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Hey everybody! I’ve been laying a bit low for a little while because the team has been heads-down preparing for MAX and polishing our latest releases.

It seems crazy that only around a year ago we first announced Pixel Bender publicly! At that time we were only taking about Flash, although we had been working to make Pixel Bender plug-ins work with After Effects and Photoshop (John Nack had an excellent hint on his blog that day). This year, we’re doing a 90 minute lab on Pixel Bender every day and there are two additional Pixel Bender sessions from the Flash developer community! I’ll also be doing the lab twice in Milan at MAX Europe.

Tonight, we posted a new release of the Pixel Bender Toolkit, version 1.1. This version is newer than the one that shipped with CS4. There are some bug fixes and a great developer guide and reference put together by the developer documentation team. Also included is the promised Pixel Bender command-line compiler, PBUtil. Those of you using other tools or looking to automate your Pixel Bender workflows can use it, and those who want to create 3rd party tools can use it for both kernel and bytecode compatibility.

The most important release tonight is the Pixel Bender Plug-in for Photoshop Cs4. It supports both Pixel Bender kernels and Graphs and is accelerated for both GPUs and multi-core CPUs.

You can now use the same Pixel Bender filter in Photoshop, After Effects and Flash!

All of these releases are now available from our new labs page:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/pixelbender/

Don’t forget:
The Pixel Bender Exchange: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=26&loc=en_us
the Pixel Bender Forum: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=661&entercat=y
Pixel Bender on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pixelbender

For those at MAX SF: Brian Ronan, Bob Archer and I are will be at the Meet The Team session for the Flash team tomorrow night. Come by and say hi or find us in the halls of Moscone or the Marriot! We always want to find out what folks are doing with Pixel Bender! Unfortunately, all of the labs are full, but we will post our content after all the MAXes are over.

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Photoshop® CS3 Extended Plug-in for Google 3D Warehouse is a free plug-in that enables you to search and download 3D models from Google 3D Warehouse™ directly from Adobe® Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Once you have downloaded the plug-in, you can search Google 3D Warehouse from Photoshop CS3 Extended by going to File>Automate>Search Google for 3D Model. For more information on using the plug-in or the 3D capabilities in Photoshop CS3 Extended, see the Getting Started section below.

Downloads and Installation Instructions
The Plug-In for Google 3D Warehouse is pre-release software. It has only been tested using an English operating system with an English version of Photoshop CS3 Extended. There may be bugs or other unknown issues. There is no installer for this plug-in —you must manually place the plug-in into the Photoshop plug-ins folder.

Please follow the instructions for your platform below.

Macintosh Download & Installation Instructions
Note: This plug-in is not compatible with Leopard 10.5

Please follow the instructions below.

Ensure that you have Photoshop CS3 Extended installed.
Close all applications, including Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Download the Photoshop CS3 Extended Plug-In for Google 3D Warehouse
Double click on the DMG file. There are two plugin files, a Read Me file, and a short-cut link to the Photoshop File Formats Plug-Ins folder on your hard drive inside the DMG.
Select BOTH the Google3D.plugin and KMZ.plugin files. Drag them both to the shortcut folder titled “File Formats” (Note, this method only works for English versions of Photoshop CS3 Extended). Or, navigate to the File Formats plug-in folder manually and drag both plugin files into this folder: Applications>Adobe Photoshop CS3>Plug-Ins> File Formats.
You will be asked whether you want to replace an existing KMZ.plugin file — click “Replace”.
Close the Photoshop Plug-Ins folder.
Launch Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Go to File>Automate>Search Google for 3D Model.
Windows Download & Installation Instructions
Please follow the instructions below.

If you are using Vista operating system, you should run Photoshop and this plug-in as an administrator. If you do not have administrator control, then you will need to turn User Account Control OFF and restart your computer before installing this plug-in. To access UAC settings, go to Control Panel > User Account and Family Safety > User Accounts > Turn User Account Control on or off. See Known Issues section below for more information on using this plug-in on Vista.
Ensure that you have Photoshop CS3 Extended installed.
Close all applications, including Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Download the Photoshop CS3 Extended Plug-In for Google 3D Warehouse. There are two files: a plug-in file named Google3D.8BI and a read me file.
Navigate to the File Formats plug-in folder on your computer C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins\File Formats.
Manually drag the Google3D.8BI file into this folder and close the folder.
Launch Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Go to File>Automate>Search Google for 3D Model.
For Vista users, if you do not have administrator control, you will need to keep UAC turned off in order to use the plug-in. For Vista users with administrator control, the plug-in will function properly with UAC turned on or off.
Getting Started
Using the Plug-In
Once you have the Plug-In installed, you can search Google 3D Warehouse for 3D models by going to File>Automate>Search Google for 3D Model in Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Enter your search term and press the search button.
Navigate through the search results and select a model you’d like to download to Photoshop.
Click on the link to go to the larger view of the model. Click the “Get Model” button. Then, in the save dialog box, choose where you want to save the model to your computer.
After saving the file, the plug-in will convert the 3D model into a format that Photoshop reads (in this case KMZ, Photoshop also supports .3ds, .obj, .dae and .u3d) and then the model will open in Photoshop CS3 Extended as a 3D layer.
NOTE: If you try to open a large 3D model (over 5MB for the zipped file shown on 3D Warehouse), the conversion & opening process will be very slow. We recommend downloading models under 5 MB on Google 3D Warehouse.

