Masters3D

I found this by accident. My Iphone’s home button is broken. This is how I am getting around for now.

Haha… This is cool/ Funny.

HAHA. Magneto Vuela Vuela. Perfect for halloween.

Here is the Banda version…hahaha

Here is my favorite mexican version Hahahaha
Circus music

Here is the original song in French

Kate Ryan “Voyage Voyage” Version

Now here is an issue that I first heard on NPR and now it has been made into a film. I haven’t seen the film but It looks like its going to be a good. It is suppose to be based on real events and it seems like it is. My guess is that texaco is going to get away with this and nothing is going to be done to fix it because of corruption.

When was in high schoo people told me that in order for me to make lots of money I needed to have a college degree. I do agree with them initially, but as someone gets more experience and works harder that person usually ends up surpassing the others with degrees. Now here I sit at the university of Washington campus, my friend from church is graduating. I know that he will do great and if he doesnt allow his degree to get in the way from giving his all to his job, I am sure he will be succesfull beyond measure.  Nothing beats experience and hard-work. Look at Bill Gates and Jobs.

Just bought and intious4 med and I just love it so much!!!! I am dying to model and paint. Overall it is much faster than the intious3. It feels like a mouse very responsive.

One of the reason I kinna gave up animation is the fact that I can only move one thing at a time. For example, if I want to pose a character I would have to move one arm at a time. When modeling I feel is ok if I am only moving one thing at a time and the wacom table does this so well but I just cant wait when Iphone like multi touch interfaces come for the computers so that i can move two or more things a time and even maybe move things in TRUE 3D. Almost like working on a doll with limbs with in the computer, You get me? Maybe then I would move to animation b/c then i would be much faster. Who knows maybe I’ll do animation with my tablet any way. Stayed tunned

I am so exited about the new cameras that can record stereoscopic pictures. Until now only 3d films and games could do this  but now companies like Red  are providing a way for film makers to bring the new dimension to a flat medium like film.

I took an 3d animation classes at college but I found it to take so long to create meaning footage. I takes about 6 months to create about 3 minutes of great animation.

So for now I am going to focus on stories and not on 3d techniques like 3d animation. I just watched Disney Pixar UP and it make me cry not because the rendering and the 3d expereince but the story was so compelling.

This is the reason why I love games too, NOt so much because of the action but because of the stories. One of my favority games because of the story was Metal Gear for the PS1 and then I follow it up to the Ps3 with MGS4.

The most sofistacated game or the most eye candy film will fail if the story is not engaging.

I didnt really want to jump on the drobo bus but after spending about 3000 d

ollars on storage solution that just fail why not spend half on something that is not going to fail. —well, thats it for marketing. This is why I would wait to buy the drobo:  Firewire800 usb 2.0

I am a video editor and yes I need the bandwith specialy with HD footage but why would I consilidate my storage if I dont gain any speed? Granted is not drobos fault that we havent seen hardware for firewire1600 or usb 3.0 but Ill know when to buy drobo when  firewire1600 and usb 3.0 comes out only then it will make sence to get rid of all my drives and more to a centralize solution that is going to last me a least a few years.

UPDATE:

Another set back of the Drobo is that the Data Read and Write are not that fast compared to stand alone external drive.

BELOW : Standard firewire speed:  Average 80MB/s compared to about Average 45MB drobo.

Band loyalty

In 1999 I feel in love with sony. I have sony headphones, sony monitor, sony sound system…sony sony sony!!!! It was an obsetion. In 2000 sony come out with the color pda, I was in a trance and I worked all summer to get it. it was 500 dollars, the clie 760 I rememeber I thought I was the greater thing I had ever held in my hand. I would install about 50 games and I was not productive at all, In fact I used it as an very expensive gameboy. I was in love with palm os and I would check the website everyday to see if a new version of their defunt OS 6 would come out but it never did. Then I bought the UX50 another 500 dollars. I was an addict to  cliesource.com and palminfocenter.com ( I had the same experience when I bought my first xbox and xboxscene.com) I would check this websites every 2 to 3 hours for news updates. ( I made them lots of money on adds)

Then I broke up with with sony and palm and moved to the mobile revolution. I loved google and I had Tmobile so I got the G1. I liked it but it didnt live up to what I expected, About the same time My company gave me a blackberry and while a solid phone it was not what I was looking for. So I switched to the Iphone and now I am happy.

