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On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 07:27:14PM +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > > > ps and thanks to rob for getting the sweex wireless apparently working on his > > machine (we could not get any wireless connection going while there). > > > > No problem Henry. I should have brought along my router we could have > tested it properly then. Works well at home: or at least as long as I did not try and manually set it up! On roaming it works really well (Sweex wireless card from Trago at £12 odd) > > Talking about web cams, the software I was thinking of for Linux is > called Motion. It runs in the background as a daemon and tracks motion > on your web cam (or TV/Video capture card) and can either record the > output as a JPG or MPEG4 AVI video. It has an embedded web server to > help being accessible from the internet. > Will try this asap: been busy transferring files from xp to $%"!!^ vista and from xp to Ubuntu. > Although it would be great if GAIM (or whatever it's called now) had > support for webcams with audio connecting to MSN Messenger on Windows XP > (or Yahoo messenger on XP), this might solve your problems. > Or yahoo under Ubuntu? May try that > Other than that, you may be interested in an Edimax IP-1000 network IP > camera. This can do single frame capture or motion capture (although > saying that I haven't managed to get it to capture decent motion on > Linux yet, but it does the job for the Gemini FM webcam). It also has a > proprietary ActiveX control for Internet Explorer which enables pretty > good motion. > > Hope this helps. > Many thanks -- Henry Mon Aug 13 20:46:56 BST 2007
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