http://www.actionshrimp.com fun and geekery Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:02:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently discovered the wonders of skype, and tried to get my new webcam working with it under linux, and of course this proved to be quite tricky. After much fiddling I eventually got it to work, hopefully these steps will work for you too. The gspca drivers are available from ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/08/logitech-quickcam-e2500-on-ubuntu-skype/ When adding posts to my TiddlyWiki, I oft found myself craving vi, rather than a simple textarea. There were a few options that involved using a plugin for Firefox such as mozEx, and using an external program to edit textareas. However, I found a nice 'integrated' option instead. jsvi is an ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/05/jsvi-and-tiddlywiki/ This post is adapted from my LatexRenderPluginDoc page on my wiki, so might contain a couple of errors on the copy over. If something doesn't seem right, refer to that page, and please tell me in a comment below. This uses LatexRender, my simple TiddlyWiki macro, LatexRenderPlugin, and a custom script ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/05/integrating-latexrender-into-tiddlywiki/ Since I installed Hardy a week or so ago, I noticed the hard drive in my laptop was making a strange clicking noise every 5 seconds or so. At first I thought it must be slowly dying, and I was starting to get a bit worried, but then realised it ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/05/laptop-hard-drive-clicking-in-hardy/ So, I installed WordPress. I guess I'm just procrastinating from exam revision, but maybe I will actually manage to update this thing occasionally. http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/05/wordpress/