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How about Pattaya Pete's new place? or The Haven on Soi 13? or La Maison on Soi 13?

The bigger the groan, the better the pun! Thanks!

Yep. It has been many years so I don't remember all the specifics, but when microsoft first bought Hotmail they tried running it on their own operating system, probably a version of NT. It crashed repeatedly and the service was up and down like a yo-yo. Finally, to have any credibility, they ran it on FreeBSD and did so for at least a couple of years, if not longer, until they could get greater stability from their own operating system. They don't call it "mickeysoft" for nothing, you know.

Might be a bit of an overdose. Do you know anyone in LOS or know any "veterans" that will be there at the same time? It really helps to have someone there, on the ground, to show you the ropes. Good Luck.

Ah! Thank you for reminding me. The last time I used Hotmail, a long time ago, but after microsoft bought it and changed it, you had to specifically, each and every time you sent e-mail, tell Hotmail to save a copy to your sent box (or out box). There was no provision for doing it automatically. I don't know if that is still the case.

Sorry, I haven't used Hotmail in years. When microsoft bought the company it went downhill and I closed the account. Perhaps someone here is familiar with Hotmail. Good luck.

What e-mail software are you using? Is the delete button close to the send button?

That story is 3 years old this month. "Last Updated: Monday, 9 May, 2005, 16:57 GMT 17:57 UK" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4528219.stm

Well, as I pointed out over at that "other site" if you buy a ticket on Delta for a trip to BKK you will end up on Korean Air for the longest part of the trip or, perhaps, China Air or EVA Air for the return. Delta has used "codeshare" arrangements for almost all flights to the Orient, since 9/11. The only exception would be if you were to fly out of Delta's hub in Atlanta where they have one flight, but not every day, directly to Seoul (ICN) on one of their own 777-200s. The connecting flight to BKK would be on Korean Air. As they take delivery of more 777-200LRs, 2 out of an order for 8 have been delivered so far, that may change. If the merger with NWA is approved they will, most likely, have more international flights on their own equipment.

In the Philippines it is called, Dinuguan, aka "chocolate meat." Ugh! Can you actually, truthfully call what the British eat, cuisine?

Funny. Thanks.

There have been numerous threads on this subject. You might try using the search function.

Wednesday May 7, 2008 Airbus Dogged By A380 Delays, Factory Sale Trouble May 6, 2008 Airbus suffered a double blow on Tuesday as airlines warned they faced further delays on delivery of the A380 superjumbo and a new hitch developed with the plane maker's cost-saving plans. Dubai airline Emirates, the biggest A380 customer, and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, both said they had received warnings of delivery delays on the world's largest passenger airliner -- which is already two years behind schedule. Airbus confirmed that chief executive Tom Enders had written to all A380 customers telling them production had reached a critical phase. It announced a "major review" of A380 production last week. Separately, in Toulouse, French unions claimed victory in their battle to stop Airbus from selling some factories -- a plan that is part of a major restructuring and job-cutting exercise. The A380, which went into service last year with Singapore Airlines, is heavily bankrolled by state-owned Emirates, which has ordered 58 A380s. "This will do us serious damage," Emirates President Tim Clark said. Deliveries of the A380 have fallen behind schedule after a series of industrial problems since 2005. The reputation of Airbus parent firm EADS is seen at stake as it strives to deliver 13 planes this year. Emirates, the largest Arab carrier, hopes to receive five A380s before the end of March 2009 and another 12 in the year to March 31, 2010. Clark said he will find out in the next two to three weeks whether that schedule is intact. A spokesman for the Abu Dhabi government-owned carrier, Etihad, said it too had received a letter from Airbus indicating that there may be a delay. Etihad has ordered four of the USD$300 million, 525-seat planes. Europe's biggest single industrial project first faced problems in 2006, when A380 sections reached the French assembly plant with wiring flaws that caused production to halt. Airbus blamed the failure of German and French plants to use the same design software, and was forced to start assembling the first 25 planes by threading the 500 km of wiring through each aircraft manually, pushing deliveries back on average 2 years. In a separate development on Tuesday, unions and industry sources in France said plans to sell two factories to attract investment in new lightweight airframe materials were showing signs of unravelling. The news follows the collapse of talks to sell some factories in Germany. The potential double setbacks highlights the internal and external pressures squeezing Airbus parent EADS as Europe's largest aerospace firm tries to hold together its production system while resisting the global financial crisis. A380 production problems are a legacy of internal rivalries, which until recently prevented French and German factories developing a common system for wiring the double-decker jet, hurting political pride in Europe's biggest industrial project. The factory sales were forced on Airbus by pressure from a relentlessly weak dollar, and have been blown off course by another global financial storm, the meltdown in credit markets, which has made it harder for potential buyers to get hold of funds. Problems with the factory sales have raised questions over the planemaker's next project, the EUR10 billion euro mid-sized A350, as Airbus struggles to crank out the A380. Emirates is also the largest single buyer to date of the A350. Airbus is trying to reconcile the demand for engineers to fix the A380 delays and cope with bulging industry order books with growing pressure to cut costs in the face of a weak dollar. The restructuring plan involves 10,000 job cuts and EUR2.1 billion of savings by 2010, as well as factory sales in France, Germany and Britain. The group is in talks to sell 2 plants to Latecoere, a French supplier of fuselage parts and doors. Key to the success of the plan is the ability to outsource costly A350 research. In March Airbus called off talks to sell three German plants to MT Aerospace, blaming the strong euro. It is also in talks to sell a British plant to GKN. Unions officials who asked not to be identified said EADS had been forced to back further away from the factory talks due to concerns over the availability of funds. Latecoere acknowledged changes in the way Airbus wanted to proceed but denied it had any fund-raising problems. (Reuters) http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1210114297.html