The internet and phones

I hated the fact that the made you get the internet but I actually like the fact that they do becase the greated thing about phones now adays its the internet.

My favority appliactions

• reqall.com: I love the fact that I dont have to use it as an appliaction but I can just call in and add txt as reminders
• mint.com: there is nothing better than being able to check how much i am worth at anysecond of the say
• pandora.com: Online radio
• evernote.com Just love having my notes close to me
• google maps and voice search

If you notice all of my fav appliaction are online application so in reality I am not attached to my iphone but my iphone is just a gateway for those application on the go.

What I am looking for:

• google voice: While I love the iphone voice mail I always find myself running out of space and I actually miss my http://messagesling.com/
  

26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong

by Wade Meredith on February 14th, 2007

A cognitive bias is something that our minds commonly do to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases.

1. Bandwagon effect – the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias. Carl Jung pioneered the idea of the collective unconscious which is considered by Jungian psychologists to be responsible for this cognitive bias.
2. Bias blind spot – the tendency not to compensate for one’s own cognitive biases.
3. Choice-supportive bias – the tendency to remember one’s choices as better than they actually were.
4. Confirmation bias – the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions.
5. Congruence bias – the tendency to test hypotheses exclusively through direct testing.
6. Contrast effect – the enhancement or diminishment of a weight or other measurement when compared with recently observed contrasting object.
7. Déformation professionnelle – the tendency to look at things according to the conventions of one’s own profession, forgetting any broader point of view.
8. Disconfirmation bias – the tendency for people to extend critical scrutiny to information which contradicts their prior beliefs and uncritically accept information that is congruent with their prior beliefs.
9. Endowment effect – the tendency for people to value something more as soon as they own it.
10. Focusing effect – prediction bias occurring when people place too much importance on one aspect of an event; causes error in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome.
11. Hyperbolic discounting – the tendency for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs, the closer to the present both payoffs are.
12. Illusion of control – the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes which they clearly cannot.
13. Impact bias – the tendency for people to overestimate the length or the intensity of the impact of future feeling states.
14. Information bias – the tendency to seek information even when it cannot affect action.
15. Loss aversion – the tendency for people to strongly prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains (see also sunk cost effects)
16. Neglect of probability – the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty.
17. Mere exposure effect – the tendency for people to express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them.
18. Omission bias – The tendency to judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions).
19. Outcome bias – the tendency to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of based on the quality of the decision at the time it was made.
20. Planning fallacy – the tendency to underestimate task-completion times.
21. Post-purchase rationalization – the tendency to persuade oneself through rational argument that a purchase was a good value.
22. Pseudocertainty effect – the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes.
23. Selective perception – the tendency for expectations to affect perception.
24. Status quo bias – the tendency for people to like things to stay relatively the same.
25. Von Restorff effect – the tendency for an item that “stands out like a sore thumb” to be more likely to be remembered than other items.
26. Zero-risk bias – preference for reducing a small risk to zero over a greater reduction in a larger risk.

Oh and, by the way, you’ll never be able to truly gauge any of the biases you might be operating under since it’s not possible to accurately observe a system you’re part of. Now, get out there and delude yourself!

