Are You Still There, My Gremlins?

I have been running my Mac Pro and the Cintiq with the bootable drive that has 10.5.3 in it for three days straight now.  Previously, I installed the latest driver from Wacom, which I posted here, but it still crashed, which I ranted about here and here.  
I was just hating it. Here’s a typical [...]

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Getting My Groove Back

There’s more going on behind the scenes here than me just sitting in front of my workstation working and my Mac Pro and Cintiq refusing to play nice with each other.  One of them is that I started to pick up playing the guitar once more.
I am just a novice, mind you.  I started to [...]

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Hello, Crash.

Well, what do you know.  I just posted something about waiting for the inevitable crash and I had one.
It’s really sad.
Anyone out there who knows how to solve this issue, I would welcome it.  I just could not get any from Wacom Support, so I am throwing it out there.
Meanwhile, I’ll still continue working with [...]

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So Far, So Good…Really?

I mentioned in a previous post that while running my new configuration in line with troubleshooting all the crashes that I have been having with the Mac Pro, Adobe Flash CS3, and the Wacom Cintiq, that I was not getting any error messages from the Console anymore.
That is not entirely true as of this Sunday [...]

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So Far, So Good…

For the past three hours this early morning of Saturday, I’ve been working with bated breath, risking a full blown crash once again now that I am running Mac OS X 10.5.3 and the Cintiq with the new Wacom Tablet Driver that was just released.  I have cloned my crash-free volume of Mac OS X, [...]

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Getting Into The Nitty Gritty.

Now that I have finished my animation and posing assignment for this week (and before I start working on next week’s workload this weekend) I’ve decided to do some nitty gritty trouble shooting stuff to clear my issues with the Mac Pro and the Cintiq.
I’ve mentioned in an earlier post that there was a new [...]

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Wacom Releases New Tablet Driver.

Reader Bryan commented on my post where I downgraded from Mac OS X 10.5.3 to 10.5.1 just so I could work with the Cintiq crash-free. Bryan also put to my attention the availability of a new Wacom Tablet Driver that can be found here.
The driver is in what’s called a release candidate, meaning it [...]

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Goodbye, Van.

Our 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan finally got sold yesterday, June 18.

We had to let it go.  My wife and I leased a smaller car, a Honda Civic, so that she can have something smaller to practice her driving with.  Since we now use the Honda on our daily commute to her work and back, the [...]

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Interview For My Cool Job.

I did an email interview for Carrie Lowery, who maintains a blog about cool jobs that you can find here.
Carrie asked me for an interview almost two months but I only got to reply back to her just this week. Actually, I made a reply months ago, but for some strange reason that email [...]

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Downgrade from Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 Looking Good.

After so many frustrating crashes with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 and Adobe Flash CS3 and the Wacom Cintiq 20WSX’s driver, I decided to revert back to 10.5.1, the original version of the OS when I first got my Mac Pro and the same state of everything the first time I installed the Cintiq.
Everything was [...]

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