Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

OK, we just had an interesting network event. Last week, we got a backup cellular connection for our home network since we are doing Work From Home (WFH) so much.(Continue Reading)

If sometimes you see mysteriously a calendar event arrive in Google, that’s because it is looking for email and it tries to interpret it for things like air travel and(Continue Reading)

Well now that we seem to be getting back to traveling again. Calvin asked what’s a good set of carry on luggage to get. Well I’ve had lots of carry(Continue Reading)

OK, so one of the great things about Android is how many attachments there are via the USB C port. There are not a lot of real choices here the(Continue Reading)

Well we use Silicon Valley Bank for most of our company banking. It’s a habit because they’ve been so good to us over the years. But, their business account system(Continue Reading)

For a long time, I’ve kept all my tools in various horrible places and they are stacked everywhere. I’ve always wanted a real pro tool cabinet where everything can be(Continue Reading)

Man it’s just about impossible to figure out what syncs with what and it is always changing what works with what, but the basic problem is that I have no(Continue Reading)

Wow, I can’t believe Universal Control actually works and it is remarkable. First of all the setup is pretty complicated. Here is what you need to do to get this(Continue Reading)

Back two years ago, I was trying to use hashdeep to make sure that my files particularly JPEGs were not bit rotting. I’ve had dozens of JPEGs die in the(Continue Reading)

Well this was some work, but we have the 1.2Gbe/35Mbps and I wanted to figure out a way to do this with my existing hardware, it turns out with some(Continue Reading)