Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

CD Freaks. Yet another site specializing in this CDRW and others.

CDRLabs.com – Home. Another site just for CDR if you can believe it.

CD-RW Central. There is a special interest website for everything. This one is about CD-RW information.

Building a poor man’s Network Attached Storage 1. www.promise.com. You use the Promise Connectstor II box to is a great poor man’s solution. Just $500 and you can put in any pair of IDE drives that you want. YOu can get this from ecost.com right now $526. 2. http://pub90.ezboard.com/fturtlebeachfrm14.showMessage?topicID=12.topic. This board appears to have lots…

Best Hard Drives The current value leaders are the 120GB 7200 RPM EIDE drives. There is a big war going on now as to whether Western Digital or IBM has the best drive. Not surprising since WDC and IBM have a license deal so these are essentially the same drive. The WD model number is…

Chess Computers Chess Genius for Palm. This is another alternative to a dedicated chess machines. A little cheaper at $25 than buying a separate $50 box like Excaliber Touch Chess Excalibur Touch Chess Review. Alex’s friend Aaron’s birthday is coming up. Connie thinks we should get him a electronic chess thing. Here was what google…

Ad Aware. This is a great utility for snuffing out cookies and other junk. Need to load both ad aware and the registration update thing called refupdate

Jumper Setting Information. Vital jumper information when installing the Western Digital Drives into an array.

ahead homepagel Got a LIte-on 32x CDRW, but it needs new XP drivers too. Get them here.

Welcome to Visioneer’s Driver and Software Updates page. The place to get Visioneer scanner drivers

Building a poor man’s server I’ve been trying for three years to build a poor man’s server. Now I have a 120GB server built by myself. Here’s how you can do it to…Here are some miscellaneous notes.. VIA Arena – Drivers. Need these to ensure that you have the 4-in-1 driver for the chipset for…

SATN.org: Comments from Bob Frankston, David Reed, Dan Bricklin, and others. Interesting to see what the deans of the personal computer have to say. A great blog. And, no, I don’t know what satn stands for.

Home Theater Advice for this Month Remote Central is the place for automating your remote controls. I personally think the Philips Pronto are the absolute best price/performance leader. Plus I love programming it. Remote Central lets you do that, find other task based user interfaces and codes for all your home theater equipment.

Time Synchronization Explained Time Synchronization Software is the central place where all information on syncing time across the Internet with your PC. Some great utilities to keep things in sync.

AtomTime98This is the way to automatically updae the clock on Windows 98 machines. Wih Windows XP, it has is own sync software built in so you don’t need this. Double click on the time on the lower left and it is the third pane.

Network Time Protocol (NTP) Explained. Windows XP has a time synchronization utility. Very valuable for geeks like me to have my watches exactly on time. Doesn’t work on my HP XP machine, but does on my home one. It complains about being in the wrong stratum. Didn’t understand this until I read all about NTP…

Small Form Factor PCs Panel PCs Prices.Best price list for Panel PCs, they are expensive at $3,000 for a 15″ LCD with a PC in it, but haven’t checked them all out yet. These are in Australian dollars, but give you a sense of cost.

Panel PC OK, Star Trek here we come, here is a PC built into an LCD flat panel by It doesn’t have a price on it, but it sure is cool. Might get one of these for Grace…

Book PC A true book sized PC, might get one just to see if it really works at. It is from EZgo Portable PC Barebone. Smallest PC in the World. Upto 1GHz, CD-ROM ( DVD, CD-RW, CD-RW/DVD Combo optional)

Build Your Own Mini-PC. OK, so I fried Alex’s computer by plugging in the power supply. Replaced it, but I’ll need another. I bought a monitor already, soee the next blog, but now is the time to build another machine. Thank goodness, Tom’s Hardware gives me the spec for a micro machine with a Flex…

Greetings Blogger Rich’s first post of a new blog. Hopefully I’ll update this as I find interesting new sites on PCs, consumer electronics of all sorts, and bicyclng as well as strange wireless gadgets.