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

Ok last century, the last time I used UNIX, the best we could do was uucp and NFS was the future. Now XXX years later I’m trying to get a file server running and come to find out that the best Ubuntu seems to offer is Samba and well NFS!…

A good piece. You can buy a big invertor . Plug it into your battery and get 1500 watts from it!

Well it certainly isn’t easy to upgrade one. But here are your options: The Mac Pro six core uses the Xeon E3-1650 Westmere running at 3.5ghz. So it is a very decent processor Unfortunately by default it ships with all memory slots full 4x4GB but at least they are using…

Well I’m sure happy to have gotten rid of the $20/month charge for the rented Comcast router. We had it for a while because we had all this trouble with comcast, but thanks to the right email to the right person, they did a great job fixing it. Now onto…

I never thought I would see the day when 1gb Ethernet would be slow. But moving around 160GB training data sets isn’t fun. So looks like it’s time to look at 1000baseT networking. Also we have quite a few Poe devices now and our old linksys sge2000 literally started crashing…

I’ve always used core i5 k processors for my builds. With most gaming an overclocked core i5 at 4.5ghz for $220 is all you need. And the other features don’t matter.  The lone exception is a cheap Xeon file server where based on vlads advice we went with a six…

Well this is supposed to be the most powerful setup box made, but argh, is it hard to setup.  It requires that you logon to Google and it is really pleasant, asks you to use your phone or your laptop. Here is what I found: The http://g.co/AndroidTV is not compatible…

I think I’m a little scared I have over the years I’ve accumulated all this gear and it is the same as the wirecutters recomendations  Lowepro 350 aw. Nearly the perfect stealth bag for camera equipment. I’m on my third one. Great protection and even carries a 15 laptop. The…

Ok so now that we are getting to just internet here are the tips tricks and traps Wow Comcast customer service has really improved. Actual smiling people. And retail locations that’s great. The main optimizations are getting rid of television. If you love sports this is hard but otherwise it…

So how to make it all work. Rather than wait for my new hardware, I thought I might as well start with the hundred or so Raspberry Pi Model Bs we already have. Here’s a recipe for how to get it all running: Hypriot: The Operating system Hypriot are a…