I started reporting the crashes here.  By then, I was running under 10.5.3.

The most stable so far was when I run the Cintiq under 10.5.1.  This was the configuration that I had when I first took delivery and operated the Cintiq.  I could not remember experiencing any crashes back then.

I had to downgrade by reinstalling Leopard and all my other applications.  I installed a new hard drive on my Mac Pro and installed the fresh new Leopard on that volume, keeping the problematic configuration on the stock hard drive.

As I suspected, everything worked fine under 10.5.1 and I was able to work problem free for a week. However, I could not resist trying out the new Tablet Driver that Wacom released.  So I cloned the new hard drive onto the stock hard drive, virtually deleting the problematic configuration on that drive.  I then rebooted to that volume, performed a software update to get it back to 10.5.3, and installed the new driver.

It still crashed.

By that time, Wacom emailed me back and told me that there were haxies running in my system.  They found this out from the crash logs that I sent them.  They told me to remove these as they are causing incompatibilities and may be the culprit to the instability that I was experiencing with my system.

Still under 10.5.3, I performed this procedure to remove said culprit.

I was able to run this configuration for a number of days problem free, except for those two crashes that occurred recently.  Those crashes were kernel panics, and there was no mention of the Wacom Tablet Driver being the cause of the crash.  So, the haxies removal may have solved it.

Enter 10.5.4, Apple's latest software update.  I may be wishfully thinking right now, but I have been sending my crash reports to Apple and maybe they have included some software fix to this update version.

So this morning, I updated the volume running 10.5.1, the one on the new hard drive, to 10.5.4.  To do that, I first removed all Wacom Tablet Preferences and removed the driver itself.  Once the software update was complete, I performed the haxies removal procedure and once rebooted, I downloaded the latest Wacom Tablet Driver once again and installed it.

So there you go.  Crossing fingers once again and throwing all caution to the wind, I intend to run under this configuration.  Wish me luck!

Seit über 10 Jahren hatte er hunderte Diskussionen über das "warum", "ob" und "wieso". Ihr Apple-User kennt das, da heißt es immer: "Da ist doch alles anders", "Ich krieg ja keine Software dafür" [also "gebrannte Software", Ihr versteht?], "Ich will aber alles installieren können, was es am Markt gibt", "ähh, so teuer", "naja, sieht ja schick aus, aber ich weiß nicht...", "Windows-PCs haben doch alle, das will ich auch", usw. usw...

Ein bißchen hatte Webwomel schon aufgegeben. Milliarden Fliegen können sich nicht irren - Hundekot muß gut riechen.

Axel-Springer, wißt Ihr was Euer Problem sein wird? Vielen Eurer Mitarbeiter wird es schwer fallen, sich an die leichte Bedienung zu gewöhnen :-)

Schon verrückt - da hat eine ganze (PC-)Generation in Schulungen, Support, BugFixing und Wartung investiert... und nun das. Und ich höre schon die PC-geprägten Leute fluchen: "Das ist doof, das ist anders". Übersetzt heißt das: "Das ist so leicht in der Bedienung, das versteh ich nicht, ich war es komplizierter gewöhnt". Springer, stellt Euch auf zwei bis drei Quartale  Kulturschock ein!! ;-)

Klar, Apple-Rechner sind auch nur Mensch... äh. Computer. Aber man ist viel produktiver, weil weniger Zeit für Treiber-Problem oder DLL-Fehlermeldungen flöten geht. Mal abgesehen davon, daß das Fundament ein UNIX-Betriebssystem ist (sehr vereinfacht gesagt): Eine Art Linux mit cremig zarter Bedienoberfläche.

Spannend ist nur die Frage, ob man anwendungsseitung auch auf Apple umsteigt. Wird dann die Korrespondenz mit "Pages" geschrieben? Kalkulationen mit "Numbers" gerechnet? Oder MS Exchange abgeschafft und nur noch mit "Mail" gearbeitet? Werden Photos dann mit Aperture verwaltet? Bei aller Apfelliebe, schwer vorstellbar ;-) Demnach müßte ja auf allen Rechnern Windows laufen. Komische Welt. Aber dennoch ein Schritt in die richtige Richtung hinsichtlich Ergonomie, Sicherheit und Produktivität.

Nunja, ein Lichtblick nach über 10 Jahren. Die Vernunft scheint sich doch durchzusetzen. Gute Entscheidung, Prost auf die IT-Abteilung.

meint
Webwombel.

