harry

I regularly, monthly, travel between Thai an VN by air.

For some reasons I want to have car available in VN and or and a Laos car seems to be ideal: cheap and 28 days allowed in VN.

My questions:

Your idea of democracy is very limited...

Dear Democrat spokesman Chawanon Intarakomalyasut, if you don't like a bill then you can bring up arguments against it during the debate and then vote against that bill. What, you cannot win the vote because you don't have a majority? Why didn't you win the majority? Because the majority of Thais don't like your party? Well bad luck for you but I am going to teach you a lesson for life: this is called Democracy, the majority wins, the minority looses!

Based on the name of your party we could expect you to know that, unless the name of your party is just another big lie! Other lesson: to make threats is not democratic either!

Don't tell your wife about that!

My son told me he has no problem if I pop my clogs here in Thailand as long as he can come to the Thai style funeral, so to me, it does not matter where I die, though I'd prefer to die in bed making love with a beautiful woman.

Check both qatar and Etihad websites. When i looked a few weeks back one of those two was offering that package for a under 28,000 baht

24000 for me to Brussels and......0

I don't understand all responses with in mybopinion high prices!

I never pay more then about 32000 baht, last 2 24000 to brussels with Etihad and 18000 to Istanbul with Gulf with a nice 2-3 day stopover (Istanbul is interesting), a cheap pegasus ticket to NW Europe.

Just subscribe toe news letters of airlines, farecompare, thaifly, trivago and some others well before the flying date (+ 2 months).

Other tip:

Recent experience: both with Thai airways BKK-BRU 58000; SGN (Saigon) -BRU 31000 (plus BKK-SGN with vietjetair 1500) with 2 possible stopovers in BKK.

Note: They don't want to spoil there homemarket!!!

For London it would be th same picture!

Success,

harry

It might be easier/cheaper just to buy new ones

Gawd knows they are cheap enough these days.

I know... but I hate to throw away things which with a minimal effort and money can be re-used or repaired... environmental friendly as well

I travel a bit and cable ties work fine.

So far ok for me too, but I rather upgrade my travelling experience by not worrying about whether they hold...

Meanwhile I have 3 ABS (?) suitcases with broken locks.

Where could I get replacement locks in the KK area?

Thanks for your help!

harry

Thanks Halion (funny halide... you know)!

After reading so much non sense sometimes mixed with half truth or scattered true info at least a simple post with factual and true info.

I would wish people first look somethinng up on wiki, maybe google sometimes before making statements (no refs!) about good/bad true/untrue..

I could cite and comment on tenths of exampleas in contributions here but am to lazy to do so and not offending others might be a reason as well!

Your post need however some completion and .... but looking back at the original post... everything, including my post is off-topic

Sanitation of water for domestic use is rather more complex than earlier posts suggest and several critical factors are missing from this story making any judgement calls highly speculative. Sodium Hypochlorite (Hypo..Bleach) can be obtained relatively easily in several strenghts from around 6% active 12 % active for houshold use . This can be used easily for sanitation purposes but if the water is for potable use then the game changes significantly. Providing water for potable use using Hypo needs rather careful calculations and the provision of test procedures for free and combined chlorine. Free chlorine is in fact residual chlorine the presence of free chlorine is an indicator that the water is free from bacteria only but not that it meet the standards for potable water.

Assuming that this guy simply wanted to ensure that the tank water was sterile he would have to know the following. Total volume, concentration strenght of the hypo used and the means to test for the chlorine concentration in the water as a free residual chlorine of <2 ppm ( parts per million ). Hypo is a strong oxyidizing agent and over dosing would be most likely to cause skin reactions in bathing or even washing dishes. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Yes!!! Actually it was vietjet air!

Didn't Vietnam airways do this a few months back?

<br />A bit far for me. I live in Chiang Mai. Would have worked though. I have a couple Rai with triple fencing along with a Yellow Lab and Golden Retriever that get along well with other dogs.<br /><br /><br />

Thanks for that Joe!

SimonD,

I understand the other posts about village life but consider this as well:

Village life can be Ok, it's up to what you like but I would not want to go living in my GF villlage because:

- privacy

- your life in that village after a divorce which hopefully won't happen, but is does with other people.

I would opt for another village, not to close and not to far from your GF's.You then still can make trips to visit your inlaws and vv.

I'm travelling regularly with my wife, sometimes I take my dogs but with overseas travel this is impossible.

Up-to-now a friend or family (Thai mother-in-law) took my dogs in their countryside home and I occasionally took care of theirs.

As I travel quite a bit I don't want to call on the same people all the time.

Is there a dog lover with enough (fenced) space around their home (countryside) to take my dogs for max up-to 4 weeks?

I am happy to provide the same service for them.