Complete list of cognitive biases – Wikipedia

This is an awsome post I found long time ago.  I have been so busy working and taking classes, more to come. -cheyo

 
According to google as of THis morning. This site may harm your computer. Everything is harmfull. Lets see how fast they fix this or how fast is my site taken down. haha. cheers

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This site may harm your computer.google says

Sliderocket, the online presentation tool, has today come out of private beta and is now public, open to all.  If you did not get in to the private round, you’ve got to check this out now.  Sliderocket is one of the most fantastic web apps out there.  It has features that help you create stunning presentations very easily, and is organized in a collaborative way that would work really well for a small business, or perhaps for a department that relies on frequently creating presentations with shared assets (images, templates, videos…) such as a sales or marketing department. With the opening to the public, comes a new release with some interesting new collaboration features.  Still sorely missing is a feature to export files to common presentation formats such as .odf or .ppt.

If you still haven’t tried Sliderocket, now is the time to give it a go, this is definetly one of the new web tools worth trying.

My buddy Garrido at http://www.dailyiteration.com/sliderocket-goes-public-and-yes-it-rocks/ Keep them coming.

So it was been a while since i posted anything. Well, Now I have a girlfriend, a phone and a new job. whooHoo.. haha…ok so I go the g1 the day it came out and now I would like to share with you how to get you laptop connected to you g1. I used this tutorial: http://graha.ms/androidproxy/ by the way I am posting this from my phone, you will get speed of about 380 up and the same for down. Now here is the trick. You need to use fire fox and FoxyProxy from mozilla page..
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=foxyproxy&cat=all

Open the FoxyProxy options

Click on Proxies —–>Add New Proxy ——>General (Check enable,Proxy Name: Tetherbot, Leave blank Proxy Notes, Select Animation icon & Include this proxy) ———->Proxy Details (Select Manual Proxy Configuration, Host name: localhost Port: 1080, Select Socks proxy?-Socks v5) ———->

Click ok and a warning message should appear saying “You didn’t enter and enable any white…..” Hit yes

Tool——> FoxyProxy>Use Proxy “Tetherbot for all URLs
Make sure you to Check “Use SOCKS proxy for DNS lookups” Is Under Global Settings.

Thanks http://forums.tmonews.com/

By the way… I am note sure why google hates my page. I doesnt even show up when I type masters3d.com maybe if I mention masters3d like masters3d bunch of time it will work. masters3d

I think that is bound to happen as a necessity to be able to manage so much code. I feel that Modo needs to get in touch with side effect to form a revolution or get a hold of the NewTech and offer some kind of partnership and combine their efforts if they want to stay a float. 401 is key for luxology, it is now a never.

this one is more sad than funny

With the fall of my favorite bank ( WaMu ) and the difficult times that banks face internationaly, I cant help but to think on what will happen to our economy. I am talking about US, or Global economy; I am talking about indivial economy.

Check your credit online for free

with freecreditreport.com and get a free credit report but of course you have seen the funny commercials. Also you can go to annualcreditreport.com but for some reason at the time of this writing the site is down,( everything with the US is down)

Keep track of your spending online.

I use Mint.com While quicken seem to work ok too and it has a now free online service I started using Mint and so far I like it a lot. It lets me know how much I owe and my total worth, haha, which by now with all my student loans added it about -50,000 dollars and guess what? I just moved and I am looking for a job.

Random stuff:

Unless you want to wait in a line, never go to a bank after a holy day or on Mondays because more that likely its going to be full and you are going to waste your time. haha, funny my mom said the same thing about going for a check up, she said that Mondays is packed cause all the people that get sick during the weekend come on mondays.

Commercials Money Tree Videos

Lots of companies invest ton on money on ads, just yesterday I was helping out with an ads campaign for money tree which was pretty funny. The above is one of their adds but its not the one I was working on.

cheers.

Save up for hard times, and dont use money tree often.

What would it take for me to get one?

I bought my mac book pro since April 17, 2007 and as of today it has been about a year an a half since I had my laptop. Today’s refresh of the notebook line is impressive yet I knew that at some time my laptop was going to get old and I set some guide lines until I upgrade.