Gumbo:Release Notes From Adobe Labs
Table of contents [showhide]
1 Adobe® Flex® “Gumbo” MAX 2008 Preview Release Notes

1.1 Disclaimer

2 Flex Builder Gumbo Release Notes

2.1 Flex Builder System Requirements
2.2 Documentation
2.3 Features Not Supported
2.4 Known Issues

2.4.1 General
2.4.2 Design View
2.4.3 Move Refactoring
2.4.4 Themes
2.4.5 Network Monitor
2.4.6 Profiler Enhancements
2.4.7 Editors
2.4.8 Event Handler Assistance

2.5 Data-Centric Development (DCD) Features

2.5.1 Service Wizard
2.5.2 Service Explorer
2.5.3 Configure Return Type
2.5.4 Data Management, Data Introspector & Paging
2.5.5 UI Authoring (Bind to DataGrid)

3 Flex Gumbo SDK Release Notes

3.1 About Flex Gumbo SDK
3.2 What’s New
3.3 Documentation
3.4 System Requirements
3.5 Installation Instructions
3.6 Compatibility Issues
3.7 Known Issues

3.7.1 Deep Linking
3.7.2 Effects
3.7.3 Fx
3.7.4 Gumbo Components
3.7.5 Keyboard Interaction
3.7.6 Layout
3.7.7 States
3.7.8 Styles
3.7.9 Themes
3.7.10 Transitions
3.7.11 Unspecified
3.7.12 Versioning

Adobe® Flex® “Gumbo” MAX 2008 Preview Release NotesDisclaimer
The MAX 2008 Preview build is an early preview of the software and should not be used for production work. The “Gumbo” build is not recommended for use with existing Flex 3 projects. It only includes the Flex “Gumbo” SDK and is provided for you to explore the new features with “Gumbo” projects and projects created in Flash Catalyst.

Flex Builder “Gumbo” has a 90 day trial period from the time you first launch it. If you are a Flex Builder 3 customer, your Flex Builder 3 serial number automatically extends the trial until March 2009.

Flex Builder Gumbo Release Notes

Flex Builder System Requirements
Windows
XP Pro SP2, SP3
Windows Vista - 32 bit
Macintosh
10.5.x (Leopard) Mactel only, no PPC support
Eclipse
Eclipse Plugin not supported. Delivered as Stand Alone only
Java
Sun 1.5
Data /Services Configurations
Web Server Remoting Language DB
IIS* WebORB PHP 5.2 MySQL 5.0
IIS* AMFPHP PHP 5.2 MySQL 5.0
Apache 2.2.9 WebORB PHP 5.2 MySQL 5.0
Apache 2.2.9 AMFPHP PHP 5.2 MySQL 5.0
Apache 2.2.9 ColdFusion 8 MySQL 5.0

*Support for IIS 7.0 for Windows Vista and IIS 6.0 for Windows XP
Only WSDL 2.0 support for Web Services
Documentation
The Flex Gumbo MAX Preview Features and Migration Guide contains the following chapters that document what’s new with this release:

Exam 102: Tasks and Sample Questions

LPI Level 1 exam 102 tests basic capabilities in these areas:
Kernel
Boot, Initialization, Shutdown and Runlevels
Printing
Documentation
Shells, Scripting, Programming, and Compiling
Administrative Tasks
Networking Fundamentals
Networking Services
Security
Sample Questions

The following are sample questions relating to LPI Exam 102. None of these items actually appear on the real exam, but they were actual submissions and are representative of the types of questions and the content covered by the exam. Please note however that the items below are flawed in some way and have been rejected; they are presented only as an illustration.
OBJECTIVE: 1.1.1 TYPE: mc

Which command is used to change settings on IDE hard disk drives?

1. hdparm
2. hddparm
3. diskparm
4. hdparam
5. ideconfig
OBJECTIVE: 1.12.1 TYPE: mc

Your logfile shows repeated connections to TCP port 143. Which named service is being accessed?

1. imap
2. smbd
3. nmbd
4. pop2
5. smtp
OBJECTIVE: 1.12.1 TYPE: fitb

What type of packet does an IP ping use (provide acronym)?

