http://www.ryangroom.com A place in cyberspace to call my own. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:24:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello everyone, We are looking for a few adventurous souls to help us in the final leg of our journey. Our destination is to get our TrekkTrakker iPhone app to the Apple App Store. But in order to do this we have to test, test, test and get ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2011/11/29/adventurers-wanted/ Hello music lovers, My aunt in entering a song writer's contest on Big Dog 100.9. To vote for her please email cvtassel@astral.com It is a song about my Grandma after my Grandfather died. It is a fantastic song. Please have a listen Papa's Quilt. Please vote! Thanks, Ryan Groom http://www.ryangroom.com/2011/08/04/papas-quilt/ As I work from home, employed in the computer field, my home network is slightly more complex than the standard home network. One of the things I do different is run my DHCP server on a Windows 2008 Server instead of the one supplied with the Bell Aliant FibreOp “modem” ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2010/12/31/running-an-internal-windows-2008-dhcp-server-and-bell-aliant-fibreop/ The doorbell rang at 9:30 am and there on my doorstop stood two Bell Aliant installers ready to switch my Internet and TV to FiberOp. My kids yelled, “Are these guys going to fix the TV from freezing?”, were my five, seven, and nine year old kids more excited than ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2010/07/19/fiberop/ Built a new PC targeting video editing as I found the video (even @ 720p) with the Canon Rebel Ti was killing my Q6600 based PC. So I build a new PC around a Nvidia GTX 470 because Adobe Premiere CS5 has a new Mercury Playback Engine that uses Nvidia ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2010/06/28/adobe-premiere-cs5-nvidia-gtx-470-and-mercury-playback-engine/ A few times in your life you read a book that changes your life, this was not the case with Rework, it validated my life. Rework is a book about the founders of 37Signals (Ruby on Rails and BaseCampHQ fame) and their no nonsense approach to life and business. My ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2010/05/02/book-review-rework/ Introduction I store all my photos on a shared network drive. This shared network drive is on Windows Home Server (WHS) because it keeps my all photos automatically on two hard discs. Also I backup WHS onto an external hard drive plus I also have 20 GIGs of space I use ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2010/01/01/adobe-photoshop-watch-folders-network-share-issue/ Introduction A few weeks ago I wiped my Windows XP 64-bit box and installed Windows Home Server (WHS) on it. I have been running Windows XP 64-bit as my home server for a year but the features in WHS made it a compelling upgrade. In the next few weeks I am ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2009/12/30/windows-home-server-saves-the-day/ I was excited to download VS 2010 Beta 2 and start playing with .NET 4.0, which is the real first new CLR since .NET 2.0. I discovered that VS 2010 finally supports dual monitors. It does not support dual monitors but multiple monitors! So like all geeks would do I ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2009/11/09/vs-2010-and-multi-monitors/ Since Windows NT 3.1 I have enjoyed installing beta versions of Microsoft's operating systems, call me crazy. The latest beta I have installed is Windows 7 32-bit. I installed in on my old Dell XPS Gamer laptop that is over 4+ years old. It has a Pentium 4 (3.4) 1 Gig ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2009/01/09/windows-7-beta-and-dell-xps-laptop-gen-1/