Tongfamily (Richtong.com Sync)

Well it is probably unfashionable to still use the same editor that I first learned in college, but heck, vi is still around. It is arcane and hard to figure out, but man is it efficient. There are two modes, edit and command, but that means that your fingers never…

Well, Twitter’s Bootstrap is the most popular front-end framework and it works against just about any backend. WordPress, Ghost, whatever. So it’s a good time to figure out how to use it: The most minimal form w3schools explains that it is entirely hosted on the web, so you just need…

Well we are testing ghost and getting away from WordPress. It’s been a great ride, but nice to learn a new system that is running on node.js and which is much simpler. I’m going to run the two in parallel for a while at tongfamily.com and richtong.org, so stay tuned.…

Wow this is a little complicated but getting Digital Ocean to work is a little complicated, but here are some tips: Ssh into Digital Ocean Droplet When you into the thing, you are using the root password, so you need to look at your droplet IP. Unlike things like bluehost…

Ok last post on the file server topic. Vlad pointed out that there are two storage layers here. That is near line SAS plus a PC3500 when it’s available for high speed ssd. So with 20 slots in a Norco 4220 you could easily add a caching Sata ssd layer…

Well, I’ve been much more focused this year on using portals and getting cash back rewards. I would say about 30% of the times I’ve tried this, the rebate doesn’t work. And folks are smart, it isn’t worth it to make a transaction for $1 work right and there is…

Wow you can see why Tesla is so valuable. I had no idea. The i3 is actually doing pretty well  which was surprising: The Focus Electric has been an absolute sales dud for Ford, although not nearly as bad as the Cadillac ELR. Through September of 2014, Ford only managed to sell…

It’s interesting to think about how to do this. Linux is so amazing because this support is: Included the Linux 2.4 kernel as part of USB Gadget Driver Android includes the drivers so that any Android build can use USB-on-the-Go PLX 3380 is a registered compatible 2280 (the USB 2.0…

Well done with big file servers for now, what about really small systems with great graphics. The new Haswell-E has allowed building really small units: Gigabyte BRIX Pro is a good example. For $600, you get a 8-core Core i7 with its embedded graphics. Sure it’s loud but kind of amazing…