They actually deep fry a Mars bar?! What keeps the thing from melting into sludge? Here, just answered my own question: "A deep-fried Mars Bar is an ordinary Mars Bar fried in a type of batter used in the British Isles for fish, black and white pudding, sausage, and often haggis. The Mars Bar is typically chilled before use to prevent it from melting into the frying fat, though a cold Mars Bar can fracture when heated. The dish was initially served at selected chip shops in Scotland as a novelty item, but was never a mainstream item. Since various mass media have reported on the practice since the mid 1990s, in part as an ironic commentary on urban Scotland's notoriously unhealthy diet,[1] the popularity of the dish has spread." More here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

Those photos are very old. I took a tour of The AA hotel 2 years ago and THEN the rooms were so ran down they looked something you might see in a skidrow flophouse. It only can be worst by now.

Great views, but the rooms at the AA Hotel are very "down market," to be polite.

That is one way to do it. Once bought a ticket on Delta, now that was a mistake. It was a code share with 4 different airlines. Korean Air SFO to ICN, Asiana from ICN to BKK, EVA from BKK to TPE, and, finally, China Air from TPE to SFO. Won't be doing that again.

That is typical Singapore Air (SQ) routing. You can't get to BKK on SQ from SFO or LAX without first going to SIN. You can travel to HKG, or TPE, or ICN from SFO, but you still have to go through SIN before going on to BKK.

Now that I can agree with. BTW, over the years there have been many "clones" of Norton's Commander. For Linux users there is "Midnight Commander" which can be ran from a prompt in a console. If you prefer a GUI, e.g., the KDE Desktop, there is "Krusader" which has every file management bell and whistle ever imagined.

That is really a good price for June. The prices start going up the end of May and stay up until mid September. They shoot up again toward the end of November and come right back down a day or two after New Year's Day. The shoot up again just before Chinese New Years and then fall back down and stay there until late May.

The Sunshine Residence Hotel on Soi 8 has a garage.

The first thing I do when a friend asks for help with their computer is to check to see if they have anything from Norton/Symantec installed. Their last good piece of software was the old Norton's Commander. There are much better products available that can do the same job.

NWA has the long haul aircraft (and the slots), plus Delta has ordered 8 B777-200LR (of which 2 have been delivered), so yes, I think they will not only continue to fly into BKK, but they will expand their overseas operations. Edit in, 20 April. Looks like Delta also has 23 Boeing 787 aircraft on order. "Delta Eyes Northwest's 787 options: Order already placed? On January 14, Boeing received an order for 23 787-8 Dreamliners from a single unidentified customer. A source close to the airframer tells FlightBlogger that the unidentified customer was Delta Air Lines. The source explained that the order was contingent on the announcement of a merger. Coincidentally enough, according to Flight's ACAS database, the oldest members of Delta's widebody fleet happen to be 767-300s. How many 767-300s does Delta operate? You guessed it: 23. Delta's 767-300s (non-extended range) have the highest number of average cycles in the widebody fleet at nearly 25,000 per aircraft. These aircraft are ripe for replacement, especially with oil well over $100 a barrel. Delta has never made any secret of its desire to replace its 767s with 787 aircraft. Ed Bastian, President and CFO of Delta, commented during Tuesday's merger press conference that, "Our existing order books on the 777-LR and the 787, along with the new markets this combination will provide us opportunity to exercise options for up to 20 additional widebody jets between 2010 and 2013, creating a world of opportunity for our customers." Northwest holds rights to 50 options on its 787 order that made it the North American launch customer for the type. Delta does not currently hold any options on its firm order for 8 777-200LRs. This suggests that if the merger goes through, the additional widebody options exercised would be exclusively from Northwest's 787s." http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/

It is widely known to be considered a fuel problem. Here, probably more than you wanted to know: http://www.flightglobal.com/search/zibbsea...words=777+crash One of the more recent articles: "DATE:14/03/08 SOURCE:Flightglobal.com Fuel system tests continue following 777 crash landing By David Learmount Following the British Airways Boeing 777 crash landing at London Heathrow airport, the manufacturer says it is testing the fuel system upstream of the high-pressure engine fuel pumps to try to replicate what may have happened on 17 January when the engines failed to respond to demands for increased power shortly before touchdown. Boeing's chief pilot flight operations safety division Capt Dave Carbaugh says the fact that the fuel pumps, according to the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), had been cavitating not long before the impact might indicate a restriction in the fuel flow to the pumps, whether as a result of ice crystals in the fuel or a low-temperature change in fuel viscosity. The manufacturer says it is working with the AAIB to try to find the reason for the possible fuel flow restriction by replicating a range of conditions in the fuel lines, and measuring the results. Meanwhile senior BA 777 captains say there have been no operational advisory notices applied to the 777 fleet since the accident. The event occurred at 720ft (220m) on final approach to Heathrow's runway 27L, and the aircraft was forced to descend steeply to land about 350m short of the runway end. http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/...sh-landing.html

You just answered your own question. The key word is "all." Go back and re-read the second paragraph of what I quoted in post #715.