ( and possibly some that are still going on..) for several years.

From my understanding, yes, a foreigner can possess a weapon under a work permit only. Very restrictive.

Realistically,

Gun- foreigner-bad.

Advise

Make friends with the mafia guys in your village.

( 1500- took me over 5+ yrs )

This is good stuff..

Refreshing & a good learn.

Mmmm did someone say beer?

Chang - the Thai equivalent of Harp lager (having nicked some of my dads as a kid, once tasted never forgotten) ie an abomination before man and God

Singha - drinkable, esp in large amounts so by time 10 pm rolls around you don't care anymore, tastebuds having being liquidated by the million

Leo I ain't tried, Heiniken can get back home so why bother in Thailand? Can't stand San Miguel, the Mexicans are having a right laugh at the expense of the gringo's

Any way that's my ill informed 2p's worth

Why would the Mexicans be having a right laugh, San Miguel is from the Philippines, not Mexico.

Here's a delicious brewdog from Mexico!

Wait!! This is a hoax! It's impossible! Linux and Unix are immune to hackers and malware, hadn't you heard?

Server hack, not the OS.

In my tired state, I read it wrong...

I'm with ya now..

Wait!! This is a hoax! It's impossible! Linux and Unix are immune to hackers and malware, hadn't you heard?

Server hack, not the OS.

as explained in a ZD Net article,

In its latest announcement, Canonical broke down its understanding of how it believes it had been breached.

The initial attack happened on July 14, with a moderator account used to post an announcement on the forum. The announcement itself is believed to have contained a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, designed to steal the login session information from the victim's browser cookie. The compromised moderator account was then used to message three of the boards' administrators, allowing the attacker to hijack an administrator's login session.

Once armed with the administrator's privileges, the attacker then inserted a "hook" in the vBulletin web-forum software to allow them to execute arbitrary code. This hook was in turn used to upload two shell kits, giving the attacker the same privileges on the server as the process running vBulletin — in this case, it was limited to www-data, an account with restricted access to the server, commonly used only for web services.

While this account doesn't provide root access to the rest of the server, it did allow the attacker to dump user information, making off with the usernames, email addresses, and salted and md5-hashed passwords for 1.82 million users.

The missing pieces of the puzzle are how the attacker originally gained access to the moderator account, and what XSS attack was used as one of the administrators deleted the post that triggered it.

Cleaning up its breach, Canonical has reset all system and database passwords, rebuilt the servers running vBulletin, informed all users, and moved to its Ubuntu Single Sign On system for logins. It has also closed off the ability for hooks to be modified or added, disabled the ability for moderators to potentially post code that could allow XSS attacks, and implemented the automatic expiry of inactive moderator and administrator accounts.

Other good housekeeping measures include reviewing and hardening its server configuration and firewall policies, and forcing HTTPS for administrators and moderators.

Typical discussion in the US of A...

They: So, where did you go for vacation?

Me: Thailand

They: Really... I met someone from Taiwan once !

Those that are aware of the actual country of Thailand usually have their opinions jaded by the media who rarely report anything about Thailand unless it's the predictable expose on TV which is always about either the tourist sex industry or child sex trafficking

5555.. I get this all the time about Taiwan.

Here's my 90 day reporting attire.

Casual, but with some flair...

Dual boot Ubuntu 13.04/Mint 15 cinnamon - laptop

Dual boot Ubuntu 12.10/ Mint 15 mate- desktop

Ubuntu 12.04- laptop

Lubuntu 13.04- desktop ( old, old HP P4.. probably going to switch to Puppy on this one )

Getting ready to put Ubuntu 12.10 on another older desktop which currently is running XP

Let me tell you from experience, you're in for a long haul.

Took my family 5+ years and allot of money.

( Connected Uncle and several high ranking Army officers and even with a Kings Pardon my family member still sat in prison for another year after )

In our case it was who you know and how much can you pay.

Family member was released at 5 years and some months while serving a 29 yr sentence.

Also, there is a crossing about 1/2 mile from the station close to the entrance to the Army base where there are markets across the street. There is no "crossbucks" sign at this crossing and the tracks are not viewable from the crossing. Would be quite easy to get hit by the train in this area at that time.

It's not an isolated area, but out of sight from the mainstream.

After 20+ years as a police officer I have never heard of "attending an incident"... we'd call it "guy got killed by a train.."

......He fell onto the track.... I guess from the platform?

I haven't seen many platforms "in an isolated area" in Thailand? ...

Suicide !

How do you commit suicide with a heart attack?He fell onto the track.... I guess from the platform?

I haven't seen many platforms "in an isolated area" in Thailand?

I think the Doc is more on track!!

There is no mention anywhere of a platform. this is a rural train line that goes through the countryside. Even at the station, you can just walk across the tracks, and a steady stream of people do, for the reasons previously mentioned. Done it myself countless times.

Outside the station it is just track on level ground, nothing at all to keep anyone off it. The line does not run very frequently, just a few times a day.

Please everyone refrain from speculations that could be painful to the man's family (and which you have no basis for one way of=r the other).

One time on a trip back to the US, United Airlines misplaced my bag and informed me that they would deliver it to my residence when it showed up.

It was around 2:30 in the morning when I heard a knock upon the door. Trying to wake up as I answered the door, I was greeted by an Asian man telling me he was from UA and was delivering my bags.

I was staring at him in disbelief and he asked if there was anything else..

I told him his English skills were very good and I was impressed. He looked at me as if I was crazy, told me to have a better night and left.

I was still somewhat asleep and had not caught on I was in back in a English speaking country. ( well, where I'm from Spanish seems to have taken over now as the language of choice...)

I had not forgotten English...just was not used to hearing it spoken.

I can't get my wife to touch it other than to shut it off at the end of the day. Not familiar is the response I get..

Anyway,

Seems to be running stable and smooth. This morning was my first glitch as the software updater kept telling me to check my internet connection.

I do like it so far.

The distrohopper disease is kicking in again though...maybe I'm going to load up the newest OPENsuse into a VM and get my fix.

I want to try Crunch# but feel I'm just not ready for that as of yet....

I'm getting pretty good at conversational Thai and living in a small village it has helped me beyond bounds. I'm trying to learn how to read but find it's difficult.

As other have stated it has opened up a whole new world.

Some funny little things along the way in my learning adventures... Master monk at my MIL's temple who speaks English well, told my mother in law "You should learn English so that you may speak with him.."

Another time I went to the little market in the center of the village to buy dog food and some smokes. No problem until the owner's daughter asked me as to home much in weight did I want...ah..ah..a.. I stuttered, she walked over to me ( I was sitting on my Vespa ) and in perfect English asked "how much do you want?"

I was dumbfounded at first..I actually thought she has said it in Thai and I had become so good in understanding it but within a nano second it then registered in my pea brain. "Where did you learn to speak English" I asked...

"University of Oklahoma" she replied.

My cousin told me he wouldn't talk to me until I spoke Thai, but turned out he was one of my best teachers.

... Wesley Snipes is in the final months of a 4-year jail s

He is out and about now. 2 years served

and currently under house arrest for a few more months... it ain't over yet