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mattcodes

Member Since 2009-05-11
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In Topic: Must Have Books...

2010-12-29 13:11:13

Its probably better in the long term getting his English reading skills up to par. Sure there are translated version of CSS3 for Dummies etc.. but all the books I consider 'gold' in that area I've not seen in the Thai bookstores. In addition all the blogs and design sites alistapart etc.. that you'll need are written in English. And of course YUI/youtube/vimeo - most of the screencasts are english too.

For Javascript all you need is Crockford JS series (free on YUI theatre) and for deeper understand Javascript - The Good Parts book.

For CSS, the W3C 2.1 Spec (free pdf/word doc) I find the most conclusive.

In Topic: Sukhumvit Hotel

2010-12-28 18:20:52

citadines has a swimming pool, on soi 8, agoda price4s about 1500. pool is small though

In Topic: Anyone Else Having Problems Connecting To Website Abroad

2010-10-21 12:45:22

View PostBoater, on 2010-10-21 12:38:31, said:

View PostRooo, on 2010-10-21 12:18:38, said:

I am having problems with Yahoo for the last few days. that' the only overseas site I basically use.


dont you use Thaivisa Roo, thats an overseas site , server is based in Singapore ( not Thailand )

The past few weeks 3BB and TOT have gone very strange. I found I was able to traceroute to bbc.co.uk in 4 hops on 3BB, so theres obviously something intercepting  traffic at 3BB. Remote desktop has crawled to halt. Most web pages are okay, but stuff like youtube seems problematic, videos on vimeo.com continously buffer. It looks like CAT may be the only sane solution once again - a shame as 3BB were really improving as much as a month ago. Even stuff like overplay.net VPNs that I use are disconnecting frequently.

As for DNS always use 8.8.8.8 (google's public DNS) or opendns.  As for thaivisa hosting in singapore, routes to singapore used to perfect, think sub 100ms pings and max bandwidth on stuff like 3BB Indy / TOT. That's all gone now. I use to route my browsing through a VPS in Singapore (route to singapore and then international from singapore a grade), no longer possible with any reasonable speed (unless maybe with CAT).

I have a feeling that they system they were using to throttle torrents a few months ago (experimentally) are being more liberally applied and possibly in the process of being tweaked, so there may be some light at the end of tunnel, if they get it right.

In Topic: It Mall On / Near Koh Samui

2010-10-21 00:36:10

View PostBirdman, on 2010-10-21 00:01:51, said:

...bought a few months ago a nice Dell laptop there incl. orig. Windows 2007 Home, but the assortment of screens is rather disappointing.


That's because there is no Windows 2007 Home. You got one those super messed up copies. I can see your CC details as you type ;) just kiddin..

Get a genuine copy of Windows, with a genuine product key, active it without a crack, dont use a keygen or blacklisted (or soon to be revoked serial) as you'll have endless problems months or at best a year from now. Its just not worth the hassle, for example Windows Home Premium 7 has everything you need for less than 5000 baht and will be good for at least 5 years (less than 100 baht a month).

In Topic: It Mall On / Near Koh Samui

2010-10-20 10:48:11

Banana IT (at least the one in Chaweng) sell a fair range of off-the-shelf PCs, I think mainly Acer and Asus, and a whole range of laptops. They also sell components. I think when they first opening they were build up stock gradually but at least last week they had a good range of stock and BKK style pricing.

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