Tag Archives: linux

Fun with webcam

12/10/2007 – 10:07

So yesterday I decided I wanted to play a bit with my old webcam. So I went trough the “HOWTO install a webcam” on the Gentoo WIKI and managed to get my Philips SPC 200NC running without much trouble. Only issue I’m currently having is that the image is flipped upside down….but I easily solved [...]

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Long time, no post

03/10/2007 – 20:29

It’s been quite some time since i posted here now, 7 days to be exact. There are several reasons to that. First of all, it’s because I’m simply not in the “posting mood”, see sometimes when you blog you hit a dry period, when you really don’t feel like sitting down and typing random gibberish. [...]

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System malfunction

19/09/2007 – 15:42

So today I wanted to recompile myself a new version of MPlayer, so after compiling it over, with support for some various new stuff, i tried running it……but alas, up pops an error message that says error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory during compile. So, [...]

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Gnomes and protein folding

09/09/2007 – 09:57

So the last couple of days I’ve been running the Gnome window manager, and i must say, I’m quite surprised as to how good it is. Ever since ’99 I’ve been running either Fluxbox, Openbox or Blackbox, but recently I’ve really become interested in the Compiz-fusion project. Compiz-fusion is basically just an eyecandy addon to [...]

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