• 1 gig of video card memory.
• 3.00+ Dual core Processor or quad mobile processor
• Be able to go more than 4 gig of ram
• OS 10.6 stable.
• Fire wire 1600 and or eSATA

So I am predicting that all of these features will start to show up some time in the summer of 09 and maybe by christmas 09 / new years 2010 I will see myselfe getting a new laptop and that will be just in time since my insurance is up April 2010. I better start saving up then. How about you? Maybe by that times windows 7 is up and running may give us a surprise. Who knows? =) cheers

January 24, 2009      Seattle, WA      Paramount Theatre      8 PM      ON SALE 10/10  TODAY!!

If you don’t what games live is go check out their website. Its basically a concert of classical music of your favorite games. I am going this year to the  showing in Seattle.  You can also check out many videos on their website or youtube.

Cheers

We need help developing an online course for teens to learn Blender.

I think that using blender to introduce teens into learning 3D is not such a great choice because I believe using blender would scare kids away from 3d.

Yes blender is free but that doesn’t mean its easy to use. Like Maya, Blender has a confusing menu system and it has a steep learning curb that would more than likely misguide kids and discourage them. I would recommend teaching them on a program like modo (luxology.com) since the program makes it so easy to learn 3d plus it is used by many production houses to produce assets while still using other programs like maya or blender for animation or effects. modo has a really nice educational program I would recomend you would check it out. ( And not I am not getting kick backs)

I started editing video with final cut since version 5. I was lucky enough to go to a college that had a mac computer lab and I was able to edit most of my church project on the mac. Prior to using the FCP (Final Cut Pro) I used Sony Vegas. Vegas was a joy when I started to edit video. I remember the countless hours that I would work on my computer editing .avi video and all the frustration times that I found myself in when windows will crash or when the render time will take hours and hours and I was an a reliability fast computer at the time in fact no much faster than what I am using now, the only difference is that with vegas I was using a desktop and Now I use my laptop. Anyways, Switching from Vegas to Final Cut was not so easy, With Vegas I had no limits on what I could use yet I had more problems With Final cut I had more restriction as far as what kind of quicktime fine I could use and audio compression etc. But now I realize that those restrictions were in place to make my life easier in the long run also it allowed me to understand the workings of files.

Recently our lab was upgraded to final cut 6.0.4

and while I was been using final cut studio 2 four about a year the little 6.0.x are not backward compatible meaning that anything created with final cut 6.0.3 was not compatible and other computers was is odd but thats the way it is with final cut.  Little advice. DONT EVER UPGRADE IN THE MIDDLE OF A PROJECT!!! NEVER!! You are not a beta tester and unless your program is not working the way it is suppose to, Don’t ! ! it will be pain. Well I upgraded and BOOM my file that I had been working for the past year ( its a comp that I am always updating) stopped trying to render!!! what that heck? It would not render. There was  a “general Error’ well it would have been fine but I had a dead line at 9am the next day and it was already 10pm. I googled my fingers away trying to find an option. See it is fine if you are going to start a new file but the old files don’t transfer that well most of the time. I searched and searched and it was about 6 in the morning when I found the error. What was the error? I had downloaded some pictures off my email and had included them in the composition. All I had to do was to  open up those pictures and save them again. And presto! my file rendered and I had lost a night of sleepy time and I was tired but I met the dead line and that is what is more important.

I love working with final cut in dual screen mode because I have a laptop and the screen gets to small when working on a long project but there is a glitch in final cut 6 under tiger and I don’t even know if it is resolved in Leo 10.5 but after a while the screen flickers the video and I have to restart final cut.  At any rate the advantage of having an extra screen to have your time line is so great because it allows you to work faster.
large-preview-with-dual-screen-track My screen setting for final cut 6 that you can load by going to windows, arrange, Load.

Cheers

Hey cheyo. I need to buy an external hard drive.. Any suggestions as to where to buy it, and what brand? Cause i really dont know much about hard drives.

From my experience:

There are two kind of external Hard Drives (HD): External, and external portable.
That is the first thing you need to deside. if you want something that you will like to leave home or something you want with you at all times.

external HD

If you something you would like to leave home there are many options specially if you just need to back up things. Now if you need something faster than USB for video recording then firewire is the choice 400, 800 or the new 1600 or even eSata depending on what your pc has. It very important to realize that these HD are not meant to be carrie arround in a backpack because the disk might get ruin which is easy to do.

