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Continue reading →: Using 802.11n on late model Macbook and Macbook Pro’s
The chipsets inside these computers are programmable for wifi. They originally shipped just with 802.11b and 802.11g (these are relatively lowers speed at 11Mbps and 54Mbps respectively). With the new Airport Extreme and Time Capsule, the Apple base stations can now run the ever better “802.11n”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#802.11n (actually, it is called…
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Continue reading →: Apple Airport Utiilty 5.3
Apple has this strange concept where when they ship a new piece of hardware like the “Time Capsule”:http://www.apple.com/support/airport/ they update their controller utiilty called Apple Airport Utility, but don’t make it available on their any site or their search engines according to “Discussions.Apple.com”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6725431&tstart=0. So make sure you keep your CD…
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Continue reading →: Linksys WRT54GL to Apple Time Capsule Conversion
Now that the Time Capsules have come in, we’ve upgraded our office to use this incredible Wifi+Router+1TB File Server+Backup Server and now I’m working on fixing all networks. Main issue is that I’ve got way too many static IP address devices, so here’s a list and how to get away…
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Continue reading →: Canon Pro9000 attached to Airport Extreme does not print
Canon printers have never really gotten along with Macs. I wish I knew that before I bought my i9900 at home and Pro9000 at work. Apparently for instance, ou can’t print over the network. Things are a little better with the Pro9000, but apparently, it is very difficult to get…
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Continue reading →: 2008 National Junior High Championship
Time to sign up, starting March 4, registration costs go up. The “National Junior High Championship”:http://main.uschess.org/tournaments/2008/jhs/ is next month at the Hyatt Regency at the DFW Airport. Time to sign up. It’s way more convenient being at a major airport, but the thought of four days of airport food are…
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Continue reading →: Comment Spam
Well, this affliction is terrible. Even in the last two days, I’ve had one good comment and the spammers found the new WordPress blog and started spamming it. WordPress like MovableType doesn’t have much protection. Here is what I did and you should too: # Registration. Require user registration before…
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Continue reading →: WordPress Widgets and Archives
OK, unlike MovableType, WordPress doesn’t automatically generate an archive.php (which is a list of all your posts), so for default templates, you get a 404 page not found error. To fix this isn’t easy to figure out, but essentially, go to Write/Write Page and make sure to name the “page”…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to the new tongfamily.com!
Well, the switch is finally done. I got mainly held up on the WordPress strange rewrite difference from MovableType. If you want to see the old site, it currently lives at “richtong.org”:https://richtong.org, but eventually, I’ll just put all the old files into “old.tongfamily.com”:http://old.tongfamily.com
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Continue reading →: Becareful WordPress automatically rewrites domain URLs
So this is all a bit tricky particularly if you want to keep everything running. Here are the weird things you need to remember when transitioning. Some are DNS peculiarities, others are WordPress peculiarities, the biggest one being that WordPress unlike MovableType controls the URL rewriting, so even if you…
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