http://www.ryangroom.com A place in cyberspace to call my own. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:08:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ I have been interested in photography for a long time. I got my first Spiderman camera when I was six. I still have the pictures I took being 6 and 7 years old in a photo album. I learned early on that taking pictures was expensive (especially for a youngin’) ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2009/01/02/beginnings-of-my-trek-into-digital-photography/ <rant> Some days I work hard and realize I did not get anything done. Emails, cell phone, twitter, blogs, IM, door bells, they are all one constant interruption. Our generation has gotten to much in the habit of the of "Now! - and get me someone while I am waiting!".  I ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/11/05/buried-by-digital-noise/ A few times in your career you get to be involved in a project that will stay your memory as a special project. The One Million Acts of Green (OMAOG) campaign by CBC (sponsored by Cisco) is one of those projects. Before OMAOG my favorite project was the CETS project with ... http://www.ryangroom.com/2008/10/26/one-million-acts-of-green/