la69

Thanks for the reply, Boo!

But no, it is not Pingu although as you say, kids love that one for some reason. =)

The main character seems to be some kind of sea lion. Not sure, really. He/she is blue. The quality of the animation is very good. The textures looks like the newer short animations by Pixar. That is why I think this show is rather new.

If you think of anything else, please feel free to post it 8)

Greetings, peeps!

I am looking for the name of an in my opinion brilliant animated tv-show for kids that Truevisions show/showed. It used to be on channel 31 before they changed the channels. I don't remember the channel name though. I have temporarily moved from Thailand so I can't browse the channels.

The show is very nicely animated so I guess it is rather new. It is about some animals living in an area of ice and snow. Could be the north or south pole or perhaps just a large chung of ice in the atlantic or something like that. They don't speak words but instead make cute sounds. One of the animals look something like a sea lion or seal and it is blue in colour. It is very helpful to other animals.

If anyone know what the name of this show is I would love to hear it. I think my daughter would like this show very much.

/la

Greetings,

I need to find a company to do some work for me cutting grass, cutting bushes, trimming trees, removing weed from walls, cut branches overhanging roads and walls etc on several plots (around 10 small plots or 220 m2 each) in Cha Am area.

Would anyone be so kind and tell me what the thai word/s for this kind of work would be, please?

Regards

Greetings,

As title suggest I need to find a company to do some work for me cutting grass, cutting bushes, trimming trees, removing weed from walls, cut branches overhanging roads and walls etc on several plots (around 10 small plots or 220 m2 each) in Cha Am area.

Anyone have suggestions on companies performing this kind of work in Cha Am or Hua Hin? I checked the ads on Thai visa but they seem to be far away from this area so i would prefer a local company if any.

Did a search on forum as well but didn't find anything relevant. Perhaps the english wording for this kind of work is not gardening or landscaping?

Best regards

Greetings,

I am looking for a safe 1-year storage for my car in Cha Am area or Hua Hin. Does anyone know if that kind of service is available at all in these areas?

There are also rumours about some higher custom officials not giving out notice about these auctions so they are the only ones attending and that way will be able to pay almost nothing for it but so far those are just rumours to me as I haven't been able to confirm them at all.

However that said, it can't hurt to get a personal contact in a higher position at customs.

1. I believe the tax is 320% of perceived value.

2. This means that customs decide the worth of the car. Not the actual value for which you bought it.

For instance, I was planning to bring a Ford Mustang from the US to here. It is not an expensive car really, all engine and plastic but it is highly customizable. The price in the US is aorund 30k usd. I was told by customs agents that the value percieved on that car would be somewhere close to 100k usd due to it being a muscle car and rare, on which I would have to pay around 320% tax giving a roughly total of 400k usd for a 30k usd car. Not worth it.

3. If you know someone at customs they could reduce the percieved value but that is a gamble.

4. There are many sports cars that customs have kept in custody as their owners have not been willing to pay that extra tax based on fiction figures. These cars many times will be sold on auction after some time. The starting price is usually what the taxes would have been but there has been exceptions.

5. I believe embassy personnel are allowed to import one car dutyfree every 2nd year. Something to think about.

I still havent given up getting a fun car over here but it looks very remote. My wife's sisters man works in customs and give me some insight to it but it just doesn't seem affordable enough. Better to buy one here unless you are very wealthy.

Hope you find a solution. Good luck, mate!

Yeah, I'v been thinking about building a ladder myself. I'm not a very good carpenter though but how hard can it be to build a 6-7 m long ladder?

I'm more worried about it slipping/skidding away when I'm on the top and nowhere to secure a safety line...

I would prefer renting a truck with ladder or similar though. Any ideas where I could find something like that?

Greetings, peeps!

I need to do maintenance of the gutter system on my two-storey house as some of them are leaking . Most of the them are beyond reach however. I either need a very long ladder of around 6-7 metres (scary!) or to get some kind of utility vechicle like a small size crane or similar.

There is a 5m "tower" in the area they move around where needed to use for electric cables work and such but I can't get that one in position due to trees, bushes, pool and such.

Any suggestion on where I might find this in Cha Am, Hua Hin or Peatchburi area? Or if there are some companies offering roofwork/gutter repair service? I'd be more than happy to pay for their services as long as prices are reasonable

/la

Ok, more info:

The os 4 already has an option do shut off roaming that actually works with any other carrier as well. Something with Cellular data toggling on/off. I'm sure you can find it.

Before this option was availabe, when using turn roaming on/off it only affected the home carrier. If you got your phone in UK and used it in Thailand it would only prevent roaming with your Uk carrier. The local Thai carriers would still allow roaming thus increasing your bill unless having contract with them.

For permanent internet block I found two options: One is for jailbroken phone and is called bossprefs. It is available from Cydia, the company that provides apps for jailbroken phones. With this one you can disable 3g/edge and when doing so the phone will only get internet via wifi.

