Recent content by JohnHuntington

My new book, Introduction to Show Control, was released today!Details here.

As others have noted it all depends on what the individual has saved. I've been putting up to 20% of my salary away for a long time, and don't have kids so I can go early and just live off of savings and investments. I won't likely tap into Social Security for another 8-10 years (the longer...

When I was working for Associates and Ferren we built time-code controllable film projectors. I just posted some photos here: https://www.controlgeek.net/visual-resume We had tried to have the projector drive audio sync but there was too much wow and flutter. So we did it the other way, put...

I addressed curriculum in the two articles I posted above. At CityTech we are pretty much doing what I think the industry needs, and have a number of successful alumni to prove the approach: https://entertainmenttechnology.org/We were hurt primarily from a lack of funding, which is across the...

My blog is turning 15 (!) and in celebration I'm giving away network cheat sheets! Details here: https://www.controlgeek.net/blog/2023216-johns-network-cheat-sheet-giveaway

Oh boy do I have opinions on this topic :-) But what I don't have at the moment is a lot of time (embarking on a new book project, updated my website, etc etc). So I will point to several articles and blog posts. The first one is now 21 years old and still (mostly relevant)...

Early retired :-) Still have a lot more to do in the industry :-)

Agree and also most home "routers" also have DHCP servers and you do not want more than one (or any, depending on protocol) DHCP servers on your network. That can make for some really crazy problems that take a while to troubleshoot.John

Sorry I didn't see this before the conference! It's right out of my "Introduction to Show Networking" book Chapter 5.John

I finally posted my session: https://controlgeek.net/blog/2022/2/15/speaking-at-usitt

I'm planning to go and am presenting a session on network system design. I guess I should figure out when exactly that is :)John

@gafftaper Thanks so much for this great report! John

Thanks!John

Sorry I was overwhelmed with the end of the semester and out storm chasing and completely missed this thread. Thanks @derekleffew @rsmentele @What Rigger? and everyone for the kind words! The new book is available internationally and via Google ebook. Details here...

26 years, actually :-) But also I think our curve is flatter now than it was then: https://controlgeek.net/blog/2020/8/20/development-and-evolution-of-show-technology-articles-and-timeline