Pros
-Thin
-Light
-Sleek

Cons
-Price
-Not a Full keyboard
-Type for a long time may cause your fingers to be sore.

A interface revela a todo o momento, a velocidade que seria alcançada com um overclock.

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Ela só é compatível com a última versão do Leopard e com esses modelos.
Como mostra a imagem, a aplicação é muito intuitiva, mostrando a todo momento a velocidade que se alcançaria com o overclock.

I was just hating it. Here's a typical stare down between me and the darn things:

That's a genuine frown over there!  Too bad it was taken in profile; had I taken a frontal view, you could have seen the walnut-crushing crow's feet on my forehead!

I was running on 10.5.1 when I got an email from Wacom Support suggesting a fix. They said that from the crash log files that I sent them they found some haxies and that I should remove them because these are what probably is causing my crashes.

From my short stint googling for information, these haxies are probably from something called Application Enhancer, a third party app that, well, as the name suggested, enhances some apps. Haha, you can judge by my expert explanation how knowledgeable I am about that!

Anyway, it was worth a try to seek out these so called "haxies" and remove them from my system. I booted up to the 10.5.3 running and threw caution to the wind. I googled a "how to remove haxies" and tried the procedures from some of the hits that I found, but I was having a hard time finding the folders or files that point to them in my System file.  Apparently, they do not exist in my current configuration. Remember, I reinstalled Mac OS X.  Whatever app that had these probably are not there anymore.

I was not taking any chances, however, and decided to dig some more.  I found a way to remove them but I had to do it at the Terminal level.  The article can be found here.  I had to use the command line to remove whatever application enhancement software I had on my Mac.  It was some really scary stuff for me because I have not done anything of that sort.  However, after completing the procedure, I was able to safely reboot the Mac Pro and proceeded to do my work.

I have been running at it for three days straight and I had no crash so far.  Hmmm, could it be that that was the solution?

Coincidentally, Apple released another update, 10.5.4!  I have not done any software update yet, but I probably will.  I have been sending all the crash reports to Apple and maybe they took some notice and did a fix?  What wishful thinking!  But I will do a software update and will try to see how far this thing will go.

I intend to do a timeline of all this things once I finally find that everything has been ironed out (if at all). Everything right now is looking surprisingly good so far.  If it goes on like this for another week, I will probably update the other hard drive, the one I intended to be my start up disk which was running problem free under 10.5.1, to get it up to speed.

Well, knock on wood!

The more interesting point is that this has been released at all. The PC overclocking field is well established but until now there has been little of interest for overclocking Apple Macs. It's different in the hackintosh realm, where overclocking the Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad is well documented and common. My own hackintosh has been running an overclocked Core 2 Quad 6600 at 3Ghz (up from the stock 2.4Ghz) for several months. This is set from the Bios and doesn't appear to have any effect on OSx's timekeeping ability.

Read the article and download the overclocking tool at ZDNet.de

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 this configuration and try to get as many crash report as I can the whole day and then revert back to my crash-free configuration.

That is not entirely true as of this Sunday morning.

When I opened up the Console to see if everything was fine, lo and behold, it was filled up with messages again, and some of these are the same ones that I used to see before, messages from the configuration that crashed a lot.

Oh well, there goes my rising confidence.  It's slowly sagging once again and I work in constant vigilance, always worried that this configuration will crash too anytime soon.

To it's credit, this current configuration was incident free since I started working with it yesterday morning. I was at it for 8 hours straight.

Crossing fingers and knocking on wood.  That is where all this issues has come to.  Sigh.

So far, so good.

It looks very promising.  I have opened the Console and found no error messages so far.  When I started launching the Console during those crashes, the Console would churn out a lot of messages.  Now, it is all clear.  Can it be that the gremlins have been chased away?

For documentation's sake, here is what I have done:  I've reinstalled Mac OS X on a new hard drive.  I made a fresh install of Adobe Flash CS3 and the latest Wacom Tablet driver of that moment, Driver 6.05-3 for Mac OS X. Initially, I did not do any software updates whatsoever to both OS X and Adobe Flash CS3, electing to run the configuration for a number of days to see if a crash will occur.  I encountered none.

Enter Friday, where I got a heads up from a reader of this blog that a new driver has been released, Driver 6.08-2 (RC) for Mac OS X.  I decided to bite the bullet and do some Software Updating to see if I will be lucky.

First, I did a Repair Disk Permission to the crash free, 10.5.1 running harddrive.

Once Repair Disk Permission was completed, I restarted my machine.

I then used Super Duper to clone that harddrive to the other volume that contained that troublesome configuration, virtually erasing it.

