Remember The Titanic

That was how I named this my oil painting back in 2007. Pulled it out of some dark corner when tidying up my studio. I guess it will cost gazillions after when I die.

As for the march of Linuxes on my Fujitsu Lifebook T5010, I have a temporary stop on Linux Mint 16 Xfce 64 bit before going to the latest Xubuntu and/or Kubuntu. For my T5010, they are all crap, but some are less crappier: like KDE dailies of Ubuntu 14.04 where calibrators are technically able to calibrate non-evdev devices, like my freaking Wacom stylus on Wacom screen. I said "able" which in this case means just that: able, but not really doing any re-calibration, offering you an option do it manually.

X must die! Together with X.org and everyone who's there doing exactly nothing. After one lecture on Wayland I know that original developers of X/X11are all dead now of natural causes and substances mostly. Those who are still alive, can't understand what was done back in 70's by those original dead heroes. So they can't do anything.  Now, where's my Linux Mint Wayland? Or MIR, whichever comes first?

Like I said before, the default calibration can be called passable for a lefty but unworkable for an artist with predominant right-hand grip. Yet the default is called "Right hand". Then, the calibration doesn't know anything about stylus tilt which is obviously present and detected, how dumb is that? All three photos above have stylus tip actually touching the screen, so the problem is also aggravated by distinctive parallax born out of screen air gap for this ancient screen: model of 2007, like my Remember The Titanic here.

Откуда у них такая правая рука растет с левым уклоном, никто не знает.

Dumber is only ArtistX's default keyboard which generates random substitution ciphers on the fly. Right, good artists are not typists, they are Artists. Substance abuse, again.


Of course, there's no hope anyone would care to compile Fujitsu button kernel driver against kernels of 3.12+ maturity.

In other news, I won't be looking for Dell Venue 8 Pro from now on, except for when it will end up at fire sale for $99 very soon. I'm after ASUS Vivotab Note 8 for $299, as it's rumoured to offer normal, very precise Wacom screen/stylus instead of that Dell/Synaptics disaster. We'll see it at CES 2014.