1. ICMP
OBJECTIVE: 1.12.2 TYPE: mc

To learn more about the management of an Internet site, the best utility to use would be:

1. whois
2. traceroute
3. ping
4. telnet
5. rpcdump
OBJECTIVE: 1.12.3 TYPE: mc

If you had a Linux system routing 3 different Networks through 3 NICs and you were having trouble with your IP-Forwarding. Where would you look to ensure that IP-Forwarding is actually enabled?

1. cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
2. netstat
3. cat /proc/net/tcp
4. iptraf -d eth0
5. tail -f /var/log/messages
OBJECTIVE: 1.13.1 TYPE: mc

What file is used for associating port numbers to port names?

1. /etc/services
2. /etc/hosts
3. /etc/inetd.conf
4. /etc/securetty
5. /etc/ports
OBJECTIVE: 1.13.4 TYPE: mc

You want to make the directory /local available via NFS. All users on your local network should be allowed to read and write files. Which of the following is correct, assuming that your local network is 192.168.1.0, and your machine is part of the DNS domain foobar.com?

1. /local 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
2. /local *.com(rw)
3. 192.168.1.0 /local
4. /local 192.168.1.0(rw)
Top OBJECTIVE: 1.14.1 TYPE: fitb

Which file can you create to prevent non-root users from logging into the system? (specify path and filename)

1. /etc/nologin
OBJECTIVE: 1.14.2 TYPE: fitb

What command can be used to display a formatted output of the wtmp file? (no arguments)

1. last
OBJECTIVE: 1.14.3 TYPE: fitb

Which command can be executed by a user who is already logged into the system, in order to change to the root user? (type the command without any parameters)

1. su
OBJECTIVE: 1.7.2 TYPE: mc

To cause a particular print job to be printed next, regardless of its current position in the queue, what command would be used?

1. lpc topq
2. lpc -t
3. lpq -t
4. lpq –next
5. lpc move
OBJECTIVE: 1.7.2 TYPE: mc

Which statement describes the LPD daemon?

1. Manages the printing subsystem
2. Manages all incoming connections and spawns off child processes
3. Is responsible for file sharing across a network
4. Manages scheduling of routine system tasks
5. Keeps track of system messages and errors
OBJECTIVE: 2.10.4 TYPE: mc

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Pass4side latest release exam lpi 117-102 Detailed Objectives

This is a required exam for LPI certification Level 1. It covers basic skills for the Linux Professional that are common across all distributions of Linux.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: These are the current 102 objectives, which are valid effective 2006-01-01. The 102 exams which are delivered through test centers all over the world, will reflect these updated objectives for English in early 2006 and all other languages by late 2006/early 2007. Candidates should be prepared to take exams based upon these objectives after 1Q2006.

Each objective is assigned a weighting value. The weights range roughly from 1 to 10 and indicate the relative importance of each objective. Objectives with higher weights will be covered in the exam with more questions.

Maintainer: Dimitrios “Taki” Bogiatzoules, Product Developer
Last modification: 2005-12-31
Topic 105: Kernel

1.105.1 Manage/Query kernel and kernel modules at runtime
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Weight: 4

Description: Candidates should be able to manage and/or query a kernel and kernel loadable modules.

Key knowledge area(s):
Use command-line utilities to get information about the currently running kernel and kernel modules.
Manually load and unload kernel modules.
Determine when modules can be unloaded.
Determine what parameters a module accepts.
Configure the system to load modules by names other than their file name.

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
/lib/modules/kernel-version/modules.dep
/etc/modules.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf
depmod
insmod
lsmod
rmmod
modinfo
modprobe
uname

1.105.2 Reconfigure, build and install a custom kernel and kernel modules
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Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to customize, build and install a kernel and kernel loadable modules from source.

Key knowledge area(s):
Customize the current kernel configuration.
Build a new kernel and appropriate kernel modules.
Install a new kernel and any modules.
Ensure that the boot manager can locate the new kernel and associated files.

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
/usr/src/linux/*
/usr/src/linux/.config
/lib/modules/kernel-version/*
/boot/*
make
make targets: all, config, menuconfig, xconfig, gconfig oldconfig, modules, install, modules_install, depmod, rpm-pkg, binrpm-pkg, deb-pkg
Topic 106: Boot, Initialization, Shutdown and Runlevels

1.106.1 Boot the system
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Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to guide the system through the booting process.

Key knowledge area(s):
Give commands to the boot loader and options to the kernel at boot time.
Check boot events in the log files.

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
/var/log/messages
/etc/modules.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf
dmesg
LILO
GRUB

1.106.2 Change runlevels and shutdown or reboot system
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Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to manage the runlevel of the system. This objective includes changing to single user mode, shutdown or rebooting the system. Candidates should be able to alert users before switching runlevel and properly terminate processes. This objective also includes setting the default runlevel.

Key knowledge area(s):
Set the default runlevel.
Change between run levels including single user mode.
Shutdown and reboot from the command line.
Alert users before switching runlevels or other major system event.
Properly terminate processes.