November 25, 2003

After Effects - Bleach Bypass

Bleach Bypass
Name: Rick Gerard
Date: Oct 18, 2002 at 12:59 gmt
Subject:   Bleach Bypas + Blue w transfer modes.
I posted this forumula below but it's kind of lost in the thread. I thought it may be of some interest to those messing with color.
Try this idea for your blue bleach bypass look:
Using 3 copies of your original footage and a blue solid set up a comp like this:

  • Layer 1, copy of the original, transfer mode normal

  • Layer 2, Blue solid, Track matte set to layer 1 luma

  • Layer 3, copy of the original, transfer mode vivid light, opacity 30%

  • Layer 4, original, normal.

Pretty cool. Isn't it amazing what you can do with transfer modes. Adding some blur the the vivid light layer is also an interesting effect.

Posted by erik at 01:31 PM | Comments (1520)

November 24, 2003

Webhosting Direct Payment

Make a Donation or Payment
For payments please, add .05% +.30 for transaction fees. X*1.05+.30 = total bill
http://www.dreamhost.com/donate.cgi?id=962

Posted by erik at 02:26 AM | Comments (2711)

Simple PHP Quiz Application

Creating a Quiz Application.
Creating a Survey - writing to a text file.
i.e. leeandgrant.com
Multi Part Forms - nice!

Posted by erik at 12:36 AM | Comments (1920)

November 23, 2003

test images 3

Another testing of images...

Posted by erik at 11:15 PM | Comments (4510)

November 17, 2003

Klein Custom Paint Design Competition

http://www.kleinbikes.com/us/custom/design_competition.html
http://www.kleinbikes.com/us/custom/design_competition_winner.html
Q-Pro Design Competition Form (PDF)

Palomino Design Competition Form (PDF)

During last year's Custom Paint Contest, more than 600 artists sent us their vision of a great Klein finish. Eric Lynn, Klein's senior graphic designer and paint specialist, had the tough job of selecting the winning entry. Kevin Maguire's X-Ray took the prize and will be offered in the 2004 Custom Palette. Matt Bolt and Michael Locher were both runner ups.
The 2004 contest winner will receive his or her choice of a custom painted Palomino or Q-Pro in his or her winning paint scheme, which will also become a color option in Klein's 2005 Custom Palette. Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
1. Color palette
2. Graphic movement
3. Ease of production execution
The 2004 Contest has begun and the deadline for entries is January 1st, 2004. Read the official rules to download the appropriate entry form.

Posted by erik at 06:20 PM | Comments (944)

November 13, 2003

Job Searches

Creative Hotlist
Emoonlighter
Talent Zoo

Creative Hotlist is a customizable online application for connecting talent, companies and services. Much more than a job site for the creative community, Creative Hotlist has a sophisticated search engine and enables users to find individuals, companies and resources for any aspect of the creative marketplace including job openings, creative services, artists, designers, programmers, printers, service bureaus, schools and clubs.

Emoonlighter is the ultimate resource for businesses to find top freelance and contract talent, even in their own local area.

You certainly know the kind of people you long for. They're smart, they're talented, they require little, if any, help from you. And they don't constantly make the traffic person want to run, screaming, into a pit of fire. You know how to find these people, but it takes good, hard research, and you, as usual, have five projects due today. You're just too damn busy. Talent Zoo can find you those people, in any position, from creative to accounting. Talent Zoo uses more than just your job description to place people. A dyslexic monkey can do that (no offense to dyslexic monkeys). Candidates must have skills that not only get them hired, but keep you happy for a long time after. They must know things, like the purpose of a time sheet. The best part is that Talent Zoo will save you the cost of having to re-train new people every few months, and will spare you the long, painful process of pouring over resume after resume. Like you have the time.

Posted by erik at 01:41 PM | Comments (1809)

November 12, 2003

Firewire Target Disk mode - 8.6

http://www.macresq.com/store/qtips030721.php

"Every Mac released after the Blue & White G3 & PCI Graphics G4 (and PowerBooks starting with the Pismo) has the ability to be run as an external FireWire hard drive! Just boot with the "T" key held down at startup until the blue screen with the bouncing FireWire symbol pops up, then plug it via the FireWire port directly into the other Mac. It's hard drive will mount on the other machine's desktop just like an external hard drive!"

