Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

OK back two years ago, I wrote about my workflow and it hasn’t changed much since then mainly because I stopped archiving photos. The main reason was that Vuescan kept hanging with macOS Sierra and that was really annoying. For whatever reason the latest Vuescan and High Sierra seem to get…

If you’ve got a regular commuter bike and you are trying to survive the long winters without rusty chains or getting (heaven forbid) hit by a driver, here are some things to get: Puroma Bike cover. The snow and the wet are murder on a bike, so if you can…

Well, T-Mobile free roaming actually works incredibly well in so many countries. It’s a bit slow, but it works. And if you pay $5 to Skype, then you can even get very low cost (two cents per minute calls to the US or free to toll free numbers). Or try…

Now that so much of lives are tied to mobile phones, one of the key things to do is to protect yourself against number porting thieves. This is a dastardly plot where an identity thief gathers enough personal data (SSN, Mothers Maiden Name) to be able to port your number.…

Well if you are even mildly cold temperatures like 32F, we’ve found that range falls significantly. There are quite a few factors but a very smart guy at Tesla Motors Club lays it out well: Preheat your battery. Turn your range mode off on the Tesla, turn cabin heat on…

OK, some quick notes on the logistics of managing the home IT. It’s a real job 🙂 I never could get the Synology DS-212J to work. It is so frustrating. I’m pretty sure there is a firmware bug, but can’t prove. The symptoms are that it worked fine, I did…

This has been bothering me for a while, this takes up a High Sierra device slot and so you can’t run VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, OS X Fuse with this loaded. And I keep getting the error “No peer process to connect to”. There is a red herring that has to…

Well, it’s a shame when printers outlast their drivers (which seems more and more common), but we have a decent Canon Pro9000 that I use literally once a year to print photos for grandparents. This printer has been obsolete for the last four years and MacOS no longer has the…

Well, on High Sierra when installing with Home-brew, I get this error over and over. I fixed it previously by checking on the System Preferences/Security/General and enabling a kernel extension, but this doesn’t seem to appear anymore. It worked fine until this latest Fusion 10.1, so I’m wondering if that…