Riggi

Hi all,

I am completing a Notice of Intended Marriage form for Australia (I'm Australian and my fiance is Chinese), and part of the form requires a witness.

The witness can be an Australian Consular or Diplomatic Officer or a person holding the following qualification or profession under Australian law:

I use Mach 3 and think that if I see a 4 pack for less than 300 baht, that is s bargain.

One trick I learnt from a barber a long time ago is to use hair conditioner instead of shaving cream. It makes the razor glide very smoothly and also softens the hairs. Plus, you can buy a big supermarket brand pump bottle and it's cheap.

MS have a "Onedrive Troubleshooter" tool.

I have used it before when Onedrive got stuck syncing

It is a program you download and run.

I think there is a different version for Win8 and Win7, so just do a Google search for the version you need.

That might help get your local version of Onedrive up to date with the amount of storage you should have.

Thanks 1sickpuppy.

I am after a white diamond ring though.

Just a simple solitaire ring, less than 1/2 a carat.

Yes, please send me the details of the guy in Mae Sai.

I'm not after anything complicated. Just a simple ring similar to this.

I don't go to Bangkok very often, so a trip just buy one thing would have to be a fairly good saving to make it worthwhile. So, if I can get it in CR, it would be preferable.

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a good/reliable jewelry store in CR where I could get a diamond ring?

Or, am I better off getting one in Bangkok due to price/availability?

Thanks,

Rich

Thanks for all of the info from everyone.

I ended up going with AA Insurance. Good communication via email with numerous quotes and scenarios ran for me. Nice and easy to deal with.

Often it will be the whole domain that is blocked, not individual articles. There was probably another objectionable story published in the past that got the domain blocked.

Why not just put your phone on silent? The notifications will be there when you decide to look at your phone again.

Text messages should come through when you turn your phone back on anyway. Same with line, Facebook, wechat etc.

For missed calls, I think you will need to set up voice-mail. Otherwise, there is no way your phone will know that someone tried to call you.

Maybe a poorly translated instruction manual that said to connect the wire to "dirt"

Thanks guys. Someone at work suggested Syn Mun Kong too.

Hi all,

I bought a new Vios in December last year and the 1 year free insurance is about to expire. Toyota sent me a renewal and it's 20,337 baht, which seems expensive. The insurance is with Viriyah.

I looked at www.gluaygluay.com and found the attached quotes.

Does anyone have any feedback or experience with any of these companies? Particularly in Chiang Rai.

The last one (Thai Paiboon) seems attractive as they are covering 700,000 instead of 480,000 baht, for only 1000 baht more premium. But, I know nothing about this company.

Thanks,

Rich

Congrats on the TX300. Looks nice. If it had an active pen, I would have liked the extra ports and storage space.

I got one like this from eBay a few months ago. I think it was $8usd with free shipping from China. Took about 2 weeks to arrive.

Thanks TL. I did see that and installed it yesterday. Not really much you can do with it at the moment (just choose between OneNote Metro and OneNote Desktop as the default and some slight tweaking to the pressure sensitivity.

I'll keep it installed though to see what future updates to the software might bring.

The 128GB SSD only comes with the i5. the i7 comes with either 256 or 512GB SSD. Prices are in one of the earlier posts. All models include the N-Trig pen. The Type cover was 4500 baht (maybe a bit less). Performance wise, there isn't much difference between the i5 and i7, so I'd choose based on the storage and RAM you need/want.;b++){var>

The i5 256GB plus Type Cover cost me just under 49,000 baht.

Coming from the 128GB, 4GB RAM Surface Pro 1, I decided the extra storage and RAM would be useful. I got down to about 5GB of storage a few times and had to do some cleaning up/archiving. 4GB of RAM is OK most of the time, but sometimes you want a lot of windows open, or running some VST plugins in REAPER and the 8GB is nice to have.

I'm still waiting for Banana IT in Chiang Rai to get my i5 256GB model in.

I'm thinking about cancelling the order.

I just got an Asus vivotab note 8 yesterday and am in the process of installing and setting everything up.

I think it might meet my needs.

Lighter than my original Surface Pro and the wacom pen works well.

Just not sure if the lack of ports will be a problem. I have USB OTG expansion and I have Screenbeam miracast adaptor, but you can't use USB OTG and charge at the same time.

Will put it through its paces this weekend.

Has anyone seen the Asus Vivotab Note 8 in Thailand?

I'm interested in getting it as it seems to be the only 8" windows tablet with a wacom digitiser.

It isn't on the Thai Asus site, but maybe they are just lax with keeping the website up to date.

I don't really want to get it from ebay as there have been some reports of the digitiser playing up and needing to get it fixed by Asus. Hopefully I'll be lucky and not have a problem, but if there is, it will be better to have purchased it locally to avoid any hassles if I have to take it to the Asus repair centre.

