narkeddiver

A word of warning to anyone parking at Central Festival - the new parking regulations are causing tailbacks onto the super highway

Not sure when they started doing this but when we went there today you have to stop at the barrier and press a button to get a card (instead of someone handing them out)

This seems to take at least 30 seconds per car longer than the old way - hence the traffic jams

The new card is good for 5 hours free parking and you can get an additional 3 hours with a validated receipt - the checking of the receipts causes extra delays on the way out as well!

I've only been there recently on a Thursday and they had a band playing - they have their own food menu - typical Thai food - not sure if you can eat food from other places there

If the worst comes to the worst maybe consider installing a Linux distributions on it

I open the uk website on a separate page and just compare

Whatever the date is I recommend getting there early, very early - it gets crazy busy

Life is a pot of tea and you're up the spout.

Some days you're the statue and some days you're the pigeon;)

No issues for me so far

(Mac Mini 2012, MacBook Pro 2010)

Life is a beach and then you dive

It's possible that you have two accounts - it's also possible that although your Mac is registered to the iCloud the photos app on the Mac isn't

It's not your Apple ID password

It is a password you use specifically for your backup (although you could set it the same as your Apple ID if you want)

I also think you can save the password to your apple keychain if I recall correctly

I would not use the "Encrypt Local back up".

I have never tried it, but you might be able to do both an iCloud and a local back up. Just to be safe.

HTH

The benefit of doing an encrypted local backup is that it stores your app logins and email account logins inside the backup - normal local backups and iCloud backups don't do this

When you restore from the encrypted backup you don't have to have to login to your apps again

The downside is that you have to remember the password you used to do your backup - I use an app like 1password to help with this

Here's a link that hopefully does a better job than me of explaining encrypted backups

www.theinstructional.com/guides/using-itunes-encrypted-backups

I think the only way to do it would be to have two separate iCloud's accounts and back your iPad photos to one and your Mac to the other but that may bring about other issues.

Thinking about it a bit more you could set up two photos libraries on your Mac - a new, empty one which you backup to the same iCloud's account as your iPad - this will then sync with your iPad and download your iPad photos from the iCloud

Your existing Mac library your would chose not to back up to the iCloud

If you wanted a photo from your Mac library to be on your iPad you could just copy it from your Mac library to your iCloud library and then it would sync up to your iCloud account and then down to your iPad

I think this would work but I would recommend backing everything up first

Maybe someone with more knowledge could chime in with a better idea

A wonderful answer Narked Diver and it is indeed on optimise storage.

I guess this started when I got iCloud going properly the other day with a view to backing up for a screen change.

Funny thing is even though i have the lowest memory Mini by making sure I don't store videos (I store elsewhere) and even more importantly keep my podcasts from becoming too many I have always managed to get along with a gig or two of storage free and that's with the full res photos.

Being able to see read and show photos is an important function i think so i shall try to do what you say.

I'll wipe everything possible to free up space and try download and keep.

Thanx so much

​ps Could you please answer my other topic about iPad screen?

pps

​If you are fully iClouded it doesn't try to put all the photos from iPad to Macbook AND VICE VERSA does it?

Now that would cram up the iPad about ten times over.

I had a look at your other thread and I'm not an expert on these things I'm afraid

I would say back your iPad up to the iCloud but also do an encrypted back up to iTunes on your Mac as well - an encrypted back up should store app passwords and that sort of thing as well

If you plug your iPad into your Mac via a USB cable then the back up and restore will be quicker than using the iCloud back up but it's good to have both

As I understand it the cloud combines all the photos from your Mac and your iPad and stores the full size version of these photos in the cloud

Both the Mac and the iPad have the option to store the full size version of the photos locally or a low res version locally

If you're full size photo library on the Mac is 20gb then the full size photo library will be 20gb on your iPad once you switch to keeping the full version on your iPad

So if you have iCloud photos turned on on your Mac as well as on your iPad and the Mac library is larger than the space available on your iPad then you won't be able to have the full version on your iPad

It sounds like you've got your photos stored in the iCloud - easily checked on you iPad by going settings -> iCloud and seeing if Photos is set to on

If photos is set to on then there are additional settings that can be accessed

You have the choice of optimise iPad storage or download and keep originals

It now depends on the size of your photos library and the storage available on your iPad

Currently it sounds like you will have optimise storage selected - this means that over unused photos are stored at low resolution on your iPad and will look 'blurry' until you select them and download them.

The iPad will automatically replace older, downloaded photos with the low res version if space gets tight on your iPad

If you don't have a lot of other stuff stored on your iPad and your photos library is relatively small in size the you can select download and keep originals

This will take time and so you might want to don't o we night if you can only have one device attached at a time

There used to one under the hotel (Grand View?) next to the new Toyota dealership near the super highway Maya junction

Also recall one under the hotel next to kad suan kaew

Does the length of time a ginger nut can be dunked for before dissolving change based on the brand of tea it is being dunked into?

Thanks for all the information folks - l like the solar powered solution but not sure my budget will stretch that far just yet

You need to check what the 9 hours use was claimed for.

For example it might say that it will last for 9 hours of web browsing - if you are doing more intensive processing than that (editing video footage for example) then the battery will last less

Hi,

We've just moved house and the electricity supply seems to be flakey in big storms so I think it's time to look at getting a UPS but I don't know if there are particular brands / models that are better than others or if there are any gotchas to look out for

I'm only looking to protect my Mac mini so I don't think I need a particularly large unit.

I would like the unit to have software that I can install on my Mac mini so that I can set it to shut down safely when the UPS kicks in

The only other function I'd like is the ability not to have an alarm sound or lights flash when the ups is running - if the power goes off at 03:00 I don't want or need to know

Thanks in advance

Depends on your home country and your budget - it might be worth considering selling in your home country and buying a new one here. For example the entry level Mac book pro is £1,599 in the uk - the exact same model in Thailand costs approx £1,239

I have to get my 1 year marriage visa, am I going to Promenada, or the old location near the airport? Sorry if this has been answered already in the thread, but it's 20+ pages long. Thanks.

Marriage extension is at the old location.

Is it worth creating a pinned topic that summarises the services at each of the two locations?

E.g.

Promenada - 90 day report (in person), extension based on pension, etc

Old location - 90 day report (mail in), extension based on marriage, etc

Time to start researching VPNs I guess

When I saw the title of this post I feared the worst in terms of responses but I have been pleasantly surprised and my faith in CMTV has been restored

I probably should have mentioned the gay element wears them a lot.

Man - these trousers have a lot to answer for - they've changed my sexuality as well as making me poor and stateless - next I'll be having to look for the cheapest place in town to buy a beer

It appears that they are preferred by Stateless expats, who lack the funds to make a trip to where they came from occasionally, and pick up some decent clothes. Also, a number of trashpackers, on the accelerated road to poverty wear them. Guess who is going to be the first to piss in the bottle, when the BiB show up?

I'd never considered myself as a Stateless expat who lacks the funds to make a trip where I came from - my passport and bank balance must be lying to me

I'm happy to wear them around the house - nice and comfy and as previously stated once you tie the correct knot they're secure

I'll occasionally wear them if I'm popping round the corner to the 7-11 and I can't be bothered to change into shorts - seeing that some locals wear their pyjamas to 7-11 I don't feel too underdressed