The jabber server I run for myself and a few friends recently had the MSN transport upgraded… It went to 1.2.8rc1 from 1.2.8pre3 and seems to actually run normally instead of crashing out unless run in debug mode like the last version. Source for use with jabberd-1.4.2 can …
Recently spent a couple of days building VLS/VLC packages for debian ‘sid’ unstable. Having patched in Video4Linux support, and with the aid of a cheap BT878 TV tuner card in my linux box sending out multicast data, I can now watch TV upstairs on the other PC.
Never mount devfs over /dev - it rather breaks the system until after a forcible reboot!
I’ve been messing around writing some perl modules for use with starting and maintaining a database index of multimedia objects - audio, video, pictures. The kind of thing that could be used as a base for one of those Photo Album websites.
USB extension cables.. you might think it’s simple to get them working. You just plug them into the PC, plug the device into the other end and job done. Not so. After much messing around trying to get it to work, it seems that active (like a mini usb hub one end?) USB …
Hooray! It finally works, well I can get 160x120 video with xawtv anyway. Now to find out how to get a larger image and work out where to put the camera to get something vaguely interesting.. insmod pwcx-i386.o and hey presto! a slightly bigger image (still not 640x480 though). …