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

There are so many out there that I just limited myself to analyzing those that are small enough and made of metal so they can fit on your key ring: Kingston SE9 G2. I’ve been using these for quite a while and unfortunately for USB 3.0 they aren’t super fast at 30MBps read and 10MBps…

Ok, now that I’ve worked on Python debugging (Sublime in Vintage mode, Anaconda, Logging, winpdb in a loop), although given my personal keyboard speed, using vi a lot because winpdb errors are not as clear as just the python interactive errors. Then there is the Javascript thing I need to learn and here’s what I’ve learned about debugging:…

Argh this has been so frustrating. If you run VMWare Fusion full screen on a Mac, and hit the wrong magic key, then your cursor is captured and the help is invisible in the title bar, the magic is Command+Ctrl to get you out of it.

We are just at the eve of the next turn of the crank with Skylake nearly here and the arrival of: DDR4 memory. So higher speeds are coming. NVMe SSDs. These are also arriving and are showing 2x the performance of SATA (1.2GBps) up to 4x PCI Express (2.4GBps). 4K Monitors. Even at 60 frames…

Ugh monopolies are horrible. No choice for any broadband and yet despite paying them $$&s for years, we have service just collapse in the last year. Had five truck rolls and technicians all report the same thing good signal at the street and terrible signal by The time it gets to the house.  Even had…

Well the summer is here so here are some of the best gizmos: UE Boom ($170 from Best Buy and Amazon) is pretty cool and small. You can get 1.5% off via a Best Buy rebate and also they have a rewards program with an additional 2% off, so pennies, but they will add up!…

It has taken me that long to open up the cabinet and give iRule a try. But with our Comcast Motorola DVR dead, we replaced with X-1 which means most of the our old Crestron programming doesn’t work. So I’ve installed a Global Cache iTech IR to IP with POE (now that’s an acronym full…

Wow, this 300mm f/2.8 is quite a lense according to slrgear.com and also lensrentals.com. It has no distortion even wide open at f/2.8 and a very slight resolution improvement at F/4, but it is really good even at f/2.8. I cranked the shutter speed to 1/800 and left it at f/4. In bright daylight, it…

Never thought you’d see those two words on the same line. We are working away at more overclock. The old Sandy Bridge runs at 4.95GHz reliably (48×103) as long as the mineral oil bath stays cool (less than 98F), but the cooling fans alone don’t do that when running a video game. It looks like…

Chase Freedom. Has 5% on categories and the big one is Amazon is 5% in the fall. It is also no fee so a great way to build up credit.  When you combine this as a grownup with the Chase Sapphire or the Ink Plus (the business card), then you get lots of bonuses: Use…