The Digital Surgery (computer questions/problems here)

[buksida]

I presume this is on the internet ... you can try a couple of things:

1) Set your locale to Thai: Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options (XP) > Location > Thailand

2) Change your browser encoding: > View > Encoding > Thai (Windows-874)

3) Use Firefox!

[Khundon1975]

Thanks Buksida

I tried Nos 1 & 2 but still no joy. Don't really want to resort to #3 yet.

As of last night, I cannot even type Thai into my e-mails (I use a satellite Thai Keyboard via usb connection) but strangely I can type Thai into Open office documents!

I think it may be a case of reloading Vista

ววงงงงงงง This is what I get when typing Thai on this and other sites.

Even when looking at Thai newspapers, most of the script (not all) such as links to items etc, look like that.

[Khundon1975]

After much paffing about, I decided to take the plunge and load Firefox.

I now have Thai script. Cheers Buksida.

I will now mainly be looking at the add on's and learning how to use this new system



Reason for edit Colour change.

[Super Joe]

seems as fast as my 1Mbps TOT Broadband connection at home, well impressed. Got the Solomon 520CT, AIS sim with 30 hours free with it, 4900 Baht.

They had 3G USB modems too, and the AIS one was cheaper at 3500'ish, but lady said 3G can only be received in certain areas of Hua Hin, once you get too far away from town will be a problem.

Sounds good, what are the monthly fees and is there a bandwidth limit?
Give it a go on www.speedtest.net

Re: These USB plug-in EDGE/GPRS modems for PC's/laptops (with a normal top-up sim card inside), they work in the same principle as a mobile phone EDGE access, ie: via a bog standard top-up sim card. Not as fast as I first thought, results below, but is fast for basic internet surfing, emailing, you tube clips etc, but anything a bit more technical like downloading then you notice it's slower. Overall impressed and think they're well worth it, definately seem faster than these communal wifi access points you get in condo blocks and other areas of town.

Big Boy posted a little while back about one he uses in UK.


USB EDGE modem:




TOT Broadband Wifi at home:




Costs are same system as mobile phone sim, normal top-up at 7/11 or use 'MobileLife' packages as below:


SJ

[Khundon1975]

Strange things happening with posting page.

Since loading Firefox with a Google tool-bar (for Firefox), strange things have been happening when I use HHAD site.

1.When logging on, the site does not recognise my password first time and I have to clear hidden password and re enter it to get access every time, even though I choose the “remember me” option that pops up.

2.When choosing the “see posts since the last visit” option it used to make the post topic a lighter opaque colour once I had looked at the posts in that topic. It does not do that any more, the colour remains the same.

3.When posting a reply on the posting page, when I choose a smiley and click on it, instead of going where the cursor is on screen it always ends up at the bottom of the page and I have to cut and paste it from the bottom of the page, to where I want it.

4.Finally, when highlighting a word and choosing bold option then colour option, it used to embolden the word and change the colour all with 2 simple clicks, now I have to highlight the word, choose bold and then to change colour I have to then highlight the word within the brackets then choose colour to change it.

Have things been changed within the HHAD system or is it my computer and the computer illiterate fool sat in front of it?

My wife suspects it is the latter, my worry is, she is almost always right.

[redzonerocker]

Have things been changed within the HHAD system or is it my computer and the computer illiterate fool sat in front of it?

My wife suspects it is the latter, my worry is, she is almost always right.

as i have f/fox & google toolbar too & don't get any of the problems you've encountered, it could be your computer or you & your wife could well be right, . . . . again

[Khundon1975]

redzonerocker

That's what I was afraid of.

Strange thing is, all these problems started when I changed to FF, so I live in hope of convincing her that she did not marry an idiot.

It's going to be an uphill struggle though.

[buksida]

I use FF also and don't have any of those problems. It sounds like your security settings are too high and the HHAD cookies and session ID information is not getting stored. Try lowering your browser security or it you have an internet security suite check settings in there.

[hhfarang]

Quick question... If I own a bought from MS and paid for registered legitimate hard copy of XP can I load it on two different machines if they are both my personal machines, like a desktop and a laptop or is the MS policy one license for each machine, even if they are both yours? I'm looking at a pretty good deal on a laptop on sale at Tesco, but one of the reasons it is cheap is that it comes with Linux.

While I have nothing against Linux, I am more accustomed to XP and so if I bought the laptop I would want to reload it with my registered copy of XP and the programs I like to use (while still using that same licensed copy of XP on my tower machine).

Do they allow that or is that a big MS no-no?

[Big Boy]

I've got 2 machines working off the one XP installation disc. Don't know if it's legal, but both receive updates from MS.

[Khundon1975]

hhfarang

I have used a legit copy of XP on 6 computers over the last couple of years here in the UK, with no problems and always recieved updates with no hassle.

I will be sending my copy of XP out to HH in January and dropping it off at JD's, who will pass it on to Buksida. So if anyone needs to load a genuine copy of XP, there will be one for all to use.

[Norseman]

The (MS) law say: if you have the corporate version, you can copy your XP on several computers.
If it's a retail version it's illegal to copy XP to another computer.
Most of us uses the retail, i.e. the private version.

[Big Boy]

That's what I suspected. But regardless, it will work

[m_right]

Quick question... If I own a bought from MS and paid for registered legitimate hard copy of XP can I load it on two different machines if they are both my personal machines, like a desktop and a laptop or is the MS policy one license for each machine, even if they are both yours? I'm looking at a pretty good deal on a laptop on sale at Tesco, but one of the reasons it is cheap is that it comes with Linux.

While I have nothing against Linux, I am more accustomed to XP and so if I bought the laptop I would want to reload it with my registered copy of XP and the programs I like to use (while still using that same licensed copy of XP on my tower machine).

Do they allow that or is that a big MS no-no?

Loading XP on to the new laptop might be a super headache. I bought one at Lotus and it took me a week to get XP working on it. The problem is that XP doesn't have some of the drivers needed for the newer hardware like SATA drives. But it can be done.

[Khundon1975]

Norseman

So if a retail version is loaded onto a home computer and that computer breaks down are you saying MS insists you purchase another copy to put on new computer?

Are purchasers restricted by law in loading onto more than one computer in their homes?

Apart from the Amstrad computer I bought in 1973, every other computer I have purchased came with several discs, including the Windows operating system discs. All of which could be loaded onto several computers.

My latest one came preloaded with Vista and if anything goes wrong I have to phone a help desk, who then reload Vista remotely. I suspect that MS got pissed off and stopped retailers like Dell, Tiny, and all the rest sending out the OP system in disc form, that they now insist that all computers are only sold with preloaded OS.

I have yet to hear of anyone being prosecuted for loading MS onto another computer but I don't doubt it may have happened.

Surely if I have purchased an (overpriced) MS OS on a disc with the product key, then it is mine to do with as I please. Or am I being naive?

I understand MS have ways of checking if a computer is running a genuine copy of windows with their update system but where and how do they (MS) draw the line, if a copy is found on more than one computer, when the update system does it's thing.?

Of course I understand there is copyright law involved but I can buy a book, read it, and pass it on or sell it, no one will chase me for extra payment for doing that.

When I purchase a car with all the expensive computer technology included, I am not restricted when I want to sell it to another person.

Bloody MS.

Now I think I will duck, cause I think I'm about to get twatted.