Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

Got to love the internet, got just the coolest solder and hot gun engine today. Of course there are no directions that make any sense, so thank goodness for Youtube, with lovely musak, here’s how to assemble it! See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NUqV2tGApg

It is incredible sometimes how prices fall. Just a few months ago the sweet spot for pricing was the 16GB microSD card. You could get those for about $10. Now the pricing curve for a Class 10/UHS-1 (so a decently fast card at 10MBps) is: 8GB: $8 16GB: $9-12. Amazon…

Well it seems like hard drive failure month for me. Here are the drives, for personal machines, we are putting SSDs in as they are much faster and more reliable iMac 2009. Yuck, this one is going to be hard to get out. It’s buried and I have to figure…

Given how tough the last releases have been particularly with iOS 7.0 and 8.0 and Mavericks (which seemed pretty rough), I have to say I’m surprised by how smooth 8.1 and Yosemite have gone. Seems like it runs the same if not faster on old hardware. Our venerable iMac 2009…

Not surprising really: Tunnelblick. This is an OpenVPN system. Seems to hang network access on Yosemite. This gets fixed by the latest update to Tunnelblick. You have to manually down load it. Lastpass. Seems to forget the email and that I have already typed a password. This gets fixed by…

Well, this is so typically Apple, when it works it just works, but when it doesn’t who knows why. I just updated to Yosemite OS X 10.10 (when are they finally going to OS X 11 I wonder 🙂 and iOS 8.1. Things seem to be going very well and…

Both nVidia and AMD are going to ship their next video card generation (the 880?) next year on 20nm. Wow, what a tough time to be buying cards. It sounds like, if you can wait, then you might want to see that turn of the crank. Rumor is less power…