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

OK, some quick notes on the logistics of managing the home IT. It’s a real job 🙂 I never could get the Synology DS-212J to work. It is so frustrating. I’m pretty sure there is a firmware bug, but can’t prove. The symptoms are that it worked fine, I did…

This has been bothering me for a while, this takes up a High Sierra device slot and so you can’t run VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, OS X Fuse with this loaded. And I keep getting the error “No peer process to connect to”. There is a red herring that has to…

Well, it’s a shame when printers outlast their drivers (which seems more and more common), but we have a decent Canon Pro9000 that I use literally once a year to print photos for grandparents. This printer has been obsolete for the last four years and MacOS no longer has the…

Well, on High Sierra when installing with Home-brew, I get this error over and over. I fixed it previously by checking on the System Preferences/Security/General and enabling a kernel extension, but this doesn’t seem to appear anymore. It worked fine until this latest Fusion 10.1, so I’m wondering if that…

Seems like every two years I have a post like this, but here is an update on how to do this: Ignore the guides that talk about unetbootin, this does not work on High Sierra nor did it work on Sierra. When I tried to use it with a Windows…

Well there are all kinds of new things you need with a Tesla, one of the main things are additional applications including: EV Trip Planner. This takes in actual data from real cars and then calculates mileage with wind and elevation taken into account. A Better Route Planner. Like the…

OK I’m an idiot, when you delete photos with your iPhone, they live for 40 days or so in your deleted folder which is great. But when I just took an old iPhone out and it started to sync again, it left 1,000 duplicated in there. So I started deleting…

OK, I’m sure this is a common problem and I’m no Windows 10 expert, but some notes on making a computer work that is trying to use an older camcorder with Firewire: Make sure you have taken the updates. Windows 10 has lots of them. I can’t actually remember where…

A few years ago, we use AdoramaPix to do two photo albums. They were stunning, color matched and hand done, the software was a little clunky in terms of layout. This year looking through the reviews, trying Mixbook. I don’t know how this will come out, but they are supposed…

Well I haven’t been doing much camera work in 2017 and I’m probably 80% iPhone (thank you X!) and 20% Canon 5D Mark II (yes I know I need to upgrade but with the iPhone being such a big part of it all, I’m confused as to whether to move…