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1 hour ago, RichCor said:

I'd suggest trying LIVE distributions first

Very good suggestion. There are so many flavours of Linux out there it's hard to decide what's best for you. The option to load the OS from a memory stick or CD is one of Linux's advantages.

On 08/01/2018 at 10:03 PM, chiangrai said:

The speaker system is Creative Inspire T3300 and cost 1400bht delivered..Returning it to the seller(on Lazada) would be about half the cost of the machine).

Returns to Lazada are free and easy so long as you're within the 7 day returns period. Just go to your account, find the order and click on the returns button. Fill in the details you can opt to return via Thai Post or through 7-Eleven, you'll get a document to print out, make two copies, take them and your item, repacked in the original packaging, to the Post Office and off it goes. They'll re-credit your bank account or give you a credit against your next purchase.

Sending stuff back with Lazada is painless and free.

On 09/01/2018 at 9:44 AM, hansnl said:

Muslims will never accept Buddhists

Muslims and Buddhists get along very well together in Hat Yai. The issue within the southern states is less about Islam and more about the acceptance that the southern states have their own culture, language and history, and a wish to see this recognised. I doubt a 'revised' history is going to be of much use, most people will see it for what it is.

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Linux Mint

Try looking opposite the fire station on Sripoovanart Road, there are several bike shops on that stretch of road, big bikes not scooters and a few seem to sell helmets, gloves and jackets.

4 hours ago, petermik said:

AVOID Kaspersky at all costs.........

Why?

Will be 25 years on January 18th.

I didn't think you could suffocate in a car, they're not air tight. As the engine was running might suspect carbon monoxide poisoning is more likely, either deliberate or accidental, through a faulty exhaust system.

Hat Yai Airport handles 55 - 60 flights a day and handles half the number of passengers that Chiang Mai Airport does.

Bought a selection in Hat Yai the other day, always surprises me how freely available explosives are despite being next to a war zone. You need to register to buy a SIM for the phone but a kilo of gunpowder, no problem.

The weather is always going to be wet October to December, it's the NE Monsoon - nothing unusual in that, always amazes me that people somehow think the weather is uniform across Thailand.

Just compare the average climate graphs below.

November-December are always wet down south; the only point in question heading into the monsoon season is how bad is going to be. This year's been wetter than average, hopefully it won't drag on too far into the New Year.

Given the amount of garbage people in Hat Yai happily throw in the rivers and canals it's no surprise Lake Songkhla is polluted.  I despair when I see people just toss a black bag of rubbish into the river. There's no excuse, we have daily refuse collections which go to the city's solid waste-to-energy power plant out by the airport.

I might be able to find someone for you, what's it for, for how long, and when?

Never heard of any of them. Who picks these?

On 08/12/2017 at 8:33 AM, Colabamumbai said:

What is the answer, better water management?

Yes, any water management would be a start in NST and Surat Thani. 

We're lucky in Hat Yai that since the big floods of 2000 and 2010 the relief canal system has been completed. We now have flood gates and two relief canals to divert water around the city and out to Lake Songkhla. Work is underway to further widen the western relief canal to increase capacity. We have a proper water management and flood warning system, with website where you can view water levels via webcam feeds and get the status report.

http://www.hatyaicityclimate.org/

Importantly they've fixed a whole host of issues where poor road building and new construction work had acted to block proper drainage.

It helped that in 2009 the city was selected to join the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN), which came with a donation of  $500,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation.  Help from central government has been sorely lacking, they only ever seem to act to supply after the event 'aid' rather than trying to address the underlying issues and develop and fund preventative strategies.

Hat Yai has largely helped itself.

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I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about - translation please.

Last near miss we had a couple of years back, the water reached the wall below the small terrace area behind the kitchen overlooking the river. The kids and my mother-in-law were sat on the wall watching the water rise. The water came up quickly and with it a wave of creepy crawlies that swarmed up the wall and onto the terrace. Much shrieking and screaming ensued, followed by frantic brushing and spraying of Baygone.

As suggested above Tops, Lazada, Tesco, Big-C, all good, can also add Wine Connection.

15 hours ago, Rhys said:

outside of town

I assume you're talking about Trang.

55 minutes ago, SooKee said:

The Huawei devices I have used have been great (I had an E5577 and now use an E5787 but use them a lot!) and I'd never go back to a tethered phone apart from the basic / casual use.

+1

I was wondering how you were coping up at Ranode, sorry to hear you're flooded again this year.

Your story of the R408 'Dam' is very similar to what occurred when we lived in Khuan Lang, just west of Hat Yai. They didn't put in enough culverts when they upgraded the Hat Yai by-pass, so we got flooded first year we were there, road just acted as a huge dam.

They never seem to learn, though one suspects the original design included enough drains, just that when it got built, cost saving penny pinching meant, they didn't get put in.

I bought a Huawei E5787 4G Mobile WiFi earlier this year from Lazada, mainly for use when travelling, particularly when in the UK, but also as a backup Internet option here in Thailand. Just pop a data SIM in and away you go, can connect up to 10 devices, excellent battery life.

Water levels have dropped today in Hat Yai's U-Taphao river and the flood relief canals; down from Yellow flag back to Green. We've had 586mm of rain in just the last 7 days, it's been raining pretty much without let up for two weeks, and November saw double the annual monthly average rainfall of 450mm with some 920mm total.

Thankfully Hat Yai's flood mitigation measures have worked, fingers crossed we remain flood free for the rest of this monsoon season.

Well they weren't. The 'Thai-phoon' never happened, this is a different, later, weather front that's been playing havoc down south.