Portable external HD

Meannt to be carried with you. Most of the time these tend to be smaller and are USB. My recommendation is that you get one that gets power from the laptop instead of having to plug in to a jack, it defeats the purpose of being portable.  Popular Mechanics has an article about the ones that can last longer

GET INSURANCE!!!

I can’t stress this point enough. While HD manufactures incluse standar insurance many dont recover the data and just send you a new one. With insurance you sometimes the offer to recover the valuable data for you for cheap. I cant tell you enought how much I hate to see some harddrive that a year ago cost me 500 dollars and now are just paper weights because they do not work anymore.

where?

I like the way Frys electronics way of dealing with insurance on HD and most of the time they have good offers. Alternative, BestBuy or alike also have some what alrite insurance but they seem harder to deal with.

You can find good  deals online too like newegg.com or amazon.com and tons more but maybe their insurance is not as great as being able to go to a store and talking to someone face to face.

Favorites?

LaCie, Iomega, G-tech

Post your commets or questions. Thanks

So apple released itunes 8 last week or so and I decided to give it a try because of the new feature called Genius. At first I thought it was the kinna feature that was localized meaning that it worked kinna like the way itunes tries to level all the music’s volume by ANALYZING each song for volume. Well, I can tell you that the “genius” feature doesn’t do that, instead it reads the names of the songs and compares them against its apple itunes store database then it makes suggestions, while this features might seem great for people that own all their music, It doesn’t work for people that started digitizing their CD’s back in the day Real Player and Winamp were kings. I have about 20 gigs of music (and that’s a little compared to people that have 160 gigs ipod full of music) and about half that music is not in itunes, I have a lot of underground rap, many christian unsigned bands and not to mention all my Spanish music. Hopefully the Genius apple itunes feature will be turned into something that will work for any song.

I got tired of trying to listen to my music and to tell you the truth it is hard to find something I like anymore in my library so I decided to start all over again. I am backing up my whole library and I am going to kinna follow this tutorial by djsnack.com
I have all my music backed up and I have tons of space to grow a new music library from the old by taking it little by little I should be able to tag and select only the song I want in my library anymore. None of that I’ll take any crappy music into my library anymore.

I was looking for Itunes alternative and really there might be one but not too soon. Its called SongBird and it has everything that one would like in Itunes except that it not quite there yet. I do Like to listen to my music outside of itunes and for that I use VLC (sadly as of this writing I am not able to use themes/skins in the mac but hopefully I will in the future) But mainly I want to be able to understand my music by just going to the folder structure because many DJ programs like VirtualDJ, Scratch live etc use a folder structure for the music.

Online Radio: DISCOvering new music.

Pandora.com
last.fm
SoundClick.com

Back in the day I used to use mp3.com to look for new artist and now that site is dead and its not what it used to be. SoundClick.com is kinna like mp3.com used to be but it not near what it was. I remember recording music from the FM Radio in a casset and thinking it was the coolest thing. Now one can do the same with many online radio stations.

I was so frustrated because there was a song on a online radio station that I had listen to and I could not find to buy any where. I have a mac and most of the online radio recorders work only in windows. Just by googling “record online radio stations” you might find what you need but it takes a lot of time but don’t get frustrated just take your time and be patient. I stumble upon an application for the mac called pandorajam for the mac and it looks like it can do everything I want and its cheap.

well, I talked for a while. Any comments or questions?

Just until recently, learning 3d meant to spend hours and hours trying to figure out just where to start. I know, you may know photoshop or even after effects (AF) yet AF’S 3D system is not a total 3d animation system and its what its called pseudo 3d because its not real 3d. Seen a new movie from pixar? well, we all have at some point but do you know how it works?

Well, the subject is more complex that what I can explain here but If you new to 3d or computer graphics, let me guide you.

