Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Gosh what a pain, last year we were building very fast Haswell systems in micro-ITX. We could get two dual slot graphics cards in there and it sounded like a freight train, but could get overclocking to 4.5GHz or so with the Noctua NH-12L which is low profile with great clearance underneath. One fascinating thing…

Google Apps makes this super hard mainly because: Google randomly changes their user interface, so you cannot find anything that is up to date Google has both Google Groups and Google Business Groups which are completely different do not work the same way. This is for the base Google Groups. Email aliases are actually handles…

Docker itself is pretty cool, but when you add remote control of multiple machines it gets really powerful. You can essentially use docker-machine to control remote cloud instances or to control virtual machines that are running locally. There is also a powerful idea called generic which means you can start docker container on any linux…

Oh if this were easy. As explained, this is at first easy, just increase the virtual disk space. In fact with today’s large machine and the fact this is all virtual, literally going from 20GB default to 200GB seems a no brainer for most developers: Expand from VMware Fusion the Disk to some big number…

Wow sometimes I wonder about VMware. If u install Mac OS X capitan with fusion 8 then suddenly copy and paste and hgfs (the ability to see mac file system from VMware breaks without any symptoms.  Thanks to sam who ferreted it out here is what is going on: VMware switched from their proprietary VMware…

What to do for the guy who has everything? Order them some incredible foods over the internet of course. We are big farm-to-table types and love local stories, so collectiong from gear patrol, esquire and other fork & steve, here are some recommendations: La Frieda. In Bergen County, they had a show on HGTV, kind…

Was just talking to a new grad and realized this credit card and credit score thing is filled with disinformation and confusing… So if you are new to credit here are the three things to do to maximize your credit score Get free credit cards as soon as possible. I’d recommend in this order. Discover…

Wow, it used to be basically impossible to get more than the typical credit card discount (1 point or about 2 cents per mile), but now here are some nice offers because credit cards are getting competitive, in order, if you use Amazon: Amazon Prime Store Card. This gives you 5% off of Amazon.com if…

Well the biggest problem are lots of passwords and the solution are password managers but what if password managers get hacked or have vulnerabilities? Or are closed source? Sadly both the managers I’ve used have both.  Lastpass. I switched away last year because their site was compromised and more importantly they have your key so…

This is actually a really fun feature on the iPhone 6s Plus. you can see a mini movie next to each still. There are a few tricks: While you can export these out to the real world, you get a JPG and a MOV file and these do not import well back into the Mac…