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Thank you for your kind words, gentlemen. I have worked some hours on this... and I enjoyed it! I have a minor (?) request: could you please show your appreciation for this howto by adding some points to my account? While my hosting request has been kindly approved by our dear leader I am stuck at 31,25 points and my guess would be that this howto should be worth another two or three points ;)TIA,curare

I use the option of a fixed swap file size and having 1 Gig RAM, I only allow 500 Megs of swap file. Memory is never full, even with 55 processes runing. I personally would strongly recommend to limit the swap file size. Otherwise it is not only occupying too much space on the HD, but also putting too much data in the swap file instead of keeping it in the RAM.

Let's suppose you are using two network settings with your laptop frequently. Wether it's a wireless or wired network, all the same: Every time you want to change the IP, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS Server(s) of your network connection in any flavour of Windows, you have to click through menus, submenus, and from that you go to yet another submenu... you have been there, it's awful. There is a better way: the command "netsh" on your command prompt can change all the aforementioned settings, and if you put them in a batch file, you can change them with a double mouse click. To familiarize yourself with the command, click on "Start/Run" and enter "cmd". The command prompt opens. Enter "netsh /?" and you'll see the options and parameters of this powerful command and its subsets. Open your network connections folder in the Control Panel. Windows usually calls the Network Interface Card "Local Area Connection" If you want to change the settings of your wireless network settings go to the appropriate status window. Make sure you know the name. Click on it, than click "Properties" and there double-click "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" This is where you usually go when you change those settings. Now open your text editor and create a new file which you will call "Connection_settings_1.bat", or whatever is easily memorable and you associate with your settings # 1. Enter the following code: netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" source=static addr=111.222.333.444 mask=255.255.255.255netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" gateway=555.666.777.888 gwmetric=0netsh interface ip set dns name="Local Area Connection" source=static addr=999.111.222.333 netsh interface ip add dns name = "Local Area Connection" addr = 444.555.666.777 Of course you must enter the numbers if the IP, subnet mask, gateway and DNS Server(s) according to your settings! As most of you know, 111.222.333.444 is just an example of an actually non-existing IP address. Save the file. Assuming that your connection settings #2 are different, say with DHCP, than create another batch file and name it differently from the first. netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" dhcpnetsh interface ip set dns name="Local Area Connection" dhcp Save the file. If you need WINS you should enter the code netsh interface ip set wins name="Local Area Connection" source=static addr= . . . at the end of the batch files(s) with the correct settings instead of the dots. Now test your new batch files. When you double-click on one, a command prompt window opens and the batch file is processed line by line. This takes some time (25 seconds in my case with a 2.8 GH Intel Processor), it is not done instantly. When the processes are finished the window closes. To check if the settings are applied correctly, open a command prompt and entee "ipconfig". Than double-click on the second batch file and after it is finished put the command prompt where you entered "ipconfig" in focus and enter "ipconfig" again. The settings have changed with one double-click! A final note: Yes, there is little proggies which do this job as well. One of them is even free. But you can do it without launching any extra program, using the built - in capabilities of your operating system. curare

Thanks, brother! See my PM to you regarding my future plans. But returning to the subject, the question is not "general internet access in Ayutthaya", it's citizens networks in Tahiland, especially in Ayutthaya province. I have been searching the web over and over for initiatives regarding this subject matter, so far without success. Therefore I took the chance to post this message here, as I have done in some other forums and mailing lists which cater to this subject more specifically. I was just trying here too. Public Internet Access in Thailand is truly abundant. You stumble over Internet CafÊs everywhere. This has not been always so. Four years ago, Ayutthaya had two (2) access points with a double ISDN line each, that's 128 Kilobits. Bandwith and reliability of service of Internet CafÊs varies widely, but as I am in no hurry I take my time to shop around. If I want to hook up my notebook, things become more complicated already and the choices narrow. Many ppl who run Internet CafÊs flatly deny this service - unfortunately. Looking into the future from a personal perspective, I would like to provide my two daughters and later my son, when he'll get interested - he's still too young for that - with Internet access from home. As mentioned already, the next telephone post is about two miles away; we COULD get a line to the house - at a cost. Last estimate was around 100.000 Baht, that's around ⏠2.000.- I am a European, and I take the spoiled European perspective that in times like ours it should be the government's responsibility to provide the populace with telephone, and subsequently, internet access. Thailand and many other developing countries have a long way to go in this respect. Citizen's networks provide for the heavily embattled "last mile", they are democratic, cheap and effective. As things are today, you can get a High School degree wirthout Internet access, but it's easier if you have one. My girls can access the internet at school in a very limited way. I would like to provide them with a home access. The neighbours would be grateful as well. The sense of community would grow. The "knowledge society" would become one tiny step more real. So please, please, if you ever stumbled over a website catering to this matter with regards to Thailand, post the link here! TIA, curare