Modeling (wikipedia) :

Usually you want to start by modeling an object. To do that you will need a program, there are many programs out there that can do this but if you are new to 3D you might want to start with an awesome program called MODO. Modo will make the modeling progress as easy are working with clay and with the amount of training that you can get for cheap on their website you will be up and running in no time. If you are familiar with photoshop you will find the layers to be what you would expect from photoshop. Once you have done a model, it is time to render it.

Rendering (wikipedia)

Rendering in modo is as easy are hitting the F10 key. It is taking a picture of the object you just model. In modo realistic results are very easy to obtain.

There is much much much more to talk about 3d but seriously. Give modo a try. The cup above, I made under five minutes with modo. They have a free trial. check it out. Let me know your experiences.

Cheers

Update Sept 14 08:

I found a great tutorial that shows how to start with modo/3d by making a cup/mug . at http://www.vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=3759
I recommend clicking in the print view and click on show pictures.
And just in case the article goes offline, vfxworldcom_modocup

Enjoy,

Your typical sunday service at my church.(jk)
On a more serious note, today is the 11 of September and of course everybody remembers and while remembering is ok, we can not afford to live in the past.

My brother and I composed a song using Garage band a few months ago. I kinna liked it. He did about 80% of it.

Enjoy.

Download    Funky Mix

Last night I went Plug In HAPPY. I found two nice plug ins. Podcasting and WP-Geo.

Pocasting plug in for word press its very nice. It allows people like me who use wordpress to make a separate rss feed for just podcast entries. I like it alot and It always adding new features. I came across WP-Geo and I loved the Idea of easiely integrating maps into my blog. As of version 2.1.2  “NEW - GeoRSS points in feeds”

After I had intalled the WP-Geo, Podcating plug in started to give me this error.

xmlns:itunes=”http://www.itunes.com/dtds/
podcast-1.0.dtd”xmlns:georss=”http://www.georss.org/georss”>

I kept typing my rss address in firefox and getting the same error. I took me 45 minutes to figure it out after activating and uninstalling plug ins. WP-GEO has a check box that will disable the feature and eventhought I had done that, Firefox has cache the rss and was giving me the error all the time even thought it was fixed.

What did I learn?

In order to troubleshoot rss feeds one must use something like http://feedvalidator.org/. Also, One needs to read the documentation before posting n00bie questions.

Also special thanks  to josh stauffer for document the delay of permalinks to appear, I would have been up until the early dawn.

-Cheers

cheers

Tim Hawkins – Cletus Take the Reel.  (English only)

On a more serious note.

I am moving back to seattle. I am allowing things to just flow and I am not going to go against the current.

Sometimes we think that we have control over every single aspect on our life when in reality there is something much much bigger that keeps things going around (wheel or reel, you pick). While I am not a philosopher, I am a pratical person and I understand the notion on timing. I moved to california in 2004 and I have now been here for nearly four years, going to school, meeting very interesting people etc. But it was just a season. I have changed so much since I have been away. Its a good thing. At anyrate, Now it feels that the current of time or should I say flow of time. Its taking me back to Seattle and It feels like the right thing. Cheers

Do you need to convert a document from Microsoft Word, Publisher or other programs? PDF Creator is a great piece of software available for download.

For those who need a photoeditor for sizing and adjusting your images, download Paint.net.

Audacity is a free audio player that allows you to record audio straight through a mic jack on yourlaptop/desktop PC. Check out Audacity’s website for more information or download the program from here .

source: AG Web Services Email

As a former intern of the California state online services I can say that california is just playing catch up to the web revolution and it is because people in charge are lazy or un-enthusiastic about their job.
There are too many chiefs and no enough Indians.

Work overload. They way I see it, manager keep handing the work load down the ladder and the poor employees in the bottom do most of the work. Maintaining a web presence is a team effort. It requires everybody to be in the same page.

