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Konini

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  1. Just an oddity - today I got an email from Immigration telling me my 90 day report was due. Mr K didn't get one and I did it online for both of us, I think I did his first. The only difference is that he is the main visa holder and I am on spouse Non-O. Anyway, nice to get a reminder BUT we've just come back from overseas and don't need it, so obviously the 90 day report section of immigration doesn't get up to date info on people going out/into the country. It really wouldn't be so hard to link the data, but hey - what do I know.
  2. Slightly off-topic, please forgive me. Is anyone else having problems with Bangkok Bank internet banking? I haven't been able to get on to for days, after logging in I get a page telling me it's unavailable - tried a couple of other browsers, same same. No problems with the phone app, just the net banking.
  3. Does anyone know if this has to be done in person? Can Mr K take his and my certificate and passport. Expecting important documents mailed from overseas so one of us has to stay home in case it comes. For some reason Australia doesn't use the standard tracking that the rest of the world does; I have a tracking number, and it's in the correct format (two letters, eight numbers, country code) but as always when I enter it there's no such number in the tracking system.
  4. I didn't delete the system reserved partition, I'll have a go at that later, thanks for the suggestion; nothing I've read mentioned it. Tried burning a ISO with autounattend from Rufus and from Media Creation tool then copied autounattend.
  5. It's called sharing an anecdote - I was replying to someone not in Chiang Mai so not giving an average cost here, but that didn't seem to incur any wrath. Perhaps I just got unlucky. || Or have you posted on the wrong topic again? Again? It's been a long time since I posted, I tend not to any more because of general unpleasantness.
  6. Aw, I thought there'd be an easier way out. I can boot to the bios OK, but when it restarts to Windows install there's only the broken screen (monitor drivers install part way through installation) so unfortunately that one's out. Option 2 involves work - haven't opened the beast so far , but if I stuff it up I'm looking at replacing a big SSD as well as the screen. The other partitions are jam packed so I'd rather not do that if I can avoid it, but.. thinking out loud now... If I can get the disk to boot to one of the other laptops' screens rather than to the monitor via hdmi which needs a video driver I could install as normal (I wipe the partition and reinstall every few months) then put it back without formatting the other partitions. Actually, this might be the way to go. Thanks for pointing my mind in the right direction. EDIT: D'oh! I have a 500gb SSD that I'm not using at the moment, with a bit of luck there'll be enough room inside to add it as an extra disk. Even if not, I've got an enclosure casing for it (somewhere) that I could probably use as my O/S disk. Why didn't I think of that? (Unless I'm overlooking something really obvious, please feel free to chip in. It's late, I'm tired and my not figuring this out hours ago without becoming one of 'those kind of people' means I really am getting too old to be messing with stuff like this; I don't want to fix the screen unless there's no other option. Doubly so as it's still under warranty so I'd invalidate that unless I take it to HP which will cost a small fortune).
  7. Ha! I can better that one; 17or 18 years ago I became the owner of an $1,800 hole. I'd had a root canal/post and crown done on a back tooth in the late 1980's and it went quite badly wrong, ending with lot of pain and 23 stitches following a surgical extraction (which I was never charged for so I can only assume they stuffed it up). I really didn't want to go down that route again, but my (new) dentist was so nice; he convinced me that I should try to save it and that I'd just been really, really unlucky and lightning doesn't strike twice and anyway, he wasn't going to attempt to do it himself - he knew a top rate orthodontist, and he wouldn't have gotten to be in a 30th floor office in Collins Street if he wasn't really, really good at what he did. I should have listened to the thunder that was starting to rumble. A few weeks later when I went to my GP in a very bad way, having lost 20kg (even if I had had an appetite I physically couldn't eat) she looked at the 10 day course of antibiotics Mr Top End of Town had given me (TWICE) and, shaking her head, said 'Was he an older man? (Nope, younger than me). We don't use those for this kind of infection any more'.
  8. I've seen them in RImping Meechok occasionally. Mr K worked there for a lot of years; he would never eat one. Tried one on his first day and then went 13 years without tasting another. Take from that what you like... Many moons ago he made something that automated the switching of wrapping plastic. He was left with an open mouth when a Choice/Which magazine test was published in The Age. All of the different pies were taste tested and graded, various store home brands, 4'n20, Herbert Adams - all of which came out of the plant in Kensington via his quick wrapper change thingie. When I couldn't be bothered to make pastry, the only ones he would eat from the freezer were Big Ben, but I've never seen them here. Different ones in the freezers in the supermarkets, suck it and see. Sausage King pies are decent, to be honest they're the only ones I've tried here. Mr K agrees, and says UN Irish aren't too bad but the ones at Kaseem are just gravy sandwhiches and not great tasting. I've seen Sausage King in Tops and I think Big C Extra or you can have a tootle out to San Sai. Delivery is available but only worth it if you're stocking up - if you are, his pork and leek sausages are amazing. I've been perfecting my recipie for them this year, and can't get close enough to pass the test. (Mr K gets a fancying for a pie every now and again and doesn't rest until he gets one, either home made or bought. The pastry gives him heartburn. Every. Time.)
  9. I broke the screen of a laptop (it's a spare, hooked up to a monitor). Don't have a pressing need to fix it (expensive touch screen) and it runs perfectly, but I need to do a full reinstall of Windows. I'm testing it out on another laptop before commiting myself, both are HP's of a very similar model/age. Having to do an autoinstall as the monitor driver doesn't kick in unti the setup is about half way through. I've tried everything in my armoury and a couple of things Google told me to, but I just can't get the unattended.xml to catch at boot - got the answer file from a website and wrote my own in ADK, tried having it done as MBR and UEFI, changed the usb to GPT. Nothing working. I have a feeling it's something to do with the partition - I have the O/S isolated on drive C:/. The answerfile has provision for disk and partition numbers, both triple checked to be ok. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm probably going to wait to do the broken one until the new version comes out next week, but I'd like to be ready to go. (I'm getting too old for this. There was a time when I would have taken this in my stride, enjoyed the challenge of solving it even. Now I just can't be bothered so have become one of those people who just ask - at least I spent a couple of hours on it first).
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