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MrGaoMungGawn

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  1. Thank you for your Lastpass suggestion, and I am just about to choose this one. I just want to make sure I choose the correct one at the beginning, because I would really get irked if I chose the wrong one, and then had to start over from the beginning after changing horses in mid gallop while fording a stream and jumping the fence.

    Here are two links to some review comps done by Life Hacker and InformationWeek (I like InfoWeek, since their postings years ago about OS2).

    As I noted, Lastpass looks really good.

    Tonight, or should I say this morning, I need to change to using a password manager, so I think I will either use Lastpass with its 12 dollars per year premium software offer, or the free opensource offering, whichever seems to offer most.

    http://www.informationweek.com/security/risk-management/10-top-password-managers/d/d-id/1109759?

    Very nice short review of what can be had

    http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/review-7-password-managers-windows-mac-os-x-ios-and-android-189597

    One more for good measure

    http://lifehacker.com/5529133/five-best-password-managers

    After the password manager issue is settled,

    I will hack some of the chastity belts around here, maybe.

    But will not report, at least not on this subforum.

  2. That was the gas I was trying to think of, Nitrogen. (not Helium)

    But why it would not expand as much as any other gas, I either did not learn, or I forget.

    Because as I recall temperature varies with the inverse of something, acoring to Boyle's Law:

    Which I forget, too.

    1. I am not so sure you are correct about it not expanding as much as other gasses.

    2. I think it is just a denser gas, so then it must have better properties for inflating tyres.

    (Someone should check out this question and report, because i do not know, but now find it interesting.)

    3. You ARE right about tire pressure being critical for proper handling of all bicycles and cars., for braking, and cornering, and ride comfort. A lot of research and design work goes into tire construction.

    This is a very interesting topic, actually.

  3. My smartphone loses power pretty fast if I use it for anything but simple sending and receiving for phone calls.

    I use one of those battery managers (the one with the "easy talk killer plugin"), but my battery is soon depleted if I use it for WiFi with maps, or surfing web for info, or any of a number of things I need to do with the phone and the web.

    I am using a small smartphone, not one of those giant bricks.

    It is just a cheap Acer Z130,

    But it is pretty nice for the money.

    My question is:

    What can I do to take my phone out where I go, and use it from dawn to dusk, surfing the web when I need to, using Line calls or Skype when i need to, and still having enough juice at the end of the day.

    I would like to be able to use this phone for 8 hours, but I don't think this is possible if I want to use WiFi, or use 3G for web work.

    1. Would it be best to just carry a few extra batteries? But I don't like the nail breaking work of changing batteries, although not so bad as changing diapers.

    Extra batteries are not that expensive, I guess, so this would be a solution.

    2. What about buying a larger battery that I could carry with me. I would not mind carrying a 250 gram battery around with me, which is only a fraction of the weight of a good text book.

    How can you find something like this? If I had a car battery, I know how to connect the phone to that.

    But are there any fairly light batteries with a plug that hook up to your phone and let you use it with abandon for a whole day of heavy use? I think this would be the best solution.

    3. Are there any really fast chargers with a plug so that when I have an extra 5 minutes at the train station, the airport, or the Seven, I can just plug in and get a 90% charge in a couple of minutes? I think you can do this with some type of technology that may be available.

    4. What are the other options?

    Tks.

    Mr. Gao.

  4. Buy a bicycle pump and a decent air pressure gauge. Pump it at home above the recommended psi, then release it down to the right pressure. In fact, this is more accurate since the tyre is still cold. Doing it at the petrol pump assuming there is an accurate gauge there, means you will be riding it there and that will not be right. The variance can be 3-4 psi.

    You, sir, are a physicist after my own heart.

    These important things of life,

    Too few understand,

    Since they refuse to like science or study science, especially if they are among the underclass, which is now the majority, in America, I am afraid.

    I wish it were not so, and it used to be that Americans were better educated, but what you say is of course correct, that the temperature can make quite a bit of difference in pressure.

    Here in Thailand, the pressure at night can vary from the daytime temperature by about 20 degrees C, and also the riding of the bike adds another few degrees. This is why you should probably check your tyre pressure more frequently than most of us do, I imagine.

  5. buy a bicycle tire pump.

    Really comes in handy if you have a slow leak.

    Pump it up and drive to service place.

    if you can't air up your tires at a station then maybe riding a motorbike is too complicated a task.

    Another fine comment, sir.

    Those little plastic tire gauges seem to work fairly well.

    And, when we had bikes, we always kept a foot and leg musckel operated pump.

    Bicycles need higher pressure than car tires, of course.

    You could hire someone at the garage to fill your tyres if you like.

    Probably any of a number of kids milling around the garage would find it fun,

    And funny to help you for free, though.

    Look at that Farang on the bike.

    Etc, Etc, Etc.

  6. OK, Folks,

    Chiang Mai Folks, anyway:

    I found some tea you might like to try, but it is not the Chinese tea that I am used to from Taiwan.

    Still, it is worth a sip or two, I think.

    This is the Thai Green Tea, probably coming out of the mountains in Chiang Rai.

