triffid

Thai Airways allows up to 30kg's now not the 20 they previously limited it to for international flights out of BKK.

I think this is for those with a 'silver' thai air card - not for all and sundry.

Kasem Store has been making it for years.

Thank you I shall go there. Pass it all the time but the parking on that street being impossible I tend to not stop, but will get around he problem now.

Hi

Can someone tell me where i can buy good quality crunchy granola that's made locally using good ingredients - if also organic so much the better? I just looked at Rimping but couldn't find any such. The manager said she gets it from time to time but I'm hoping someone knows a shop that stocks it consistently.

Yes, the cool box has the cable/connector to the car socket. However I bought it more for use at home for my chocolates and similar which are not best kept in the very cold temperatures of a fridge. And that's why I bought also the convertor which takes the cig lighter type socket at one end and has a cable to connect to the mains.

As I said everything was working fine and some days later it isn't. I think fr some reason both cool box and convertor have broken down. So I want this confirmed and then mended if possible.

Hi. I just did a search of this forum with the above two words wit no result. Can anyone recommend a a reliable electrical check/repair shop in Pantip Plaza? I bought a cool box and a convertor (240v to 12v) very recently which worked fine for a day a two and then stopped. I want to have the two items checked separately to see which is broken - or maybe both are - and to mend if possible or sell me a replacement. (My first port of call was Anorn but they said they couldn't even check for some 4 days and themselves suggested I try Pantip).

I live in Chiangmai where there is a supposedly official/sanctioned Applecare shop. However over the years I have lost confidence in their competence, and most certainly their service, speed, courtesy and English are all abysmal. But I do go to Bangkok reasonably often and I was wondering if anyone could refer or recommend an Applecare shop there. (Wasn't sure if this or the Bangkok forum was the right place for this query but I'm trying here to start with). Many thanks.

Haven't read every single post, but a few that I did read do allude to the essential point about DNA testing, namely that both samples being tested for a match must be authentic. Though the new DNA samples from suspects can be taken independently there seems no independent evidence of the authenticity of the DNA said to be taken from the victims' bodies.

CCleaner is useles and more danger than helpful on a Mac. So wouldn't use it at all. Try to repair your file permissions via the disk utility app. Helps often and give you back better performance. Also check your activity monitor to see any background processes or apps that maybe take more resources than needed.

I have now done the repair thing. Can you please explain in layman's terms what and how about checking 'activity monitor'?

1)In your utilities folder ther is a program called 'activity monitor': start the program.

2) near the bottom there are 5 buttons select "system memory"

3) you will see

VM size:

Page ins:

Page outs:

Swap used:

If the last 2 are not 0 then your Mac is slowing down. Restart it.

FWIW after a restart mine are

VM size: 196.12 GB

Page ins: 287.8 MB

Page outs: 0

Swap used: 0

Before

VM size: 196.12 GB

Page ins: 19.8 GB

Page outs: 0

Swap used: 0

Woodworker, thanks for that guidance.

I opened the utilities folder, opened the activity monitor, but could go no further because I could see no button called 'system memory'. Instead I see five buttons near the top, not the bottom, of the window called CPU, Memory, Energy, Disk, Network.

One small change I've noticed in my Mac's functioning since the problem: when I click on a link on a webpage I'm reading the clicked/linked page's url pops up in the address box but to now get to see the page itself I have to click the refresh button or hit the return. So it takes two actions instead of the one - no big deal but I was wondering why....

Gentlemen, thanks you all for your efforts to help.

My Macbook is now performing fine.

I did do the repair-disk. I changed my history delete from two weeks down to daily. I have no idea if that had anything to do with the initial problem. Or if the problem was the broken cable that has been mentioned. The fact that the problem came up very suddenly argues for the latter. But I'm glad to have done the disk repair as there seemed to be plenty needing repair - 4 minutes and a long list in the reporting box.

So thanks again.

What ISP are you using? Cable. DSL, Mobile Aircard?

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Connecting to international website problems (using True)

Started by Cheops, 2014-08-31 -- 12 replies

Internet almost at a standstill

Started by petedk, 2014-09-16 -- 112 replies

I have Truemove and my home Apple time capsule wifi

Both of my Macbook Pro's have had slow Internet connections for the last several days, especially when connecting to websites in Europe and the Americas. The Thai websites are very fast. So I guess it has to do with the international cables, as suggested earlier, or with the servers. It certainly has nothing to do with the computers, since both of them show the same symptoms. I use Safari and Firefox.

Some body else has mentioned this, and there could be something to it. Facebook worked fine or at least much much better than other sites. Thaivisa was bad bad. I have only Safari.

Triffid, it is possible for a mac to get a virus but very unlikely. There are at least 3 programs you can run Avira has the best review.

I've been a Mac user for years have at least one mac on the net 24/7/365 another often on the net, down load stuff, go anywhere, etc. I never have A/V running. I do run an A/V program once every 2 or 3 years. They find windows viruses in my email, I've never found a Mac virus.

Any virus that slows browsing will slow everything. As others have said,

1) is the Mac slow, no -> 2

It is slow how much free disk space? Less than 20%: may be the problem. How many programs in memory? lots: may be the problem. Check Page and Swap used outs using Activity Monitor, lots: it is the problem. Quit programs you are not using or buy more memory.

2)try a different browser, slow then probably the net, try a different computer. Not slow clear history and browser caches of the first browser.

Thanks. I'm going through the responses in order, and you'll notice that I've addressed some of your queries.