Once the cloning was complete, I booted using the harddrive containing that cloned version.

I immediately removed all Tablet preferences and then removed the Wacom Tablet Driver.

I did a Software Update for Mac OS X and installed 10.5.3.

I then downloaded all the latest updates for Adobe Flash CS3.

Once these two were completely updated, I then downloaded that latest Wacom Tablet Driver and installed it.

As I've said before, I have been using it for some three hours, incident free and, from looking at the Console messages, error free.

The new driver might have fixed the issue.  Installing all the latest updates for both Mac OS X and Adobe Flash CS3 seems to have smoothed out everything too, Adobe Flash CS3 in particular, for  I remember dismissing and canceling one or two software update notices for Adobe Flash in the last few weeks because I did not wanted to be interrupted with my ongoing work.  That must have been my mistake and may have been one of the many reasons why these crashes have been occurring.

So with crossed-fingers, I look forward to working for the next few days with this current configuration and settings.

Better get back to work.  Let's see if I am correct with these assumptions.  Wish me luck!

I've mentioned in an earlier post that there was a new driver for the Wacom. It is still in release candidate version, not the final version yet. But that has not stopped me from trying it out.

I've cloned my crash-free Mac OS X version, the one that has been running trouble free for almost five days since I downgraded, into another hard drive. I've booted into that hard drive and did a software update to Mac OS X to bring it up to 10.5.3 once again.

I also software updated Flash CS3 to make sure that that too is in its latest version and boy, does the update take a lot of time! Earlier before and during those mishaps with the Cintiq, I've cancelled most of the updates. To cover all the bases, I intend to make sure I have all these updates installed.

Once I've completed that, I will remove the existing tablet driver, do a repair disk permission on this hard drive and then download and install that release candidate Wacom Tablet driver. I intend to run this set up this weekend and see if I can make it through the day without crashing.

I just have to have 10.5.3. I have applications that only run in that version of Mac OS X such as Aperture 2, my Raw Photo editing tool. I have several pictures in my camera waiting to be downloaded, post processed and posted! There were a lot of going-ons behind the scenes that I was not able to share because of this Mac Pro/Cintiq issue that took up most of the space in this month's postings.

Until then, have a great weekend!

Today, I decided to see how much I would have saved for each developer if I had chosen similar Dell machines. Of course, I wouldn't have cared what my savings would be, because part of the incentive to buy Mac Pros was to provide our dev team with the flexibility to develop anything for any platform. But to my huge surprise, buying a comparable Dell had a $1,304 premium!!! Take a look for yourself:

As you can see from the images above, the Dell price without tax is $4,153 while Apple's price is $2,849. 

Who is Dell joking here? Now to be fair, there are 2 differences in configurations:

• The Dell System bus is 1,333 Mhz vs. Mac Pro's 1,600 Mhz bus
• The Dell Memory is 667 Mhz vs. Mac Pro's 800 Mhz

That's right! The Mac Pro has even a better configuration and costs $1,300 less. Upgrade pricing was equally insane. While Apple charged $200 for a 2nd 500GB drive, Dell's price for that same upgrade was $339.

So now taking the Dell premium into consideration, the faster Mac Pro, better style and looks, the easier component access and ability to run OS X, is there any reason to stick with Dell?

The driver is in what's called a release candidate, meaning it is not the final version.  

I am hesitant to try this out right away as I am in a midst of a deadline.  But once I get some breathing space, I will install this on my other hard drive that has 10.5.3 installed in it and run it through it's paces.

I am also looking up reviews on this driver to see if anyone having the same issue as mine have used it already and has gotten some positive results.

Plus, I am hoping that Wacom Support will reply back to me and refer to this driver as a possible solution to my problems.  So far, they have only asked for the crash report logs and have not replied back since.

My sincerest thanks to Bryan for bringing this to my attention!

• Dell Latitude D630 Notebooks
  • 4GB RAM
  • 7200 RPM Drives
  • 2.1Ghz Core 2 Duo
• 2 x 20" Dell LCDs (1600x1200 resolution)
• Docking station (to allow 2 monitors)

Here's what a setup looked like:

There's a great story behind the pink pony in the picture, but that's for another blog :-)

So we just started a transition for our developers to a Mac Pro setup.

