@matigo I was raised on a dairy farm and love the taste & mouthfeel of real milk, which you can't buy for human consumption cos health regulators are fuckwits. Raw milk did me no harm for twenty years. This stuff I've found is made by an on-farm cheese factory & their milk goes through minimal processing: low temperature pasteurisation only.
As for the data, the MacBook Pro had 100 iTunes apps to update & was using most of my bandwidth. That's why I headed out to access something faster.
Went out without a mobile phone to do a bunch of iTunes app downloads on a fast semi-public wifi, one that's built into a public phone booth. I can access it because my home wifi is set up with a Fon & a Telstra Air hotspot, which in turn means I can access Telstra Air hotspots, be they public phones or similarly setup home routers like mine. My home broadband is billed for any usage.
I'd also taken a 12 - 240 volt inverter and the MBA charger, and topped up the MBA's battery whilst doing the downloads.
But I left it connected for too long & the car wouldn't start or would stall when I did start it. Grr. No mobile phone to call for help.
But wait! I'm at a public phone & the automobile association's roadside assist number is toll-free. So I'm standing at the phone booth trying to find my AA membership card. I knew it was somewhere in my wallet but it was proving elusive. So I returned to the car & spread the various cards out on the passenger seat & eventually found the thing.
I decided to give the car one more chance, it had been about 5 minutes since the last try & I was rewarded with a running engine.
I immediately headed off on a 58km round trip to buy the very special milk that I like & can only get at this one shop.
So the car has had a decently long run to charge up the battery. Two lessons learnt: 1: always take a mobile phone. 2: use the Lenmar Chug Plug https://www.amazon.com/ChugPlug-External-Battery-Portable-Adapters/dp/B00IIZOYFG/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1482140720&sr=8-1&keywords=chug+plug+macbook+air with its internal battery instead depleting the car battery.
Sad when 4G/LTE downloads are ony ½ that of 3G. Network congestion is the problem. There's over 50,000 folk in this suburb and lots of them will have smartphones, the majority will be on the same network I use.
Sometime in the next two weeks I'll be installing Sierra on the Men's Shed iMac. I know where I saved the 10.12.2 Combo updater but I was having trouble locating my saved Sierra installer. I eventually found it in a Time Machine backup & now its in the same location as the combo updater.
Me no understand. I have the latest version of Sierra installed. On Dec 17, this article was published: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-password-protect-folder-windows-mac-os-x-apple-microsoft/2/
Why, then, do the instructions & windows shown in the article differ from my experience of the macOS folder encryption process?
The differences are slight but enough to mislead/confuse a less-astute user than myself.
@lukasros Shutting down 2G in Australia, it accounts for barely 0.2% of traffic. The number two network, SingTel-owned Optus will keep theirs running until the end of April next year. Vodafone - Hutchison (trading as Vodafone) are the smallest network & have no plans on shutting 2G.
Where Mum lives in a biggish country town, the Optus & Vodafone networks don't work inside the house whereas Telstra has a new 4G tower installed to cover he side of the hill. Speeds of 65 Mbps down are possible from her driveway where the other two networks barely operate at all.
Damn cat. Comes inside, climbs all over me then gets cranky & goes into a hissy fit when I pluck burrs from her fur.
Just back home from helping an elderly friend set up his new Epson printer over wifi. In payment I took his old pre-iPhone 3G cellphone. It's just right for my Mum to use, her current one dies in a couple of weeks when 2G/Edge/GSM is turned off. Her SIM card however, is a 3G one.
