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

Ok something changed with iOS and MacOS so now with Bluehost mail we are getting all these SSL errors. See https://my.bluehost.com/hosting/email_manager/config for your personal configuration. In looking at the instructions, it looks like with non-SSL. Which you never want to use, you use `mail.domain.com` for your domain, this then maps…

Argh, this is so frustrating. I had an unusual two hours between meetings today and it didn’t make sense to go home. So I thought I would try the T-Personal Hotspot that is on both my phone and my iPad. While I absolutely love the iPad with the cellular. Yes,…

Well, while I’ve been following Tesla very closely, I’ve only been peripherally aware of what is going on with SpaceX. Obviously, they are really shaking up the launch business and someday we will go to Mars because of them, but more practically, what they are doing with Starlink promises to…

Well the build of a monster machine is always interesting and being at the bleeding edge is a sheer joy (agony!). So if you are crazy enough to want to build a 32-core, 256-GB memory with 2TB SSD and 16TB hard disk (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/richtong/saved/#view=gH4K4D) As always you can either work for…

One of the problems with the really nice Sony RX100 series of cameras is that they don’t come with a cold shoe at the top anymore. That means you can’t mount a video light if you are shooting in low light and you can’t mount a high performance microphone if…

Man, Comcast. What a racket. You pretty much need to every year, figure out what the best plan is. I would actually put it into your calendar for a yearly check. So here is what I’ve found for 2020: They have a new charge system where they have “unbundled” the…

OK word to the wise. This is actually a really hard thing to debug. But today when we got home, the Internet connection was completely dead. It is so hard to know what happens, then, but the debugging steps are: Find a computer and see if you can get a…

OK, some really strange things trying to get a public repo working. Many times when you are trying to recreate a machine learning work is that you need to have the data along with the actual code. It’s unfortunately completely non-standard how this is handled. I had thought that I…

Ok so what if you want the ultimate machine. To our things into perspective. When the IBM PC first launched, the hot rod computer was the IBM PC XT. It had a 5MB hard disk. The first of its kind. And it cost $5-6K if you can believe that. And…

OK, so the first season was one episode of five minutes, that still counts! Seriously, starting the podcast series up. Getting to know the equipment. Using Anchor.fm to publish which is pretty cool. I don’t have an Apple podcast listing yet, but it is on Spotify and Google Podcast. Here…