December 12th, 2008 by acmelab68
I bought a new webcam few days ago (Tevion MD85872) and had in mind to use it for video conferencing with my family and friends, and this – yes – with Linux. I’ve tried a few messengers, which were told to be able to work with Linux regarding video transmissions. This is the
- MSN messenger and
- Yahoo! messanger
ICQ doesn’t support video on Linux, and all other application available, doesn’t talk to the messengers my friends and family is using.
Long story short, I didn’t manage to make MSN or Yahoo! work.
A friend of mine said, I should use Skype, and I’ve tried it also. And surprise surprise, Continue reading ‘Getting Started with Skype on Linux’
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December 11th, 2008 by acmelab68
I’ve tried a few statistics plugins for WordPress. You know, such, where the visits per day, week, month, etc are counted, and a lot other information, too. Below is a (by far not complete) list of WordPress statistics plugins I’ve tried. But all of them didn’t meet my needs in one ore more things. But the StatPress plugin, has also disadvantages I don’t like. One of it is, you can’t adjust the number of results for Last hists, Last search terms, Last referrest, Last agents, Last Pages and Last Spiders.
And this is exactly where this article comes into the game. I’ve wrote a little patch, that makes this adjustable. Continue reading ‘Tweaking the WP-StatPress WordPress Plugin’
December 10th, 2008 by acmelab68
Perform these three lines, if it still doesn’t work, read the workaround described below:
cd ~/.googleearth
wget http://mymediasystem.net/wp/2009/01/libGL.so.1.2
googleearth
If it crashes again, you can give it one further try by removing the lock file and myplaces (back them up, if necessary): Continue reading ‘Google Earth 4.3 (Beta) crashes on Linux (Problem solved by workaround)’
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December 8th, 2008 by acmelab68
Saw yesterday pictures of an upcoming mobile phone with Android. And read and saw amazed the specs and pictures of this device. Especially the prize took me by surprise. $299 Australian Dollar.
The new KOGAN AGORA offers:
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