Marcus D. Hanwell's Blog - Comments

Jonathan: New Webcam and Linux

nospam@example.com (Jonathan) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:54:57 +0100

What sort of frame rates do you get with this? I purchased a GigaWare 2.0MP camera from RadioShack that had a great framerate but it broke. I returned it and got the QuickCam communicate STX but its got poor quality playback. When I wave my hand in front of the camera, I would like to see my hand, with the logitech, my hand would disappear, the GigaWare worked nicely though.

BTW as a sidenote, if you're looking for some monitoring software, I hear that ZoneMinder is good. Its FOSS and does motion detection.

Donnie Berkholz: Avogadro, OpenGL and Display Bugs

nospam@example.com (Donnie Berkholz) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:19:19 +0100

Thanks for the props! Please call me Donnie though. =)

Marcus D. Hanwell: Avogadro, OpenGL and Display Bugs

nospam@example.com (Marcus D. Hanwell) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:04:22 +0100

It is good to get some feedback. I didn't know if the driver was so broken OpenGL is basically not possible right now or if it was some calls we were making that could be avoided (at least conditionally). I have hit a few OpenGL bugs but these two have been the toughest to find a good solution or workaround for.

Jos: Avogadro, OpenGL and Display Bugs

nospam@example.com (Jos) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:42:40 +0100

I've got a savage, and I can tell you it is certainly a driver bug : it has so many problems...

Only switching from 1024x768 to a full screen 640x480 OpenGL application makes it crash, since the new randr code.

Marcus D. Hanwell: New Webcam and Linux

nospam@example.com (Marcus D. Hanwell) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:45:32 +0100

Thanks for the tips - I have installed it and will certainly check it out. I know there is some new framework for KDE that is supposed to help here too... Hopefully the situation will improve with regards to open VoIP and video conferencing solutions.

Marcus D. Hanwell: Avogadro 0.8.0 Released

nospam@example.com (Marcus D. Hanwell) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:52:42 +0100

Hi Pierre - that is great news. Benoit posted to the development list about this and it was great to see. Hopefully I will be able to find the time to improve POV-Ray support further soon. I am glad to see it is already being used.

nephilim : New Webcam and Linux

nospam@example.com (nephilim ) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:17:59 +0100

well there are windows and mac counterparts [http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Which_programs_work_with_Ekiga_%3F] and I personally dont mind havin a few more libs being a kde user myself, although I have to admit that the looks are not THAT striking )

John Henderson: 1&1 - Yet More Terrible Service...

nospam@example.com (John Henderson) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:07:27 +0100

1&1 are quite simply shonks, thiefs and crooks from my experience!
You are in for total grief if you ever choose 1&1 for ANY service whatsoever.
AVOID 1&1 like the plague!

Pierre: Avogadro 0.8.0 Released

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:50:35 +0100

Hi !

Just to let you know of one use of Avogadro in this article:
(http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008061801)
I'm not sure how long this address will last though.

Thanks for your work and for the now very good povray export!

Pierre

nic: Getting Back to Gentoo and KDE Development

nospam@example.com (nic) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:41:37 +0100

tigerdirect.com next time. they are located in Illinois, which cuts shipping time in half to your location. basically, they rock.

Marcus D. Hanwell: New Webcam and Linux

nospam@example.com (Marcus D. Hanwell) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:29:42 +0100

Truthfully I didn't as it is GTK based and I prefer Qt/KDE solutions. Also, to be much use, it needs to be able to allow communication with friends and family who use Windows/Macs and as far as I could tell that is not the case... As I am very new to the webcam thing I could be missing something though.

nephilim: New Webcam and Linux

nospam@example.com (nephilim) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:13:16 +0100

Did you ever take a look at ekiga?

http://ekiga.org/index.php?rub=2

Sue: 1&1 - Yet More Terrible Service...

nospam@example.com (Sue) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:48:26 +0100

I've only been a customer for 3.5 weeks and for 2 of those I've been unable to access my site. Eventually had to zap it and start again and within 1.5 days I'm having problems again. I notice that in the discussions above, a lot of people are complaining about 1and1 but very few suggestions for good hosting services. Checked out fasthost but a bit worried about some of the stuff I've read, floods, breaches of security, etc - if you've found someone good can you please let me know

Martin Knight: Orange UK "Customer Service"

nospam@example.com (Martin Knight) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:28:21 +0100

Even my agent - mobile phone shop, cannot get through to them to inform them that I ish to leave. But I can not cancel the contract without continuing to pay for the full duration. I will graciously be allowed to drop down one expese level. All the networks have colluded to offer the same contractual limitations. i wonder if the office for fair trade would have anything to say about this. i journey to Europe regularly. My emails on my mobile and a few roaming calls were costiing me ?500 per month. I have stopped taking down my emails and wait until I arrive. i now use SIM4TRAVEL which doers not charge for incoming call in Europe and has what seems to reasonale costs for outgoing texts and calls. Not yet so good in the USA but maybe that will come.

Marcus D. Hanwell: The Kalzium Molecular Editor

nospam@example.com (Marcus D. Hanwell) — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:44:25 +0100

Sorry about that - that page was obviously forgotten. We have updated it now, thanks for pointing it out.