I am also prepared to pay for this service (Up-to now it costed me a bottle of Jameson Gold for this).

I have a one year old Golden Retriever and a 10 years old Dalmatian.

Moreover, if more people have the same problem and/or they don't want to leave their dog(s) to the "care" of Thai family we could create a exchange group for this.

Oh,.... I live in Khon Kaen

I am eagerly awaiting responses!

regards,

harry

Yeah, I should have mentioned that : Khon Kaen

Where do you live?

I'm travelling regularly with my wife, sometimes I take my dogs but with overseas travel this is impossible.

Up-to-now a friend or family (Thai mother-in-law) took my dogs in their countryside home and I occasionally took care of theirs.

As I travel quite a bit I don't want to call on the same people all the time.

Is there a dog lover with enough (fenced) space around their home (countryside) to take my dogs for max up-to 4 weeks?

I am happy to provide the same service for them.

I am also prepared to pay for this service (Up-to now it costed me a bottle of Jameson Gold for this).

I have a one year old Golden Retriever and a 10 years old Dalmatian.

Moreover, if more people have the same problem and/or they don't want to leave their dog(s) to the "care" of Thai family we could create a exchange group for this.

I am eagerly awaiting responses!

regards,

harry

Best place to go now: Nha Trang. 400km from Saigon.

Lively, beaches, restaurants and lots more!

Look on intenret before you decide for other location!

Success,

harry

Thanks guys, looks like it will be HCMC for me.

I just removed some old stickers from my passport. It worked for Thai, Lao and VN!

I kept the removed stickers.

Actually it was the Laos consulate who did it first for me!

I'm going from Thailand, wow 2 stamps and a sticker + the page I need for the Thai tourist visa, good thing I asked.

Think I'll go to Malaysia and try to get a 60 day, should leave me enough time to renew my passport at the embassy here.

I wouldn't be in this mess if I hadn't forgotten I had only paid for a single re-entry last time then left twice, cost me my non-imm visa

Anyway, thanks for your help MJCM.

I have experience both with sunbelt &isaan. Lawyers (Korat). Both ok! Isaan Lawyers can however go to court. for you, if necessary! That'swhy I use them now most of the times. Ask for Sebastian!

More info?pm me.

Hello Raybona, I live in khon kaen for 9 years and after visiting VN a few times. seeing different places,<div> I decided to rent a house in Nha Trang, travelling regularly between kk and NT. </div><div>KK is pretty dull, not touristic, a few falang mixed public but mainly people most who visited Pattaya/Phuket and then migrating to here to &nbsp;the girls hometown.  </div><div>Nha Trang is totally different, no KK, no Pattaya, but a lovely booming beachtown, islands and mountains. Many bars/restaurants with a great choice of food. (beers start at THB 20!). Many Aussies and Americans and English. </div><div>Renting a hotel room for a month: THB 6000,- up. Apparments downtown from 10000,-. </div><div>Friendly people. You need a bit of commercial skills if you'ŕe in the buying process. Many tourists, older and many backpackers, no whoreseekers!<div>Medical care: very mediocre! I will fly to bkk if I have a serious problem.</div><div>Visa 3 months np, on arrival, but you have to arrange this with a visa intermediate or go to a consulate in chiangmai (more expensive THB 6000 for a multiple)</div><div>I like it!</div><div>you can pm me for more.<br><br><br>Something want wrong, I don know what!?

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not true!

chlorine kills bacteria but can't defeat a virus.

I used partition magic under xp and only left my data partition intact (I moved it to the end of the drive). If necessary I also can remove the data partition as I do have back-ups.

I therefor think that all operating systems, ubuntu & xp are removed. The 100 MBR is the first partition.

I think it is best to install first w7 and then ubuntu, right?

thanks again!

harry

I don't understand.... you made a 100MB partition for the MBR and a 30GB partition for windows 7... The install for windows doesn't give an option to choose your MBR location, only where to install w7!?

No, you can't choose where to install the MBR. When you install Windows, the MBR will always be written to the first primary partition of the harddisk.

Let me ask... Whilst installing Windows 7, were you already running another operating system (e.g. Windows XP) beforehand? If so, was it installed before or after you created the 100MB partition? << This makes all the difference and will determine how your dual/tri-boot configuration will take shape.

Assuming you were already running Windows XP and are going to install Windows 7 as a second operating system, Windows 7 will overwrite any existing MBR it detects. So if you had XP installed before you made changes to your partition configuration, the newly created 100MB partition cannot be used to hold the MBR; thus, it becomes useless. Do you follow?

Any step by step tutorial starting from partitioning on to full functional operating systems?

I don't want to bother you to much...