• Mac Pro With:
  • 2 x 2.8Ghz quad-core Xeon (8-cores total)
  • 6GB RAM (buy memory upgrade elsewhere, much cheaper)
  • 500GB Drive
• Apple 30" Cinema Display (2560x1600 resolution)

So here's what the new setup looks like:

These workstations are absolutely amazing. They are the world's fastest workstations for running Windows, and of course, they are the world's fastest for running OS X. The idea is that our developers now have the best of both worlds and they have the flexibility to meet changing Axosoft demands. With such blazingly fast machines, they could choose to run Windows in a virtual environment and still run it faster than their old setup.

One question you might have is why did we switch to desktops from laptops? We had initially gone with laptops to allow for easier portability of the machines in case of travel, meetings, etc. However, about 51 out of 52 weeks of the year, the laptops didn't move from the desk. For the 1 week that they did, the developers determined it wasn't worth giving up the performance boost that comes from a desktop.

Lets see what develops...

Aunque muchos no os lo creáis, pocas veces me sale la vena de fanboy de Apple. No me gusta la pasión desmedida de muchos maqueros hacia todo lo que hace la compañía del siempre halabado (y pocas criticado) Steve Jobs. Por contra, reconozco que yo también he tenido mis épocas de seguidor ciego del padre Jobs, aunque cada vez menos. Supongo que al principio de entrar en en este mundo con los polos hundidos y un mordisco alojado en el este, es algo normal sentir pasión por todos los apartitos que nos venden a precio de oro (no son los únicos), los buenos señores de Cupertino. Lo tienen todo para atraer al público: diseño, elegancia, cuidado en los detalles, buen hardware, genial software..., y de hecho consiguen una clientela tremendamente fiel. Sin embargo, hay que achacarles que su visión del mercado, elitista y exclusivo en ocasiones, deja fuera a un gran número de personas, que son las que, por otro lado, tanto critican a Apple, pero al fin y al cabo los negocios son los negocios, y Steve Jobs, como tantos otros, está ahí para hacerse rico con ellos.

En cualquier caso, Apple tiene toque, porque no lo puedo definir con mejores palabras. Tiene ese toque que les cubrió de oro con el iPod, y que ahora les está llegando con el iPhone. Sin embargo, el punto primigenio y poderoso de Apple son sus Mac. Los preciosos MacBook, el archiconocido y delgado MacBook Air, la potencia del MacBook Pro, son un éxito y deberán serlo más con las bajadas de precio que sorprendentemente está imprimiendo Apple a sus productos. Más de lo mismo cuando pienso los iMac, que sorprenden por su diseño y capacidad a todo el que los ve funcionar, e incluso levanta admiración cuando están apagados... Los Mac Pro son pura potencia, aunque sí es cierto que el precio los hace solo visibles para un mercado pequeño. Y los mini...., los MacMini podrían ser la piedra filosofal de los Mac, pero Apple no quiere que lo sea. He llegado a la conclusión de que Steve Jobs no quiere que el MacMini sea tan popular y tan accesible para todos que masifique el mercado. No es esa la filosofía de Apple, su filosofía es la exclusividad, y el ser mayoría dentro de una minoría. Y así han pasado por encima de ataques virales y troyanos maliciosos que asedian constantemente a Windows, su eterno competidor.

Apple tiene toque, porque el revuelo que se formó con la presentación del primer iPhone solo es comparable a la que levantó con el iPhone 2.0, éxito en el mercado seguro. Steve Jobs y los suyos reinventan el mercado de los móviles y los smartphones, tal y como reinventaron los reproductores mp3 con el iPod. No podría deciros cuál es mi artículo favorito de Apple, porque hasta el Shuffle, que nunca me gustó, al tenerlo y jugar con él me apasiona, y ese es el toque de Apple, que de una manera u otra, para bien o para mal, apasiona.

Everything was done on Sunday.  I've worked the whole day of Monday and it was crash free.

I was relieved and a bit pissed at the same time.

Obviously, I was happy I had no incidents yesterday.  I would have pulled my hair out if, after all those configuration, a crash would still occur.

On thing I had to give up with all of this is that some applications do not run on 10.5.1.  One of this application that I have is Aperture 2.  I bought a license for this Raw Photo Editing software a few months ago and when I tried to reinstall it, it would not let me because it says it only runs on 10.5.2.

Now, should I risk upgrading to that version just to run Aperture 2 on the Mac Pro?  I decided not to and instead to install Aperture 2 on my iMac, which has 10.5.3.  I would be sacrificing a lot of processing power, but I only use Aperture on occasion and not full time.

So there is my initial impressions.  I don't know if I have come up with the complete solution to my issues.  It's not strange for me to be running an older version of Leopard because I do hear a lot of Mac users who refuses to do an update lest that new update breaks something.  In my case, it did, big time!