    It is offered from the Royal Project store at CMU agriculture faculty.

    This is a very nice little shop, and they have about three or four varieties of tea in hard paper square packaging, which I prefer to metal tins (as they say in the UK), or canisters, as they said when fighting world war one in the trenches, when they lobbed canisters of chlorine and phosgene gas, and this was the time, down in those trenches, when a good strong cup of black tea really hit the spot, and took ones mind off the rats running back and forth.

    So why not head over there to the Royal Project store at CMU, and try some of their tea,

    The cost is about 150 to 300 Baht for 200 grams, and they do offer something they call Oolong tea, but I have no idea what it really is, maybe WuLong.

    If anyone has already tried this, then please let me know.

    I find that this tea actually has some life to it,

    And does not taste dead, but somewhat alive, which is the way tea should be,

    As you know.

    Thanks.

  7. If you use KDE, then you know the password manager that is so persistent that it will drive the mild mannered to distraction.

    I won't mention names because I don't want to influence the best suggestion:

    What is the best solution to being bombarded with password requests from almost everywhere, and I mean everywhere, except my wife's chastity belt, and I don't have a wife, so that is why.

    I do have a couple of PCs, two linux, one windows, and one Laptop.

    Then one Android Tablet, and One Android Phone

    All of these machines require passwords, and then you have Line, WeChat, Skype, I have 6 or 7 email accounts, Webhosting account, with unlimited number of email address and each with its own password, then you have the WiFi here at this building, and I need a seperate WiFi password and username for each device and each computer, and then there is the Gmail for my folks with passwords, and the Amazon password, and I have my password to get out of Jail when I play Monopoly, and I have a code to open the door, and none work off biometrics interfaces.

    Can Someone Here help please, by telling us the best solution we should follow to simplify these many passwords down to one or two? And what about the banking and credit card passwords.

    On KDE we are offered one password manager and GNOME offers another.

    What we need is some password manager that we can take with us where ever we go on the internet, or on our computers, or on our encrypted files:

    What Is The Solution Please.....

    Is there a very good way to just carry around in our heads one password and username which will open every device, file, or pandoras box if we like?

    Thank you, I am hoping to set this up as soon as possible, because I now have passwords coming out of my ears.

    (I want to start by using a Linux based solution, which will also unlock and lock securely everything else on the net)

  8. The other thing I was thinking, besides how complicated it seems to remove pulse, is that there must be in the linux community among contributors and developers an unhelpful feeling of snobbery directed against people who use multimedia together with computers. Maybe this is a carry over from the days when these people spent their time almost exclusively with servers, networking, and research related tasks. Maybe they have long felt that multimedia and computers is just an oddity, a toy for the ungifted users who don't have interest in just the code for important tasks.

    But this attitude just will not fly any longer. And linux community members must work together in a more efficient way to solve things like easy installation of audio, and easy changes to audio, because the average user now routinely wants to plug and unplug an ever increasing number of audio and video devices.

    Maybe companies like Logitech and Microsoft Skype and Adobe Acrobat need to treat the linux community with the respect it does deserve.

  9. The OP has moved on to another of his.............fatty thingy threads.........rolleyes.gif

    I can handle multiple threads mate.

    Sent from my Lenovo S820_ROW using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

    Exactly, JingThing and you are the real thing.

    But,

    I have often wondered aloud how many computer monitors you have hooked up to your box.

    I always figured you must have about 3 or 4 GPUs and 8 30-inch Apple monitors, if they even make them that big.

    What is the maximum number of unlrelated comments you can post in under a minute, I mean complex comments of more than 30 words?

    And, you seem to never sleep, like Napolean or something.

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  10. I just happened to think that some of you may not be quite like me, in that I like to choose my friends at random,

    Like a TV Gump.

    For example, if you look at my profile, you will see a conglomeration of friends, none of whom I know.

    I like it this way, because one should not play favorites.

    My strategy is to go to the TV main forum directory and see who is online at the bottom of the web page.

    You can see red blue and black names, as well as a few green ones.

    I don't bother, too much, with choosing from the colored ones, and I do not choose the black ones, such as Googlemediapartners to post on my friends profile. because I do not think they would appreciate being selected.

    I just take one or two from the first row, a few from the other rows, and then go to the profiles and add them as friends.

    And it occurred to me that some of you might utilize a different methodology when you make your choices.

    If so, then how do you choose?

    Mr.. Gao

    note: I do tend to prefer either the bland gray avitars or the more interesting one, like this Mrs Taiwan, for example. The grays offset the brightly colored ones.

    Thank you.

  11. Pawn

    Pawnbroker redeemed

    PS - are you allowed to respond to your own word? Dinae think so. But hey? Did the original OP make any rules - too long ago to check & to be honest who TF cares?

    Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

    I would say that, in general, such a thing is inadvisable,

    However, in this case I hope to be forgiven because I had thought that everyone was missing a nice opportunity to see that redeeming and pawn's connection must be, as I had originally intended, the 1964 film, one that scared me when I was a young teen.

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