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

Well, I normally just toss all my stuff into my bag, but about 10 years ago, a good buddy told me the key was not folding clothes but laying it out flat. So that works well when you don’t have to rummage, but lately, on longer trips constantly losing stuff…

This hasn’t happen in a long, long time, but I got a 500 error on the tongfamily.com site, which is pretty bad. The troubleshooting is pretty complicated, but it comes down to, on Bluehost.com: Make sure you have ssh access to the site. You should enable ssh access on the…

There are really too many, many choices right now in fonts. We’ve moved far beyond Helvetica and Times. For a while I was an Arial and Times New Roman fan because they looked like those famous fonts, but didn’t have the licensing problems. And there was a period where I…

Wow Google Sheets really has gotten much better than I remember. I’ve been trying to do some forecasting and curve fitting and discover quite a few functions that make it easier, but there doesn’t seem to be much of a guide, so here you go Linear Regressions First, decide what…

OK what a great deal of confusion today, suddenly our ObiTalk not longer works. The connection to Google Voice has been awesome, but now when I try to dial, I get a fast busy and the outside line hangs up. So off to remember how this all works. It’s a…

Super annoying, but when I put the Mac to sleep and it wakes up in a different wifi network, then it will not reconnect. I have to reboot it to work. The symptom is that there is no DNS Server and It looks like no connection. There is nothing unusual…

OK having spent a year doing this, if you and your family are all iPhones and Macs, then this is a pretty good solution that is powerful and highly secure and private. That’s because Apple is one of the few companies that encrypts all your photos so they can’t see…

Certain clients won’t be able to handle these. So if you lose access (it’s been reported for Lenovo Windows machines for instance) then you need to turn them off. You turn these on by going to the Unifi Controller Settings at the lower left and enabling Advanced Settings which include…

I’ve actually never had a Kindle just crash. In this case, it was on the page to enter a PIN. The solution is pretty simple, if hard to find, but Amazon says, just hold the power button which is on the lower edge of the device down for 40 seconds.…

OK, I’ve been using Unifi for a while now and making it work properly has always been a bit of chore, particularly in managing what channels to put access points as that requires really looking at interference. But with the latest release, 5.10, this has become much easier: You can’t…