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

Yes, I’m afraid so.  Me, a die hard linux devotee, is using Windows.  But it’s really not all that much of a crisis just a matter of convenience.  See I’m preparing to take an online art class at Schoolism and the teachers there are using photoshop for quite a few assignments.  So in an effort [...]

(This article is part of an ongoing series about my first experiences with redesigning some of my sites and blogs.  This is a live series meaning that the redesigns haven’t been deployed yet but are in development.  Each article in the series is a step in the development process as it is happening.)
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Well I was just thinking that it would be kind of neat to have a logo for HighTechSister.  So while taking a break I sketched up a few ideas.  After I came up with one I kind of liked, I tried to ink it in both GIMP and Inkscape.  Now I’m not really a digital [...]

(This article is the first in an ongoing series about my first experiences with redesigning some of my sites and blogs.  This is a live series meaning that the redesigns haven’t been deployed yet but are in development.  Each article in the series is a step in the development process as it is happening.)
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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 [...]

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

I’m still working on getting my Ubuntu + GIMP + Wacom system configure and working properly.  Yesterday almost nothing was working, but today is a new day.  I don’t think of anything as hard just challenges to overcome.  So I rebuilt and configured the linuxwacom driver with the directions listed here.  After doing this the [...]