[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Global Jam 2nd-4th March

2012-02-13 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, in a few weeks time there will be a focussed burst of activity on Ubuntu, in the form of the Global Jam, which is basically a weekend of various activities around the world encouraging people to contribute to Ubuntu in some way. You can read more about it here

[ubuntu-uk] Using EEEPC as WiFi webcam

2012-02-13 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi all I have found a use for my old EEEPC with a 7 screen, 4GB SSD, 512MB and Celeron processor running lubuntu as a sort of WiFi webcam. Currently I put it in the window to watch the birds in the garden by running guvcview on it then accessing it from my PC using VNC and Remmina. This is not a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Global Jam 2nd-4th March

2012-02-13 Thread Andres Muniz
Alan said: keen to go through and document and perhaps fix a bit once more the installation process with Orca, if anyone else has suggestions of things does this have to do with what trisquel did with their distro? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using EEEPC as WiFi webcam

2012-02-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 February 2012 18:58, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Hi all I have found a use for my old EEEPC with a 7 screen, 4GB SSD, 512MB and Celeron processor running lubuntu as a sort of WiFi webcam. Currently I put it in the window to watch the birds in the garden by running

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using EEEPC as WiFi webcam

2012-02-13 Thread Liam Proven
On 13 February 2012 18:58, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Hi all I have found a use for my old EEEPC with a 7 screen, 4GB SSD, 512MB and Celeron processor running lubuntu as a sort of WiFi webcam. Currently I put it in the window to watch the birds in the garden by running

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using EEEPC as WiFi webcam

2012-02-13 Thread Alan Pope
On 13/02/12 18:58, Tony Pursell wrote: However, I am wondering if there are any more elegant solutions for sharing the webcam on one machine with other machines. I use the Webcam package. With a config file cobbled together from bits I found online. http://popey.com/~alan/webcamrc.txt I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Global Jam 2nd-4th March

2012-02-13 Thread Alan Pope
On 13/02/12 09:45, Alan Bell wrote: if anyone else has suggestions of things to do then speak now Could be good to get everyone to just run through checkbox-unity on their machine running the latest Ubuntu 12.04 + Unity + Compiz. Even from a Live CD or USB key it could uncover bugs we