The interesting answer I have involves the computer you're plugging the machine running in Target Disk Mode into.

Technically, the other machine has to be running OS 9.2.2 (9.1 minimum) to see the Target Disk Mode machine's hard drive, although it doesn't
have to have built-in FireWire.

I've found that as long as the other machine is running OS 8.6 and above that you can place the 2 files "FireWire Enabler 2.8.5" and "FireWire Support 2.8.5" from an OS 9.2.2 Extensions Folder into the Extensions folder of the other machine, restart it, and it'll recognize any Target Disk Mode computer plugged into its FireWire port!

Sometimes in a pinch, dragging 2 files into an Extensions folder and restarting is way easier and less time consuming than installing a new OS.

Posted by erik at 09:44 AM | Comments (1005)

November 11, 2003

MT as CMS

Beyond the Blog and other links on making MovableType a Content Managment System - http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/archives/000913.shtml

Adaptive Path’s MT Setup - http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2003/07/11/adaptive_paths_mt_setup.html

Relative Paths in MT - http://scott.typepad.com/delimiter/2003/07/relative_paths_.html

Doing your whole site with MT - http://www.bradchoate.com/past/001656.php

http://www.kottke.org/03/11/cooperative-web-services
"I have seen the future of the web and it is the Gothamist events page. Here's how it works. Gothamist's editors use free tools and information (in the form of events already listed in the system) from upcoming.org to compile events that are happening in NYC and then publish those events to the site using Movable Type to pull in upcoming.org's RSS feeds. Gothamist's readers can add their own events to upcoming.org, which, if they wish, the editors can then add to the events page."

Using the upcoming.com RSS feeds in MT - http://www.hitormiss.org/archives/001808.php

http://www.upcoming.org
"Upcoming.org is a collaborative event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Enter in the events you're attending, comment on events entered by others, and syndicate event listings to your own weblog. As Upcoming.org learns more about the events you enjoy, it will suggest new events you never would have heard about."

Create a links database with MT - http://exp.hicksdesign.co.uk/articles/archives/000181.php

Posted by erik at 07:15 AM

November 09, 2003

Jeffrey Zeldman does it again...

Jeffrey Zeldman on Coding for Easier Redesigns

"Slowly, and not without growing pains, web professionals are transitioning from old-school HTML table layouts to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) backed by streamlined, structural XHTML markup. Successfully making the transition requires a change in thinking. As designers, we're trained to see web pages as pure visual layouts — like print you can click. But a standards-conscious designer won't even think about how a page looks until she has first figured out its underlying structure." - Jeffrey Zeldman

Posted by erik at 11:42 PM | Comments (9447)

Installation for another day

  1. Installing CUPS:
    • http://207.182.33.22/contribs/rvandenaker/beta/e-smith-cups/documentation/
    • rpm -Uvh *.rpm
    • /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
    • /sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot
  2. Add and configure printers through the CUPS web interface
  3. Setup clients

'curl - O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/cups-1.1.19-8smea1.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/cups-libs-1.1.19-8smea1.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/e-smith-base-4.12.5-03+cups.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/e-smith-cups-0.0.3-03.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/e-smith-locale-fr_CA-1.4.1-07+cups.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/e-smith-netatalk-1.10.0-01+cups.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/e-smith-samba-1.8.0-01+cups.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/ghostscript-7.05.6-0smea2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/ghostscript-fonts-6.0-3smea1.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/gimp-print-4.2.5-0smea3.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/gimp-print-cups-4.2.5-0smea3.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/hpijs-1.4.1-0smea2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/libtiff-3.5.7-2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/samba-2.2.7-3.7.3es1+cups2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/samba-client-2.2.7-3.7.3es1+cups2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://207.182.33.22/contribs/saco/beta/e-smith-cups/SME5.6/samba-common-2.2.7-3.7.3es1+cups2.i386.rpm'

Posted by erik at 03:29 PM | Comments (9870)

Installing e-smith updates and CDR/W

Instructions on how I installed e-smith 5.6 updates and CDR/W writing capabilities to my local server.

get the e-smith updates:

'curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-backup-1.10.1-04.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-base-4.12.5-03.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-hosts-1.10.1-01.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-ipmasq-1.8.2-01.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-locale-fr_CA-1.4.1-07.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-mailfront-1.0.0-02.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-nutUPS-0.0.2-11.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-openssh-1.8.1-02.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-proftpd-1.8.0-02.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/e-smith-wu-imap-1.6.0-02.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/flexbackup-0.9.8-07es.noarch.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/initscripts-6.67-1es12c.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/mppe/ppp-mppe-modules-2.4.2-4es.i586.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/nut-1.2.0-1es2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/nut-client-1.2.0-1es2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/openssh-3.7.1p1-1es2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/openssh-clients-3.7.1p1-1es2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/openssh-server-3.7.1p1-1es2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/ppp-2.4.2b2-1es2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/pptpd-1.1.3-3es2.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.8p-es1.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/samba-2.2.7-3.7.3es1.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/samba-client-2.2.7-3.7.3es1.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/samba-common-2.2.7-3.7.3es1.i386.rpm ; curl -O http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/updates/5.6/updates/RPMS/xinetd-2.3.7-4.7x.i386.rpm'

install the e-smith updates:
  • rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs *.rpm

  • /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade

  • /sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot


Setup CDR/W
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mkisofs-1.10-11.i386.rpm
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/cdrecord-1.10-11.i386.rpm
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/cdda2wav-1.10-11.i386.rpm
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/cdrecord-devel-1.10-11.i386.rpm

Install webCDwriter
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/audiofile-0.2.3-1.i386.rpm
ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/esound-0.2.22-5.i386.rpm
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.1/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mpg123-0.59r-10.i386.rpm
curl -O http://129.70.4.38/download/webCDwriter-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm

Install all the files in the order that they appear.
rpm -Uvh audiofile-0.2.3-1.i386.rpm 
rpm -Uvh esound-0.2.24-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh mpg123-0.59r-10.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh webCDwriter-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm

Before you start CDWserver, edit ' /etc/CDWserver/config ' to your needs.
The default for the maximum speed of the CDR is set to 8x you may like to increase this depending on your hardware

Note from Ben: I haven’t tested the webstart config but it appears to be similar to what is required would like some feedback from someone who tries it.

Install the java plugin on the machine/s you will be using to access webCDcreator.
If you will be using java web start make sure to configure apache correctly,
edit/create /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/mime.types/JavaWebStart.jnlp
put this two lines below in 'JavaWebStart.jnlp'


--------------------------------------------
# For java web start
application/x-java-jnlp-file jnlp
--------------------------------------------

rebuild /etc/mime.types
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/mime.types
restart apache
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Finally start CDWserver

/etc/rc.d/init.d/CDWserver start

Go to a workstation, open a browser, go to http://[your server address]:12411

Posted by erik at 03:17 PM | Comments (716)

SCSI > IDE

http://www.acard.com/eng/product/scside/ars-2000fu.html
Found in this post

How to get a drive totally f'd up - 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda' or so they say... it works.

'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1' is much much faster

Posted by erik at 04:31 AM

How to GUI a locked directory

In Knoppix -
1) mount drive on desktop
2) open a 'root shell'
3) navigate to desired folder
4) 'kfmclient exec .'

Posted by erik at 03:48 AM | Comments (5359)

CD-R on Server

http://cd-utils.sourceforge.net/e-smith-info.html
http://gateway.interworx.com.au/smepublic/howto/5.6/cdrecord/CDWriter-howto.htm
http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter/
http://gateway.interworx.com.au/smepublic/howto/5.6/webCDwriter/webCDWriter-howto.htm

www.contribs.org IP Address: http://207.182.33.22/
search contribs.org: http://207.182.33.22/weblinks/search.php

Posted by erik at 01:03 AM | Comments (1686)

November 08, 2003

Photo Test 2

test 2

Posted by erik at 05:44 PM | Comments (8693)

Picture Test

LA_Vietnamese_Restaurant.jpg

This is a test of image uploads.

Posted by erik at 03:28 AM | Comments (8088)

Hellloooo!

And thus it begins... I final have gotten the time and know how to setup a Moveable Type blog. To be honest I fell a bit like a wannabe since it's so late in the game, but at least I'm using MT and got it running painlessly by myself.

So here's to the start of a beautiful relationblogship...

Mabuhay!

Posted by erik at 02:19 AM | Comments (708)