"Check Page and Swap used outs using Activity Monitor," Grateful if you could explain this a bit as I have near-zero know how about computers - could have a lot to do with my advanced age

Some tips:

1, Verify that you have free space on your Harddrive, 10% or more,

2, Run Disk Utility first, Repair permissions and then Verify disk. If Verify says Disk appears to be ok, fine. If it says "need to be repaired" then you restart in recovery mode (cmd-r) and from there run Disk Utility and choose repair Disk, Hope it can be repaired or you need to reformat/ reinstall.

3, Download Maintenance (free) for your OS version: http://www.titanium.free.fr/downloadmaintenance.php , or if you want mor setting download Onyx. (same developer)

4, Uninstall Virus Application, They tend to slow down you computer, and they only find PC viruses anyway, you Mac OS has a built in virus prevention that is updated with your OS.

5, Someone gave a tip about Chrome browser, nice and fast but remember it is used by Google to build your "google profile" so they can send you advertisements about your interests.

1. Have plenty of HD space

2. Did this and it carried out repair successfully

3. I will download the Maintenance for OS - thanks fr the link

4. Mine is called iAntiVirus. Is this the built-in one (going by the i in its name). Otherwise, is easy to uninstall? How?

5. I've been happy enough with Safari so far.

Clean up with 'Disk Utility and Repair Permission'

Get all the useless crap off.

Get a mini hard drive to store excess, movies, photos, etc...

Keep your HD free as possible

All my macs run fast; I use Chrome Browser

I have Avira Vurus, no slowdown.

Is free

Try resetting your PRAM, follow this link

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14222?viewlocale=en_US

Loads of HD capacity available (50%).

Have no idea what PRAM means (I'm useless about tech and/or tech terms) but I'll follow the link.

Doubt it is a virus, but you might try using Disk Utility and Repair Permissions on your hard drive. Those can sometimes hog resources and slow down your system. Permissions can get corrupted during power outages if you don't use a UPS.

Have done this. There was quite a bit of 'repair' to do - anyway it took a good 3-4 minutes doing it.

I would wait a few days. There was a break in the transpacific cable just off Vietnam. It has slowed or halted traffic considerably -- especially for websites that use US servers. Mine is improving, but still not back to normal.

thanks for that tip. I think there may be something to your theory - especially as my problem arose all of a sudden. I use safari of course. And it's improving. Of course that could also be because of the other suggested remedies above by helpful people here.

CCleaner is useles and more danger than helpful on a Mac. So wouldn't use it at all. Try to repair your file permissions via the disk utility app. Helps often and give you back better performance. Also check your activity monitor to see any background processes or apps that maybe take more resources than needed.

I have now done the repair thing. Can you please explain in layman's terms what and how about checking 'activity monitor'?

My Macbook has suddenly become drastically slower or even incapable to load websites.

How well does your Mac perform with other (non browser) applications? If it's just a slow everywhere else it could be a memory or even a hardware issue (not enough RAM, not enough free memory on the HD or a failing HD).

If the computer works fine everywhere else, have you tried downloading another browser (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.)

Works fine other than on internet. Not a RAM or HD memory problem - those are more than enough.

1. Download CCleaner.

https://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner

2. under Safari preferences, remove all website data. I do this everyday.

3. Clean white space with CCleaner

4. anti-virus programs can slow your computer, and Mac really doesn't need anti-virus; consider removing the software

5. definitely wait for Europe. One month is not that long.

In your 2 do you mean the 'remove history items' which can be set to various period - mine is now at 2 weeks and you have set at daily?

My Macbook has suddenly become drastically slower or even incapable to load websites. I'm presuming this is because of a virus. I have just the free iAntivirus on it. Is there a simple way for me to check if it's a virus problem and to remedy it? Would the Apple Care shop (In Chiangmai) have this capability - to check and remedy it? If it's not that easy perhaps it would be wiser to wait another month when I go to Europe and get it done there. (I have minimal confidence - based on experience - in the local shop).

Anyone have any idea how I could remove or even lighten those stains on my sofa cushion covers? Have put the covers through the washing machine - to no avail. What I'm sure makes my problem worse is that the stains are quite old.

(Even if someone knows of a magic lotion etc that is available abroad please tell me of it as I'll be in Europe next month.)

face covered up, picking on a woman alone, very brave... i´d like to see him try that with a few big russian geezers sitting on the sand

So why didn't a big geezer intervene, then?

The more affluent the people are the more they will spend on unhealthy food and get overweight or obese.

Look at the difference between Malaysia 44% obese, and Viet Nam or Cambodia, 10 to 12% obesity.

Malaysia being the richest country in the area Viet Nam or Cambodia the poorest.

America and Europe still have not found any remedy to the problem, although they are spending billions to educate the people as to what healthy eating is.

Sometimes, wealth doesn't help our health issues and I don't foresee any change for the future.

I haven't looked up the relevant data but I'd be very surprised if the percentage and degree of obesity in continental Europe is even remotely as bad as America.

Import Taxes for non-ASEAN assembled cars are 80%.

Excise taxes range from 11.1% to 111.1% based on engine type, capacity and horsepower (applied to all cars, not just imports).

VAT is 7% on top.

IMHO, why is the new sti about 600K less than the previous model? was the tax structure changed or something else? It's still stupidly overpriced anyway.

Nothing to do with taxes - they haven't changed for almost a decade now. My only guess is that with the introduction of XV, which actually gets sales, the whole business case for the Subaru brand has improved (i.e. costs of operating showrooms, service depts, parts inventory and staff are now shared amongst more units sold).

So the variable is Excise taxes. Is the classification of 'engine type' simply one of diesel, petrol or hybrid? Do you have an off the cuff idea about which of those three - engine type, capacity and horsepower - is the most 'lethal' for taxes ?

What is 'sti'?