High Tech Sister
My Daily Tech Challenges, Solutions, And Observations

Recently I’ve been thinking about web projects. Right now I’m working on one — redesigning my drawing site — and that’s going pretty well. When I hit my next milestone for it, I’ll update the status here. After doing the design in GIMP, I took some time to properly learn CSS and [...]

I was born in the small town of Mer Rouge, LA.  Actually it’s not even a town, it’s a village.  I consider it a village in decline now because the new generation of inhabitants are leaving in search of greener pastures and better opportunities.  I can’t blame them though, I left too.  But I spent [...]

With web applications, web programming, and social media being the current buzz these days, I don’t hear a lot about people getting homegrown operating systems off the ground that much.  In schools, at least the one I attended, operating systems is covered more at a theoretical level than at a practical level.  I’ve been contemplating [...]

My Internal Dilemma & Revelation
I’ve debated whether or not to even make this post, but in the end decided to go forward because it lends itself to the the overall vision I have for this site as well as my other web properties.  Over the past few weeks I’ve become involved in several foward thinking [...]

If you read my previous post you know that I was having some problems getting flash running with some of my favorite websites on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 64 bit.  There are know problems of getting flash to working well on 64bit linux machines mainly because a 64 bit flashplayer plugin doesn’t exist for linux machines.  [...]

Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 + GIMP + Wacom  = Success!  Well for the most part.  The only things that are not working are the touchstrips.  All the other express keys are configured and working properly.  Every time I use the touchstrips I get this error: daiheim kernel: [  174.494748] expresskeys[6243]: segfault at 0 rip 409133 rsp [...]

Wow today has been busy!  I am dedicating today to getting a working ubuntu + gimp + wacom environment set up.  If you’ve been following the blog, you know that this is one of the things at the top of my todo list.  The system that I am using for this project was a bit [...]

This week is going to be a big week on High Tech Sister. First off, I’m working on a series of in-depth tutorials for the OpenOffice suite; the first of which will be published this week. It’s a polished application suite that can hold it own against Microsoft’s Office Suite. I’m going to be tackling

Getting involved in the twitter community and automating you twitter updates via twitterfeed.