I can give you a step-by-step tutorial, but first, I need to know some details about your configuration. Specifically, what operating systems are installed (if any), and the order in which they were installed relative to partitioning your harddisk.

The Master Boot Record (MBR) should be on your Windows XP partition (C:) by default. DO NOT attempt to move the MBR.

I don't understand.... you made a 100MB partition for the MBR and a 30GB partition for windows 7... The install for windows doesn't give an option to choose your MBR location, only where to install w7!?

The safest way to get the MBR installed to a dedicated partition is to start over...

Sorry, I have only basic knowledge on these not common tasks... allthugh my friends think I'm a computer "expert"

To install GRUB boot loader to the Linux root "/" or drive of your choice, access the Advanced setup options (scroll down to Step 9).

Above comment also applies for the linux install procedure.

Any step by step tutorial starting from partitioning on to full functional operating systems?

I don't want to bother you to much...

Thanks again,

harry

Thanks Supernova for your idea, but I would appreciate a little elaboration on "how to install both operating systems". I have fdisk my harddrive as you, exception windows xp (under xp with partition magic). But how now to install the MBR & GRUB etc. into the righ partitions?

Will appreciate your answer!

thks,

harry

I have three hdd's in my computer. The first harddisk (80GB) holds all operating systems and is partitioned as follows:

Partition #1 (Primary-1), size: 100MB
  - NTFS
  - This is the MBR. Reserved exclusively for Windows boot files (ntldr, bootmgr, boot.ini). 

  Partition #2 (Primary-2), size: 10GB
  - EXT3
  - Linux root "/". GRUB is installed to this partition and is used to boot the system.

  ------- EXTENDED -------

  Partition #3 (Logical-1), size: 15GB
  - NTFS
  - Windows XP

  Partition #4 (Logical-2), size: 30GB
  - NTFS
  - Windows 7 

  Partition #5 (Logical-3), size: 18GB
  - EXT3
  - Linux Home "/home". Common data storage for both Linux and Windows; shared partition. 

  Partition #6 (Logical-4), size: 2GB
  - Linux swap

This partitioning scheme may seem overly complicated. I partition this way for several reasons. Notice the MBR and GRUB are on different primary partitions. This allows me to install/uninstall Linux or Windows without any issues. I just need to remember to set the 'Active' primary partition accordingly. The system can only boot from a single primary partition at any given time. If GRUB is removed, the MBR partition must be set active in order to boot Windows. Running a "tri-boot" configuration (XP-7-*NIX), the root "/" is set as the active partition making GRUB the default boot manager for all operating systems.

With my current setup, either Windows partition can be reformatted at anytime without having to worry about breaking the other. As a precaution, I backup the 100MB partition to a Ghost image. Should the MBR become corrupt or Windows XP needs to be reinstalled (which results in the Win7 boot code being overwritten), I can restore the MBR to working order using this backup image. Alternately, I can also use bootsect.exe to accomplish the same thing. Since MBR and GRUB are kept separate from each other, messing around with the NTFS partitions doesn't affect my Linux installation, and vice-versa.

Whether you choose to install all operating systems on a single harddisk (like I have) or use a separate drive, doesn't really matter. The underlying concept is the same. The important thing to remember is to install GRUB to the root "/" partition instead of the partition holding the Master Boot Record (MBR). This will give you the most flexibility and eliminate startup issues should you want to remove Linux or reinstall Windows at some point in the future.

yes there is!

I have a Kenwood sound system in my car (MU7) and i'd like to connect the GPS unit Kenwood KNA-G430TH (price around 27.000 baht). This unit is from Garmin and is only in thai. Now, they ask me an 8.000 more baht for a SD card with the english language maps.

Is there a different way to upgrade the gps with the english language and save the 8000??

Thanks Jon,

i will try!

You can read about here in the Pli wiki about how to mount other drives to a DM500

1. Mount drives to a Dm500

2. Pli wiki for the DM500

Can you elaborate a bit on that "no rocket science"? Is it just adding an ip etc. in the 8 mount options?

thanks,

harry

Even the DM500 can be used as a PVR.

Since it has no harddisk, it requires a network share where it can store the data. 'Mounting' this share can be done through the menu on the television, or through the web-interface of the dreambox. (well okay, one does have to understand a bit about computers to create a share on a computer, but then again, that's not rocket science....)

Selecting something to record is even easier - in the webinterface you select the EPG list. Find the program you want to record, click on the clock displayed next to the description and voila, the program will be recorded. Note: since there is only 1 tuner in the box, you cannot watch another channel at the same time.

To playback a recording, select the file menu, go to the 'movie' directory on the share and select the recording.

If you're considering a PVR - forget about the expensive box from Truevisions and get a Dreambox. Although running on Linux, the user interface only requires you to push buttons on the remote!