Dear Lazy Web: for some reason these days several people are asking me the same question – What Webcam is the cheapest and best to use in Ubuntu ? Of course, it HAS to work with Cheese and video in Skype.
I’d love to know if anyone has suggestions from FutureShop.ca or BestBuy.com or NewEgg.com, in that order 🙂
The Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX seemed like a good candidate but it’s out of stock.
Perhaps what we need is some mashup of this, this and this.
Today I feel like a hero just making it to work.
I’ll post pics of the igloo I built in front of my home tomorrow… meanwhile if you read this and you are anywhere without snow, have a thought for the brave Ubuntu support analysts and other employees in Montreal 🙂
Of course real men use their bikes.
It’ s been some time now that Savoir-faire Linux made available their Ubuntu Online Training courses, using Moodle. After trying their demo preview course (registration reqd’) I was very impressed and Yanick Cyr, a good friend of mine at SFL gave me access to the first level full course.
Shameless plug ? You bet. SFL is one of our local FLOSS success stories. I know Yanick worked his ass off on this and the result is a very complete, polished course with excellent resources. Not only do you get access to content from the official Ubuntu Training material (as SFL is an Ubuntu training partner), but SFL has gone as far as setting up regular live chat sessions, acces to a virtual Ubuntu server, quizzes, video screencasts and even a dynamically generated certificate… which you only get if you score high enough in the quizzes! And they have many other courses available.
I’ll save some of the excitement for next week when I get time to gather the screenshots I have and give a virtual tour of their course.
Well done Yanick and SFL!
Sheesh… I take a break from RSS feeds and blogging few weeks and all hell breaks loose.
I told you so!
Now I am almost confused. I am hoping I will help improve the community support for open formats on the N810 as apparently starting next week they will be available to Canadian customers (and devs).
A few weeks ago I applied to the Nokia N810 maemo device program, as I’ ve become more and more interested in mobile devices. I thought my profile would fit their description of candidates fit for the program.
My close friends know a thing or two about my obsession with mobility (and, consequently, VoIP). I often have enough in my backpack to set up shop (or office) most anywhere and colleagues often come to me with unusual requests for adapters, connectors or accessories that I locate quickly among my desktop chaos. Unless you have lots of free time you don’t want my advice on the subject (including what kind of backpack best carries it all).
Last week I got an email announcing I had been accepted in the program, which means I’ll be able to buy a (discounted) device! Living in Montreal will no doubt help as we have a large free wireless network provided by Ile sans Fil.
My application basically proposed to work and contribute in the following areas, from a non-developer, end-user point of view:
I was clear in my application I won’ t be doing any dev work, and I have never contributed to the maemo project before, so I am happy I got accepeted and hope I will make the best of it.