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

A while back I did a post on getting the wacom intuos3 tablet working with gimp on a 64 bit ubuntu hardy machine.  While I got most everything working, I was still having some trouble with expresskeys.  Mainly the touch strips would cause expresskeys to segfault on my machine whenever I tried to use them [...]

Some of the sites that I like most are the ones that show artists or programmers workspaces. I don’t know why, I just like seeing where people do their work. So here are a few pictures of my workspace.
This picture basically shows my main desk. This is where I do most of [...]

I have a Xerox Phaser 3400 laser printer. Yes it is an older printer, but it is extremely reliable especially for printing text documents. The linux drivers are available here. I have it installed as a network printer on my network. When I initially tried setting it up on my Ubuntu [...]

As some you who’ve been keeping up with the blog know, I’m going to do the thirty day challenge to see what it is all about. Right now it is in its pre-season which entails getting your computer set up with the tools that are going to be used throughout the challenge. I [...]

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.  [...]

Well I was supposed to finish my openoffice tutorial, but I have been consumed trying to figure out why npviewer.bin is experiencing segmentation faults when going to certain sites.  One of my favorite sites, imeem. Does not work with my Hardy 64bit system since it updated its site design a couple of weeks ago.  I’ve [...]

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