Thanks,

Rich

Similar thing happened to me the other week. I get the option to run start up repair, but it can't repair and Windows won't boot.

I was able to boot off a Ubuntu USB stick and I could mount the partions and copy all my data off the D: to an external USB drive.

Trying to format the disk gave an error though. And, GParted wouldn't display the disk information. Haven't had time to mess around any more, but glad I copied my data off.

I did think about taking the 128GB, but knew I'd regret it later.

So annoyed. The staff seem nice enough, but they are pretty clueless and have no means of getting any more info, or couldn't be assed getting any more info.

It was entered into their computer system when I ordered it, and that's when they gave me the date. I'm guessing that someone in Bangkok just put the wrong unit in the box, but who knows.

So, Banana IT called me today and said my SP 3 had arrived. When I got to the store they pulled out a 128GB model.

I showed them my order slip that was printed from the computer system when I ordered it and it clearly states the 256 GB model.

They said that's all they have at the moment, and ask if I want the 128GB model.

I said no, I want the 256GB model, that's why I ordered the 256GB model.

They said they're not sure when they will get the 256GB model, so I have to wait longer.

Not sure if this is a Banana IT or MS stuff up.

"So it's not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8."

This doesn't preclude Apple giving them access to what's on their servers/in the cloud. This only refers to devices that 3rd parties have in their possession, and want to access the data on the device.

If the NSA has the device in their possession, then they probably don't need apple's help to decrypt the data.

If you have access to another pc, make a bootable USB stick with Ubuntu on it.

If the laptop hardware is OK, you should be able to boot from the USB stick.

You can then check if either partition is readable.

If it's just the C: partition that is corrupted, then you may be able to copy the data from the D: to an external USB drive.

If you only have 1 device, then the cloud is not that useful.

If you have a desktop pc, laptop, tablet, mobile phone etc. And want to be able to access your data on all, you either need to carry around a USB drive with everything in it, or use the cloud.

If your files are super top secret, then the physical security of USB is probably the go. But, I prefer the convenience of being able to access the files from any device.

If hackers want to look at my reports and spreadsheets, I think they'll fund them pretty boring. Most of it gets emailed around to different people anyway, which is a lot less secure.

I use Dropbox, Mega, Google drive and OneDrive. I have different files on each. People have reported that Google and MS have deleted files that they deemed to violate their terms and conditions. Some legitimate (like copyright infringement) and some seemingly arbitrary - personal photos that MS deemed inappropriate. From personal experience, I shared a pdf of a book I have with a friend on Google Drive, and google deleted it and sent me a message saying it detected that it was a copyrighted file. Luckily I had a backup elsewhere.

I have been using Dropbox for about 5 years and think it is the best in terms of ease of use and features (can roll back to previous versions of docs, a smart syncing algorithm that only syncs the parts of a file that have changed. My last 2 Samsung phones I got 50GB free storage, but that is expiring soon, so it will drop back down to the 5GB free. In that time, my usage has exceeded the free amount.

Dropbox gives you 2GB free and you can get extra space by enabling auto camera upload from your phone (you can disable it once you have got your free space and keep the free space).

Google and OneDrive give you 15GB free and with OneDrive you can get an extra 3GB by enabling auto camera upload on your phone (again, you can disable once you get your free space).

Dropbox and Google Drive are more expensive. I think about $99 for 100GB.

You get 1TB of storage per user on OneDrive with an Office 365 subscription. So, for 365 Home, you get 5 users with 1TB each for $99 per year.

I have an Office 365 university subscription (used my Thai university email address) which is 2100 baht for 1 user for 4 years (525 baht per year)

So, I have just recently migrated almost everything to OneDrive. I still keep some things on Google and some on Mega depending on what the files are and who I'm sharing with/how I'm sharing.

Google drive is good for collaborating in real time - multiple people can edit a doc at the same time and see changes as the other person types in real time.

For most sharing though, I find OneDrive better. Share a word or Excel file in Google and it opens up in Google docs online viewer, which sucks. You can't change the zoom and if you have multiple excel worksheets, you have to scroll through all of them to get to the one you want. When you share a doc with OneDrive, when someone clicks on the link, it opens up in the web version of office and looks exactly like it looks on your PC (tabbed worksheets in Excel, able to zoom in and out etc.)

They all work pretty much the same - you install the client on your computer and then any files you save in that folder automatically sync.

If you are on Win8, then OneDrive is integrated with the OS, so no need to install anything.

With all of them, you can also set up selective sync, so that it only syncs some files from the cloud. I have many files in the cloud, but only certain folders are synced to my laptop. Some files are there as backups/archives (in conjunction with a physical HDD backup at home.