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

Up way too late last night. But in San Francisco, really had the perfect day, I think. Burma Superstar is a pretty amazing place. It doesn’t look like much, but this popular place on Burma Superstar. Great tasting salads with fermented tea called the Tea Leaf Salad. Brother’s Korean Restaurant was a terrific place. It…

Sorry to everyone, when I fixed zenphoto rewrite to be sensible I broke the detailed categories. Rewrite rules were fighting. Should be fixed now, so all detailed entries end up in archives

If you just want to see what devices are on your network. On the Mac, this little utility seems like the simplest. it actually just bounces and fails on the latest leopard because you have to replace a symbolic link for a utility called ipscan with another Java framework file.

My buddy Darrell explained to me how you really get a poor man’s IP PBX are coming from. Wow you need three boxes, the IP PBX itself, then a box which converts existing analog lines to IP and then a box that goes from the IP PBX back to the analog PSTN. In order to…

How confusing what to do. Here are some things I learned at Yelp of all places: * If you hae kids clothes, then the Treehouse is a good choice, goes directly into their clothing store * Northwest Center has a big program, but they are basically just recyling for a fee directly into Value Village,…

OK, trying this new stream on the Mac with DPP and then printing to a Canon Pro9000 connected to a Time Capsule on this new paper which is Platinum Pro. Here are the notes on usage. The most important is that with the new paper you have to update the drivers. Both the regular and…

eDave was asking how secure Skype really is. Well, the NSA I’m sure can hack the 256-bit encryption, but you have to find the peer-to-peer connection first since there is no centralized server for Skype. There is a nice white paper that covers the technical details in good detail, but in summary, they use digital…

Man, some of this stuff isn’t well documented. I’ve had problems with mod rewrite on my system for a while and in looking around found there is a file htaccess.txt that has to be manually edited in each zenphoto installation with the subdirectory. Now mod rewrite works on my gallery and art installations. Wahoo. Still…

It is amazing that anyone can figure this stuff out. The long and short is that I’ve been using Zenphoto with great success for photos. But when I got my new Canon 5D Mark II, suddenly, images started failing. You can see the blanks in ZenPhoto Troubleshooting say in that you need 41MB of PHP…

Superbowl was exciting and we were rooting for the Cardinals too bad. In the mean time though, it was a 30 minute mission to get this new TiVo HD XL setup. Actually was amazingly easy if a bit frustrating. Some notes: You get these magic Cable Cards from Comcast. There are apparently two flavors, multistream…