Cloggie

Best is same day and make sure the amount in the letter is the same as in your bankbook and not a satang difference!

Hello all Linux people in Thailand.

Anybody interested to start the monthly meetings again? Have a look at the archives at http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/409242-ubuntu-it-meeting/

Still on this board: Urandom, Colin Chapman, Dharmabam, Crushdepth, DevDrinker, BugJackBaron, Flash77, Pacopeco, William, Kenny, Pinair, Justsomehelp, Kmdkk

Lets see if people are still interested so we can start again, last time we used "Soi 8 Bar", Sukhumvit Soi 8 Bangkok - meeting starts about 07:00pm till ..

New people are welcome as well!

Cheers,

Cloggie

I understand you get a better exchange rate by sending US$ to Thailand rather than exchanging it to TB in Singapore.

I think you are correct, found this later: "Banks here charge more to receive Baht than they do to receive foreign currency because they lose out on the profit of the exchange rate and need to make that up somehow. "

Would like to transfer money from HSBC Singapore => Krungsri Bank Thailand.

Before I transfer the money I hope somebody can help me with the following questions:

1) Is there 'best day' to do that regarding the exchange they use? Can't find the day anymore but I think i once read that Thursday is the best day (average)

2) for cost I can choose between: sender pay, receiver pay, split cost. It looks like it doesn't really matter what I use as I always pay about TB 2.600 per transfer which is a lot of money. Have transferred money now several times (did not write down when, stupid me).

3) As I have a US$ account and a TB account in Thailand, should I send over TH or US$ or where should the conversion take place?

Thanks for your help.

Same here, was not able to update my Lubuntu laptop and switched from Thailand => Main Server, now everything is working agian.

One movie with Chuck Norris had the same storey where a 'bad' cop always put a gun in the hand of innocent victims, looks like somebody in the army did look at that movie as well.

Come on, a 14 year old boy....

Thanks guys for sharing your comments - just like Paul944 said, most Unix guy I know as well just learned it on the job with self study and a lot of try and error :-)

Will have a look at the requirements and see if I can pass the test or not.

Is somebody on this forum a Linux Certified Sysadmin - https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification

If so was it difficult yes / no?

Proud owner of a Trek Fuel EX5 - with tubeless tyres.

When I pickup my 6 year old son from school, I see children that can barely walk - that's how fat they are already!

And when you see them, guess what they eat .......

We used http://www.mappointasia.com/mpa/home.html -

Thanks fletchsmile, will have a look at these posting.

Just go to pay your bill at an AIS SHOP and tell them to STOP all SMS - after 24 hours you will not receive any sms anymore

I want to transfer monthly a fixed amount of money to my sons bank account at Krungsri.

He is now 5 years old and when he is 20 I want to give him his bank book, what kind of bank account should I open?

Tried to explain this to bank staff but they did not understand it, they wanted him to have a ATM card ????

Thanks for any recommendation.

Go to: https://www.edx.org/ and sign up for "Introduction to Linux" - course started August 1st so you are not that far behind.

You can follow the course behind your own computer at any time you like - free of charge.

Have fun!

If you want to invest and do NOT understand what you do - you will loose your money.

Whatever you do UNDERSTAND it for 1000%!!

In that case, ignore my post.

@Rorri

The PC is located in the hotel reception so I guess - correct me if I am wrong - that this is a PC only for guests to temporary work on so you want an environment that can not store data and certainly can not access hotel applications :-)

Windows can only do this with a template, Ubuntu out-of-the-box for free (not want to talk about viruses, spyware, toolbars, rootkits....)

I think we talk about two different things, I talk about a guest PC you about a PC for staff hotel reception.

 

Cloggie, on 04 Aug 2014 - 18:13, said:

Take an 'old ' computer from the office and install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and let all users use the guest account to use the computer.

 

Every time a user logs off, all data is removed and the next user can use it again.

Did he say he was running Linux software, if not then, as good as Ubuntu is, he needs a desktop running a compatible OS. Oh, and Ubuntu, and its derivatives, still any ready for the general public. Even for simple tasks, like backing up you mobile phone, or installing a graphics driver.

 

You want a PC that people can't change and people can't store any data so it's safe, both for hotel as well as user.

I used it before in the hotel I was working and it did a great job and during the time I worked there it never needed any support from me, just sometimes reboot the PC and it was clean again to use it.

Take an 'old ' computer from the office and install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and let all users use the guest account to use the computer.

Every time a user logs off, all data is removed and the next user can use it again.

If she can't even handle a telephone then it's time to find a new girlfriend....

Will be fun in jail