The second option, workable for os before 4.x is to click the link on this site: install this That will install an app that blocks all internet except for wifi networks. Can not toggle on/off and it may be required to have a jailbroken phone, I'm not sure.

I hope that was all 8)

About the unlocking of 4.2.1, I'm not sure it can be done yet. The os is jailbreakable but I don't know if there is a solution for unlocking it. You have to check with the phone selling companies that do these things. If you live in Bangkok there are plenty of them.

If you find a good one that seems knowledgeable and they tell you it can't be done yet chances are they are telling the truth =)

However, I believe these companies do "untethered" unlocking, which means you don't have to worry about it after you have unlocked, it just works as any other phone. So if they say it can't be done perhaps there may still be ways to do a "tethered" jailbreak/unlock but the drawback on that is that you need a computer to start your phone every time after you have shut it off.

If they cant help you, google on iphone unlock 4.2.1 and see what you can find. I'm sure there will be solutions for tethered jailbreaks soon enough.

Good luck!

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Hi mate,

Sorry I can't help you with the jailbreak on your device but perhaps I can help with your bills. I got two Iphones in Sweden and brought to Thailand. They were 3gs with firmware 3.1.2 which is very good for jailbreaking. However, it seems that some (not all for some strange reason) Iphones tries to constantly connect to an internet network. If you have wifi where you spend most of your time you're ok but if you don't it will try to connect with the best option available which in most cases is gprs in Thailand. If you don't have a contract with your operator the costs can easily increase a lot. This is what happened to my and the missie's phone. She discovered as she has a habit of checking her phone bills often. In just a week or two her bill was over 2000 baht..

There are settings in your Iphone where you can shut off internet roaming but it doesn't work if you are on a domestic card, ie, you bought an uk phone, brought it to Thailand, got a local dtac or whatever card and start using that one. There are only two options I'm aware of to stop these internet connection attempts when out of wifi access:

The first and easiest is just to call your operator and have it permanently shut off. It will still work with wifi of course. The operator will claim that you with a starpoundsomething code can activate and deactivate it at will but that didn't work for me, possibly because of my phone being jailbroken.

The second is to download an app that takes care of it. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the app and I have just sold my two Iphones so I can't check it for you. The name can be something like vpn block, roaming block or something. I can look further on the net to see if I can find it again. There is a chance this one is for jailbreakable phones only though.

What this program does is that it blocks all internet access except the one you get from wifi. There is no on/off function though so you might want to start with first options and do it with your provider instead.

Good luck mate

Greeetings,

I wonder if anyone know if one or more of the sony ericson x10, x10 mini, x10 mini pro or Nokia N8 have support for thai language yet? Menus, sms and virtual keyboard for instance. The missy is very fond of this phone but I can't find info if Thai is supported. Have found some instructions on how to do it on the net but the list was hefty and it may or may not work so better if anyone here already have one of these phones and could enlighten me.

Cheers

Thanks Jack!

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Thanks all!

I didn't find anything in marketvillage today in Hua Hin but I will check the other places out. And thanks for the link, I'll check that one too!

Cheers

/la

Thanks a lot for the replies!

Yeah, ping is only one way to measure a connection and not really a good one as some said. I use tracert and also pathping a lot together with pings. The thing is that the uk server is at many times completely unreachable for me and the company is suggesting a redirecting tunnel but I should try to find out which one to use. Since my pings are rather slow, around 2000ms for most of the part, and tracert times out sometimes I thought I could see some input from other users as I probably have faulty internetconnections from the house. This could perhaps help me a bit more with the troubleshooting.

There are some good speeds (from my point of view anyway) out there. =)

Once again, thanks!

/la

Thanks Storm.

I got 4 modems, none from the Isp. =)

Eq2 works ok with me from time to time but that is the only one.

Any other playing the game?

Greetings,

The search function is out of order for me it seems. I am sure there are threads about this already, my apoligies for that =/

Where can I buy some basic gym equipment like benches, bars, weights, treadmills, crosstrainers, dumbells and such in Cha Am / Hua Hin area?

Thanks

/la

According to the judges Google and other search engines can not be held responsible as they have "no knowledge about their links being used in an illegal manner" as opposed to the people behind Pirate Bay. They had knowledge and intent.

Just a big munch of rubbish, I'd say.

I followed the first trial every day live on bambozzle and there were nothing that could be said was being against Swedish law except the illegal downloaders themselves of course. Instead they claimed that due to the smart ass attitude these four guys showed they must have a willingness to facilitate illigal downloading and was thus trialed and sentenced for facilitating for others to commit copyright crime.