Apparently, a number of Wacom Tablet users have been experiencing issues with their tablets after upgrading Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 to 10.5.3 or even 10.5.2. I have found a forum member post the same error messages that I was getting from the Console of my Mac Pro.

I have re-installed Mac OS X once again, but after the installation I did not do any Software Update. I have been running 10.5.1 since this Sunday morning and so far I have not suffered any crashes yet.

My suspicion that the update is causing the crash is becoming stronger when I look back a number of weeks ago when I just got the Cintiq. I believe I was still running 10.5.1 back then and the Mac Pro and the Cintiq were working flawlessly. Fast forward to two weeks ago when I made the Software Update to 10.5.3. That's when all this dreaded falling curtain of death started appearing.

If I remember correctly, 10.5.3 was announced sometime two weeks ago. I held off for a week before doing the Software Update. But previous to that, I had a crash and that was probably running 10.5.2.

So, apparently these two updates broke the Wacom Tablet Driver.

I will continue running under 10.5.1 from now on. It was fine when I first worked on it the first time the Mac Pro arrived here. It's just unfortunate that I have lost confidence working on it and fear a crash will be imminent any moment now.

I wish it would not.

I have exhausted all efforts to rid myself of this issue. I did a fresh installation of Mac OS X on a new hard drive. I made a fresh install of Adobe Flash CS3. I downloaded what I think is the very latest driver for the Wacom Cintiq.

Just a few moments ago, my Mac Pro crashed again.

So until Wacom Support contacts me with a fix, I am announcing here in my blog that the Mac Pro, the Wacom Cintiq 20WSX and Adobe Flash CS3 do not make happy bedmates.

I repeat: THE MAC PRO, THE WACOM CINTIQ 20WSX AND ADOBE FLASH CS3 could not live together and work seamlessly. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SET UP A WORKSTATION WITH THESE COMPONENTS!

Anyone with luck running these components together without a hitch, I am so happy for you. But at the moment, I have resigned the fight and have conceded defeat.

It's unworkable! I now work in constant fear that a crash can occur at any moment. Is that how one should feel with all this highly expensive equipment at the employ? My confidence with the Mac Pro and the Cintiq has been shattered. I don't even have to say that these components are crap; they just don't want to work with each other. I just can't believe my luck.

I am not even pushing the machine to its limits! In fact, every movement I do in Flash, I do with caution, lest I may be confusing the processor or whatever. The last crash, I was just moving around some key frames. And it crashed!

When did I got the Cintiq? It's not even with me for more than three months. And the Mac Pro? Slightly longer than that. Heck, I had more luck working crash-free with my 20" iMac and a regular Wacom Intuos Tablet.

It puzzles me because for a month I was able to work with it without any hassle. The only thing I did was I updated my OS X. Did the Leopard 10.5.3 broke the driver of my Cintiq?

My advice to anyone thinking of setting up a Mac Pro or any other Mac with a Cintiq, DON'T DO IT! I am forced to live with it at the moment probably until a new driver from Wacom finally fixes the issue. I have no other machine to work on; I have already given away my old PC Workstation.

I have finished doing a fresh install of everything: OS X, Flash 8 Professional, latest Wacom Tablet Driver.

I was not even five minutes into working on a scene when the system crashed again.

I just want to huddle in a corner and cry.

Is the Mac Pro, the Cintiq and Flash not meant to be with each other?

Enough is Enough.

I am eating my words right now when I declared months ago of how stable and reliable Mac OS X and a Mac Pro should be. At that time, I totally threw in my faith on the Mac, ditching my old PC Workstation and Windows to go all Apple hardware-wise.

And now this.

Apparently, Adobe Flash CS3, the software I use to do professional posing and animation, and the Wacom Tablet Driver, the driver necessary to run the Wacom Cintiq 20WSX that I got to replace my regular Wacom Tablet, are the main culprits in causing Mac OS X to crash. I only say that because when I open up the Mac OS X's Console program to see what is the cause of the crash, both of these show up in the messages on separate occassions.

How convenient was that!

It's pretty strange because I never had a crash on a Mac before when I used to do my work using my 20" iMac and a regular Wacom Tablet. It puzzles me that I am on Apple's high end computer right now, the latest Mac Pro as of June, 2008, with all its 8 cores and loads of RAM, and I am having more crashes than when I was working on a Windows machine!

