Connecting to a Windows file server from a Linux box
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »I was surprised how hard it was to find out how to mount a Windows file server as a drive on a Linux box. Fortunately, once I found out how, it was really pretty easy. First of all, ...
Found a bunch of templates
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »I use XFCE as my window manager, with Thunar as my file manager. Thunar has always had this "Create Document -> from template" entry in the File menu, but it didn't come with any templates. I finally went looking for ...
Cheap LED fixtures
Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »Normally, we stay far away from anything marketed to DJ's, but we've been experimenting with cheap LED fixtures as an inexpensive way to put more colors on stage. LED fixtures have a few advantages: they efficiently produce light without much ...
Cool set design: Part II
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »Here's another cool set design. What's interesting about these two pictures is that the set is illuminated using the same lights at two different intensity levels, but the color seems different. That's a neat feature of incandescent lights--at low intensity ...
Cool set design: part 1
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »After a longer-than-expected holiday break, I'm back with a slightly different topic: set design and construction. Someone else designs and builds our sets, but I get to light them, and I'm usually tasked with documenting them. Our lighting ...