The fines were calculated as follows: If you download the same song 10 times (For instance, Hey Joe, great song, has one file with 274 versions of the song), find the version you like and start listening to only that version they calculate it a minimum loss of 10 full cd records (or 274 cds of Hey Joe compilation if you downloaded that one). A common price for a CD in europe is around 15-20 euro so that would "cost" them 150-200 euros (or 4110 - 5480 euros) for that one song you got in your phone now. On top of that a multiplying factor was added for a "scare" effect, something that is against the law in Sweden. The trial accepted these claims however without even listening to the independent science reports saying otherwise.

In this second trial they disregarded this way of calculating loss however but increased the "scare" factor.

Basically, download in Sweden, get caught, be punished for life (you and your family and future generations) but go murder a mother, rape the kid and then kill some more in the shopping center and you are out of prison around 8-10 years after (generally and statistically speaking, each case varies of course).

There is no reasonable correlation between crime and punishment in this case.

Don't download. Or use a Vpn!

Be careful out there 8)

Edit: Minor spelling

Greetings,

I was wondering if some people here are playing FFxiv and how it performs for you? Lag? How many login attempts? What Isp you got and what area you live in?

I can't connect at all for most of the time. Out of a couple of hundred log in attempts I have managed to get into the game 5 times of which 4 had lags over two minutes and was followed by disconnects around 10-20 mins after. One time I was actually able to run around for about two hours but interacting with Npc's took around 30 secs for each chat option.

My internet is really bad most of the time. I have a 8/1 mbps line and usually connect at 6 or 7 mbps. For a month or two I have had terrible connections though with constant disconnects and very slow connection speeds. At&t have been here two times to check (and fix some) the cables and I am a constant telephone spammer to 3bb who also have had technicians sent here, fixing some boxes and cables. But problems remain. Cant even use facebook or google at times. But for the times when it works, when speed seems to be up, I still can't seem to get in FFXiv at all. All computers are ok. Routers/modem are ok. Software is ok with nothing blocking the game and so on.

I am hoping I can change Isp to see if the support gets better so some feedback on your quality with your Isp and FFXiv would be appreciated! (Although I don't think I can change as I live a couple of Km's too far away from most Isp's server locations)

Thanks

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Greetings,

I was hoping a couple of people could ping 4 IPs for me for a couple of minutes and then post the results here.

The adresses are:

uk.focusvpn.com (adress in the uk)

123.108.108.138 (adress in hongkong)

121.156.56.106 (adress in korea)

203.211.132.51 (adress in singapore)

These are adresses to vpn-service servers in various countries. I play some games on the internet but it is almost impossible to play anything from here. Most of the problems are probably related to my cables to the telephone station but some are ofcourse the general bottleneck going out from bangkok.

Together with the Vpn company we are trying to find better solutions and they have come up with a redirecting tunnel from one of these servers. I just have to pick one. I am hoping to get a bit more feedback about pingtimes to these servers from other people though as it may help me with the troubleshooting with my Isp.

So if someone has 20 minutes available and could ping a few mins on each one of these Ips and post the result or PM me together with the Isp that you are using I would be very grateful.

(In order to play Lordoftherings I must use a Vpn to get european IP as lotro europe dont allow IPs outside europe due to licensing rights.

EqII works most of the time however even very very slow at times. I dont need Vpn for Eq2.

I dont need Vpn for Ffxiv either but that one I have only been able to log into 5 times out of a couple of hundred attempts.)

Best regards

/la

ManinSurat and Hyperion:

Great tip! Just downloaded the iso torrent. I really want to try this game out but I was a bit worried about regging it as my credit card is Swedish. However, you stated they now use PayPal which is great info! So I'll give it a shot.

I was wondering one thing though, there were also patches available on the site that offered the torrent. I suspect I could just download them and run them before getting CD-key. Or maybe have to do after getting the key. I was wondering if you did this or let the square installer do the updates after you installed the .iso?

My internet is very very bad and an ongoing technical matter with 3bb but as long as the downloads are made from Thailand it is fast enough so I'd prefer to download via the torrent page. Gonna try it out.

Just curious!

And I miss Ffxi =)

Thanks for the replies!

I just got back home from a 1200 km ride and can certainly agree on road's "smoothness" =)

Sounds like it will be good to keep the tyres I have.

/cheers

Yeah, I guess so. I already have 17" right now. It looks great but if possible I'll do 18".

Btw, the new City SE version comes with 17" from store. The two lesser models comes with 16".

I had an old model city and had rubbing issues (on full lock) with 16". You have to put them on and make sure u can turn lock to lock and they don't rub anywhere. 17" might be doable, though my guess is 18" will rub and give a more harsh ride.

Hey peeps!

Anyone knows if one can put 18" wheels on a Honda City 2010?

At shop and at tyreshop place where I got some nice 17" ones they said no but they seemed a bit uncertain. Some time after I saw a Honda City with wheels that looked to me at least to be 18".