I am just ranting here because these crashes have sucked the fondness I have for this particular Mac. What's causing the rant is the thought of how much I spent to set this machines up. Well, actually, I am leasing them, but it makes no difference. They are supposedly on the cutting edge and using them must be painless and trouble-free! That is why I opted for them!

Anyway, I am sure there is nothing here than can't be solved by a complete reinstall, which I am currently doing at this moment while writing this entry.

And speaking of installing, the DVD drive of that Mac Pro sure is noisy! I am 8-10 minutes into the first installation disk and the DVD drive would spin and start up with this loud, howling sound. I am not concerned about that because I have read about it earlier in some forums about Macs that I frequently visit.

(As if on cue, the drive would stop spinning, silent for a while, and then rev up like a miniature car taking off, just as I was finished writing that last paragraph!)

It's a good thing that the Mac Pro's innards are so easy to access, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. I have installed a new hard drive, quite painlessly, I might add, and I am installing a fresh new OS X on that one, keeping the previous OS X that came with the machine as well as all the files I have worked on in this machine in the stock hard drive. In case my new installation still fails, I can still boot from the original.

I could have opted for an easier route and cloned the original drive into the new one with all the programs, settings and preferences intact, a complete mirror copy and duplicate, but I fear there might be some preferences that is causing all this crashes.

I also am opting with installing just Adobe Flash Professional 8, the older version of my current Adobe Flash CS3, and sacrifice a slight dip in speed to observe how stable it is now that I will have it running on a Mac Pro.

It would be a long process to reinstall the additional softwares I run and copy my back-up files from my iMac back to the Mac Pro, but I don't mind that much. I could use the time to just sit back and relax for a while and try to gain back some momentum before doing my next week's assignment.

Hopefully by that time, the gremlins in my Mac Pro will be gone and it will be just like before when I first unpacked that machine and mated it with the Cintiq.

Until then...

My Mac Pro has been habitually crashing EVERY FRICKIN' SINGLE DAY!

That dreaded Gray Curtain of Death, Mac's version of Window's Blue Screen of Death, has becoming a familiar sight. It is a sight that I am not very happy to see, darn it!

I just can't get to the bottom of it! I am way head high piled up with work so I cannot afford these mishaps with my primary workstation. Just this morning, I am trying to finish one of my scenes and my Mac Pro just decided to crash and restart itself. It is pointing out Adobe Flash CS3 as the culprit to this latest crash.

Gosh, I am getting sick of it.

Once my machine permits me to finish that one last scene, I am going to install a new hard drive on the MacPro and install a fresh copy of Mac OS X Leopard. Then I am going to go back and use the previous version of Flash that I have, which is Flash Professional 8. I only went with Flash CS3 because it supposedly is much faster on an Intel Mac being that it can run natively using that processor.

I am getting red in the face right now. Better get back to work. I will give an update on how things will work out once that fresh re-installs are done. Wish me luck!

On a Mac, it's the dreaded gray curtain falling down on the computer screen, harking that Mac OSX has crashed.

I've been desperately trying to find what is causing this crash and lo and behold, it's either the Wacom Tablet Driver or Adobe Flash CS3, both of which is what I primarily run on this machine!

It sucks because I decided to spend hundreds of dollars to set up this supposedly rock-solid team-up of cutting edge technology to get away from the unreliability of my old PC Windows work station.

The crashes that I am having right now are so frequent that I have lost confidence working using the Mac and the Cintiq. It turned me into a nervous wreck and I find myself saving a back-up file everytime I work on something in case the machine decided to crap out.

I feel bad because I was raving about how great my current set up is months ago. Now I feel like I have shot myself in the foot. I just hate that.

I am working on re-installing everything when I get free time this weekend to get another fresh start. I guess you can never win it all, no matter how much you over-spec your equipment.

Apple has been one busy company during the WWDC week. AirPort Utility 5.3.2 is released today for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard, and Windows XP/Vista.

06/11/2008

AirPort Utility 5.3.2 for Leopard - 8.8MB | Tiger - 9.3MB | Windows - 10.3MB
Wireless networking that works with most Wi-Fi enabled devices, including Mac, PC, iPhone, iPod touch, and more.

Get ready for these SUPER HOT MAC Pro Neon Pigments!
These are real bright and fun!! Neon Lovin.

You will be suprised how BRIGHT and pigmented these neon pigments really are.

Click to view a few swatches behind the cut!

Orange, Yellow and Pink Neon Pigments.

All 6 swatches of the MAC New Pro Pigments.

You can find these new mac pro neon pigments at any mac pro store near you or on Ebay here!