Very well, qwijibow! You might have gotten the impression that I am out to bash on Linux. I am not - I just reported the things that annoyed me most after a short time of usage. There are a lot of things I really enjoy when working with my newly set up ubuntu 5.10: 1) The look and feel is fantastic. No unnecessary clutter (I'm not so sure though if I would say the same thing had I set up KDE), clean, clear, effective, minimalistic interface. There is a German word, "Anmutung"; the translation into English is "impression", but "Anmutung" is more that that, a combination of look & feel and impression. This is great in GNOME. 2) No stupid questions asked. "Do you really want to" do this or that? I saw this question really only appear in critical actions, and an explanation of the action's consequences came with it. Well done. 3) As a Windows user of 12 years I am habitually trained and therefore addicted to clicking. But apt-get is probably the best command I ever encountered at any command prompt. No searching some confusing websites, making sure it's the most recent version you are downloading, again no stupid questions, no agreeing to EULA's written by some insidious lawyers, nothing, just doing what you told the system to do: Get the app and install it. Fantastic, nothing less. It'll take a long time, even if I study ferociously until I'll have reached your level of aptitude to "have complete controll, to re-program, recompile, re-configure the kernel. Have everything working exactly the way i want it." Have mercy with me, Linux-Geeks! One gotta start somewhere. Still, IMHO, the first step (actually starting to get into it) is a very important one, maybe even the most important one. Hopefully this time 3 posting points , curare

Hi all, I have been a contributing member of https://www.funkfeuer.at/ in Vienna/Austria. FunkFeuer is a citizen's network, run by the people for the people. The website is partly in English, first language in Austria being German. Soon, at the end of November, I'll transfer to Thailand like in every European winter, as my wife is from there, and we have a house in Ayutthaya. My question is: are there similar communities in Thailand, preferrably in Ayutthaya? Web access can get difficult in developing countries, you know, especially if you have no access to a fixed line, like in the case of me and my wife. The next telephone post is 2 miles away... And cell phone based systems, although available in that area, are way too expensive. Citizen's Networks have a great future, especially in bridgeging the digital divide, as can be seen in Philadelphia right now. Even more important it is for developing countries which in many cases do not have the infrastructure we all too often take for granted. I don't want to just get easy access for myself in Ayutthaya, I want to contribute to the dissamination of Citizen's Networks in Thailand. Why do I ask here of all places? Because I know that one of the mods her, actually the nicest of all is located in Petchaburi. But there may be more ppl reading this who know about the subject - so please post what you know! curare

I really enjoyed reading this article. Not though because I agree with it. It has a very nice way of saying that Linux is better than Windows because it is a completely different thing. Agreed... as long as they both still belong into the category of "operating systems". As has been posted here already, it mainly depends for what you use your PC. Me, for one, uses his PC for absolute 100% middle-of-the-road standard applications, slightly favouring VoIP calls (SIP, not this Skype thingie), instant messaging with video, watching divx movies, listening to music, etc. Nothing special, right? Been using a PC since 1993 and online since 1994. Due to my recent involvment with citizens networking and mesh routing protocols used in these networks I gave Linux another try. Had to, more or less, pressure from the CoP [Community of Purpose] I am involved with. They of course are all Linux Geeks. Tried ubuntu 5.04 - didin't like the hardware it was supposed to run on. Tried Suse 9.3 - worked, but I didn't like the GUI, even under GNOME. Tried ubuntu 5.10 - works well. Time to look around and lear, learn, learn. Some appz have a lousy GUI; For a Windows user, sometimes it takes a while to find out how to do standard things, but is manageable, even fun sometimes. Video Chat? No have. SIP-based VoIP? Sipgate Lite and practically nothing else. Gaim can't do it although it says it can. Install a new video driver for a standard video card? A nightmare. Dual Monitor support? No have. These are just the things that bother me most after 10 days of running it. But those problems are not going to go away soon. Where's the appz? Give me Eyebeam Pro on Linux and I'll change my mind. And give me a couple of hundred hours to find out how this all worx. Just my 2 posting points curare

Hi,I have been using PHP Nuke as well as postNuke now for years. FB has his own way of doing things and while I understand perfectly well that he needs to make a living like everyone else, his concept of "delayware" as it has been described in an other post of this fine board, is something you either like or not. I am not a developer, nor a coder, I take a user's perspective. Yeah, ppl, there *is* still this kind of guy around who wants nothing else but just use this piece of software. I remember very well the hot flame wars, the forks, all the different developments of these long gone days. And it seems to me, that things go better if there is a large group of people working in a project. Especially the speed of bug elimination is awesome when it comes to postNuke. Four eyes see more [errors] than two and a hundred eyes... you know what I mean. I give FB credit though for still holding on to his concept. Just my 2 cents, curare

Hi,I am not in the position nor do I have the time to analyze your site as profoundly as guy did. Nevertheless I want to let you know my personal impression of your website. I'd like to mention that I have no relationship with the topic of the website. I surf a lot and I look about 90% for content, not so much layout, style, etc. Having said that, I THINK IT LOOKS AWESOME. It smoothly transcends the look and feel of silent movies and the time we associate with it, while it has a mimimalistic setup. I like simple setups a lot. I am no expert on left-bound versus centered paragraphs, and I can't judge if a slightly different gradient would make this or that impression. As guy will certainly agree the most important thing is the first impression a visitor gets. It's the first one or two seconds, the visceral thing that decides wether you'll go on looking around the site. For me, your site works very well in that respect.Another thing I like about the site is that you let your fine work speak for itself. Not too much explanation, no blabla. The visitor is therefore forced to dig into it himself, and that will keep him on the site if he is interested. He doesn't have to wade through endless explanatory texts. To sum it up, here are my 2 cents: COOL curare

Well, I'd say delayware is some kind of SW which's last version is delayed for release for people not willing to pay for it.

With all due respect, the instructions are necessarily quite long. While I certainly am happy to have it all explained in one place together, I would like to ask: What message does it send to a new member like me (this is my first post) if you have to wade through an explanation that long, with so many ifs and if nots?Are we here to collect credits only by brown-nosing the ones in charge in order to get credits or are controversial views permitted?