Ryan Homan

I finally took a leap and got rid of my old 98 Ford Contour. It had been a good little car, but was costing me a lot to maintain. I happened to be at a dealer looking at a Nissan Altima, but they were unable to get pricing where I wanted. Then it came up that they have a 2001 Lincoln LS loaded and in good shape. They gave me a great deal on it so I purchased it instead. It doesn’t get great gas mileage, but it is an awesome car. I will include a picture and some more specs later.

Just saw that schedules direct hit their second milestone and those of you who signed up for the 3 month plan at $15 now gets 6 months for that price. The next goal is to get enough members to get the pricing down to $20 a year. Good Luck and thanks for all the hard work guys. Without it, my MythTV box would be useless.

I learned from my boss today that in the Notes User Group Meeting in Cincinnati yesterday, it was brought up that running an SSL cert on your domino server will cause about a 25% performance decrease and since we have been seeing some performance issues, we are now looking to offload that to either our router or some other way. I personally attended the Notes User Group in Columbus yesterday and I would have to say the I was a little disappointed in the turnout of only about 10 people, but the presentations were very good. We had a presentation of ProcessIt by Teamwork Solutions, a IBM rep talking about Notes 8 and composite apps, and finally Rich Waters showing off Ext.nd and what they done recently and I would have to say that the framework is making great process and I look forward to seeing what those guys come up with in the near future.  Hopefully a stable release so I can use it in my production apps at work. Right now I can only play with it in test mode.

Well even though I’m not a fan of the big ten network, I jumped aboard so I could watch the Ohio State Buckeyes first home football game on TV. Originally I had planned to switch to DirecTv whom I had scheduled to come out the Sat morning of the game, but then on Thursday a few days before, my cable company, Insight picked up the station so I decided to cancel the DirecTv and stay with Insight for the time being. I’m now fighting with Insight to enable the serial port on the Digital Set Top box, a motorola DCT-2224 so I can change the channels with MythTv, but they refuse. I think I’ll probably end up going the IR emitter way even though its not that reliable.