It was about time I upgraded the website. Hope you like it!

Having some time to spare (although not as much as I wanted), I thought it’d be a nice idea to convert my webcam into a security camera. The best (free) solution I found was zoneminder, which runs perfectly on linux.

I finally got my webcam to work on skype (sort of). I have a Logitech QuickCam Messenger (046d:08da), which is a v4l2 (video4linux v2) device. Skype only (still) works with v4l version 1. Thus “Houston, we’ve got a problem”!

I almost solved the puzzle.

After visiting Camp Zikula this last weekend, there was no other option than finally upgrading the website.

We all love to listen to music, right? I've been searching for a good music player for windows for a while now. I already found it in Amarok, but that one only runs natively on Linux. 

How often does it happen that, when downloading a movie, it's all separated into chunks? You don't want to open file by file when watching that movie. You want to combine all those chunks into a single avi, wmv or mpeg. Mencoder is your solution. 

Today I got another Windows Vista update error: 800F0902.

Luckily I found a useful post @ http://itsvista.com/2008/01/windows-vista-sp1-rc-refresh-available-to-public/ that proposed to change some stuff in the registry. 

For those in need of NX Server installation guide on the latest Ubuntu (Hardy), here it is:http://www.drtek.ca/freenx-server-ubuntu-hardy#en. It worked fine on my laptop.

I recently had a Vista installation which gave me an error on every update I tried, namely 80071a91. Googleing 'round brought me to http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/2007/05/21/80071a91/. I tried the suggested solution, finding that the delete statements didn't work: The files were in use by another process. That was quickly solved with a tool from http://www.creativelement.com/ and a reboot. Now I was able to continue the solution method and regain access to Windows updates on this Vista machine.