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

OK, nearly there with Google Apps, but now I get to learn about SMTP which I’ve never really groked: We are trying to migrate a single user and have everyone elses mail forwarded to the legacy mail server. When I turned this on, some of the mail seemed to get through, but the forwards didn’t…

OK, now that we are getting through the SUMIFS nightmare, there are two things to know: SUMIFS are good when they work and COUNTIFS give you some debugging. The main problem is that there isn’t any way to figure out what rows are actually summed up, so no way to know about doubling counting. For…

If you are trying to migrate from your own Exchange server (in our case we are using Mac Kerio Connect which emulates Exchange) to Google Apps, it is a little mysterious how to do it, but the basic idea is similar to the Office 365: First signup for Google Apps. There are third parties that…

If you’ve got a small business and want to move to Office 365 or to Google Apps, the main choice is whether you want 1TB of storage per user (Office 365) for $5/user/month or unlimited storage (Google Apps) at $10/user/month. We are going to try Office 365 as we’ve not used this system too much…

The empire strikes back! Canon fights Mirrorless Sony with a 50mp full frame. Drool. Drool!canon 5ds

I didn’t realize there was an installer that did all this at    But finishing the last installation, you can do a port install mythtv-0.27 from http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythWeb_via_MacPorts And then you’ve got a bunch of manual configuration.

Well for the first time in as long as I remember, it looks like Microsoft has a better deal than just about anyone in the cloud. We’ve been looking at moving off of our Kerio installation. It has served us well for several years and we run Mac Office and things have been pretty good. …

This is the first time I’ve seen a printer lose compatibility. Canon says that the MX700 no longer works with Yosemite. Somehow I can’t believe that it is this broken. So the investigation begins: One clue is that someone says that the Twain driver support was removed with Yosemite, but there is a fix where…

Well, Apple just uses mini Displayport (and Thunderbolt 2.0), but the world of third party monitors use many other connectors. Here’s a connector decoder ring: To HDMI. The modern Retina MacBook Pro can pus the 

As I said Appleinsider is a good place to buy. Adorama usually has the best prices for these things. The  best buy seems to be (for software developers) the MacBook Pro Retina 15″ with 16GB of memory and 256GB hard drive. But right now you can only get it in store for $2K with 3 years…