Here are a couple of my recent runs around Misawa. I think one of these times I’ll take a few pictures during my run (Similar to YES MAN?). That might make it more interesting.
Here’s my first sketch on my new Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch. I purchased this with MUCH doubt it would work well with Ubuntu; I am VERY happily surprised! Don’t let this sketch fool you; it’s only my lack of practice with a decent tablet and sketching ability that bring out the simplicity on the sketch.
First Sketch with Wacom Bamboo
I did some other things with it before the sketch; but this is the first one I sat down and tried to draw something with (The leaves and tree twig were first, car second and circular squiggles last).
I had to manually perform some settings since Wacom doesn’t “officially” support Linux. Initially it was a matter of compiling the drivers and starting the modules (and entering them into /etc/modules) but after it started working I realized AGAIN, it is a right handed world out there! So not only am I using a far superior operating system (Linux) I am also one of the awesome crowd of lefties that due to the adverse racism against us has become better as a result. So NEAH! It works for my left handed ass now too!
I will eventually crawl into the bowels of the configuration and change some things; but for now it’s heads and shoulders better than the tablet I was trying to get working (can’t remember the name off the top of my head). Right now I have no clue what the side buttons on the tablet are supposed to represent. Right now the top and bottom buttons open my desktop menu and slam the mouse pointer far left top screen. The middle (nearest the light on the tablet) buttons seem to kind of right click and jerk the poor mouse courser all the way far left screen top also.
I will continue to play with it. I’ve mainly been using the Gimp and Inkscape (I’m falling in love with Inkscape). But it works just as well spanned across both of my monitors (Surprisingly it doesn’t make my circles ovals even though the tablet is only barely equivalent to widescreen.
Something I’m going to have to overcome is that I normally draw with my paper seriously cocked to the left (almost straight up and down actually). I also tend to spin my paper a little as I draw to make some lines easier. This SO doesn’t work when using a tablet. My mind melted when I turned it how I normally would to draw with. Stuff to get used too; can’t wait to play with it on something I could call a project!
I’ve been trying to re-install Ubuntu 10.04 the last day or so; but it always seems to hang towards the end (ain’t that always the case). So I re-installed 9.10 and am letting it self upgrade to 10.04 as I type this.
Something I forgot about 9.10 is it’s awesome way of spanning dual monitors (unlike 10.04 or Windows); so I took a screen shot and am posting it here for all to see.
A Comet very much like mine; heavily edited for my desktop.
I’m pooped; have a good night and come visit again soon;
Justin