I am going to pick on California DMV’s website.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/dmv.ca.gov
http://web.archive.org/web/*/ca.gov

According to one of the developers the was at dmv since the beginning ,whom I’ll call  Ramon for the purpose of the paper, said that the website started just as a handbook page. The drivers handbook was released, Ramon says that he thought it was the coolest thing at that time. Now if you visit the archive.org site, you can see the development of the website as the years go by and more and more content was added to the page. They moved from table design to css and xhtml and so forth yet the content still kept growing. Ramon said that he was hired as a fool time and then come others. The web team at dmv stated using the early version of Adobe Dreamweaver starting with version one. The team has been using dream-weaver since the beginning and their work flow has not change much in all those years. Dev on the local drive, test site and production. With hundreds of pages to be updated monthly, the work is enormous and plain. With the California mandates to maintain a Spanish site that mirrors the English site, along with accessibility mandates, the work goes to the roof top and yet the resources available are the same.   But it is no DMV’s fault for the stagnation in content management, it’s the way the system was built.

What needs to happen?

ca.gov needs to provide a way for all the departments to move all the content to databases and those databases be managed by a CMS (content management system) but databases, according to ca.gov, present a security risk and should be avoided. The system is so fragmented  that it actually serves as a security barrier because no two people know how the whole things works.

• Centralized CMS
• Database support

California government needs to embrace open source, it would save tons of money and less headaches. Move away from Microsoft servers and client software, stop trying to write everything from scratch and pick up an open source project and make it better and customized.  Embrace open source PHP and MySQL.

Popular CMS’
I would recommend drupal for its strong International support.
But DotNetNuke might be a better choice for the state since the state of california has a lot of money invested in Windows architecture plus DotNetNuke is very easy to manipulate.

How to perform an uninstall of PowerChute Personal Edition when the original disk image is no longer available on Mac OS X 10.2.x

It will be necessary for the customer to download the most current version of the install image. You may do so from http://www.apc.com/tools/download and select PowerChute Personal Edition 1.3.2

When downloading the file please note where the file is saved to. Once the file has been downloaded it is necessary to mount the installation image to their system.

You may then double click on the mounted volume to view the contents of the installation image. Within the image the customer should see an uninstall script. The customer may then just double click the icon to run the script or they may execute the script by extracting it to a local directory. You also have the option to run the script by clicking and dragging the script to an open terminal window.

It is important to note that the uninstaller needs to be run by an Admin user. If the customer does not have the proper rights they will get an error when running the script.

Once the script is initiated and completed they will get a message in the terminal window saying that “PowerChute Personal Edition has been uninstalled.” If they dragged and dropped the file into a terminal window the window may just close.

It is then safe to unmount the installation image and delete it.

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Now if you need to download the files you can go direct download page. And you don’t need to have a login. Also if you need to install PowerChute Personal Edition Mac OS Personal edition or business access to the ftp server connect to:

ftp://ftp.apcc.com/apc/public/software/macintosh/osx/

with your favorite ftp client. I like Cyberduck for the MacOS because its free and open source, also you can use Filezilla, I just prefer Cyberduck because Filezilla has drop support for Mac OS 10.4 and I still use 10.4 and I will not upgrade untill 10.6. The only thing I miss is Bento for Filemaker and backup from 10.5 other than that 10.4 is still good for me.

When ever I had to give my full name to people that were 30-40 years older than me, It seemed that the seemed to no my name. I bet the even laught when I would say “My name is José Jiménez”. Now, even thought masters3d.com is not about me, when I was creating my username, it came to me to run a google search on my name and the top of the list is a wikipedia entrie on a commidian, GREEEAAT.  Now at least in the show they say the name right and for that I would like to thank them. Everybody seems to know how to say “Jose” even thought some people say “josee” which is a girls name. But everybody get the last name wrong ‘Jimenez” is not pronounce “jim-minis” and they alway spell it wrong “jiminez”. At anyrate, if Don Adams can say it right in the 1960’s I am preaty sure people can learn how to say it now, but yet they wont. So, I think I am going to change my name to Hose A Ximenez but I like my nickname better “cheyo”.  You can call me Cheyo Ximenez.