Greetings from Thailand

[vaughan]

Hello AMD Users team mates,

I have arrived in Bangkok. Wow, its hot and humid here :!:
34C and the humidity must be 90% or more.

I did a city tour yesterday and saw lots of temples. Must have seen hundreds of Buddhas - golden Buddha, reclining Buddha, variations on a theme of every other sort of Buddha too :shock:

My notebook drained two batteries on the 9.5 hour flight but I have found a plug gender changer so I have plugged my adapter in to mains power and can re-charge the notebook now. Fortunately Thailand uses 220V 50Hz so all I required was a plug that would fit the Australian 3 pin design.

Currently I'm logged on a the Baxter Healthcare trade stand at the conference I'm attending. They are kind enough to sponsor 9 internet terminals for the delegates to use.

On checking my stats I can see that my farm is alive and well back home. Doomeva must have been looking after the computers - thanks son - or we haven't had any power failures recently. One possible scenario to think of is maybe it was the HP laptop that was causing the power outages!

I have read the pleas for help in uFluids - there are 3 tasks I have completed and well report when I return. Not impressed with these silly short SOB tasks - its crunched already on the P4 and is also waiting to connect. Lagu I'm helping with some D2OL tasks as I have >1,000 cached to work through. Jeff and Daddygeek, I might get a chance to do some TSC tasks too.

Time to log off now,

Happy Crunching guys,

Vaughan

[NeoGen]

Hey Vaughan

Have a great stay there and enjoy the weather!

If inbetween buddhas and temples you spot some computer shops, check on the AMD's prices too. (ok, and P4's just for comparison :P) I wonder how much they charge on that side of the world.

[Empty_5oul]

enjoy your trip :D

[gamer007]

Hope your having a nice time over there.

[vaughan]

Most items are priced better in Australia. Very few shops have X2 cpus. One place I visited was a 6 story hive of human activity and thousands of small shops and kiosks selling computer gear, camera, electronic games, etc. A shop there had an X2 3800 for the equivalent of $565 - I can get one in Sydney for $495, so no bargain. There are lots of guys selling pirate software and DVDs. They burn the CD or DVD for you while you wait!
I found a shop that specialised in cooling hardware - water collers, CPU hsfs, notebook coolers, graphics card coolers. Great fun to see eveything on display.
I was tempted to buy an ASUS A8N - SLI Premium m/b but on calculating the exchange rate it was no cheaper than back in Oz. Instead I settled for a 1 GB usb flash drive and a PSP with some games.