HP webcam on Linux
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 13 August 2010Okay, getting the HP webcam running on Linux wasn't hard at all. Enable Video For Linux (CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) which can be found in the Linux kernel configuration at Device Drivers, Multimedia Support. Then, select Video capture adapters and inside that menu, select V4L USB devices and then USB Video …
New laptop, time to play
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 13 August 2010I gave myself a nice treat and bought a new laptop. After some consideration, I decided to go with the HP Pavilion DV7 3150EB. Years ago, I didn't take an HP laptop as the reviews were not that satisfying. However, it looks as if that is past. So I first …
Executing, but only when you're home
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 18 January 2010Sometimes you want to execute a particular command, but only when you're at home. Examples would be running fetchmail (or fetchnews) through cron, but you don't want this to run when you're in the train, connected to the Internet through GPRS...
My idea here would be to create a script …
Online image gallery
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 05 October 2009If you're not up to the various free image gallery sites, you might want to try out ZenPhoto. Quite powerful, easy to use and well themeable. Requires PHP / MySQL.
hex2passwd, a password generator
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 25 September 2008I know that repeatable password generators are less secure than random character generators. After all, if you want a strong password, you can simply perform head -c 8 /dev/urandom | mimencode to obtain a nice, random password string.
However, in certain cases you might want to generate passwords given a …
Playing with gqview
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 18 August 2008Some time ago I received a digital camera; however, due to diskspace shortage I need to clean up my home directory. One of the directories that eats most of my sectors is one where I store all my pictures.
I know I have a lot of duplicate pictures, pictures deduced …