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Shocksolution.com: Entertainment Lighting and Software Development
http://www.shocksolution.com/
A blog about my work: developing simulation software for the biotechnology industry. It's also about my hobby, which is stage lighting for entertainment. I like moving lights, haze, and simple, creative designs.
Recent Posts
My article published in Technologies for Worship Magazine
Head over to Technologies for Worship Magazine and check out my recently-published article about backlighting. It’s my first publication in print (outside of technical journals). I’m looking forward to writing more articles for a gene...
First impression: ETC Element Console Review
We recently got an ETC Element to replace an ETC Express 72/144 that had become unreliable due to a hardware problem. I’d like to point out that ETC equipment is generally very durable, but this particular console only lasted about 8 years du...
LDI 2009 Report
I attended LDI (Live Design International) last Friday in Orlando, FL. This was my second time at the show (read my report from 2007). Overall, I’d say this year’s show was scaled back from 2007, which is not surprising considering ho...
Building and linking to a shared Fortran library
I’m using GNU Fortran (gfortran) to build several shared libraries, and then dynamically linking to them from a Fortran program. The process is a little different than what I’m used to for C libraries, so I thought I’d explain it....
X.org configuration for a Gentoo guest on VMWare Fusion
Here is an xorg.conf for a Gentoo guest running in VMWare Fusion on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard). It’s surprisingly simple to set up X when the hardware is fake Gentoo runs great on a Macbook Pro 13″. I was concerned at first about th...
Kernel configuration for a Gentoo guest in VMWare Fusion
I recently installed Gentoo Linux (amd64) as a guest on my Mac (OS 10.6 Snow Leopard) using VMWare Fusion. I thought I’d post the kernel config that I am using, since I didn’t find any out there that I trusted. If you can use this as ...

