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I bought a new webcam because the quality of my other one was quite poor. I decided to go for the Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 since it supports UVC, a standard for streaming video. Because it follows a standard it should be well supported even in the future.

How I managed to get it working on my Linux machine:

A while ago I received a postcard that came with a Mini CD created by a company called CardSelect. It promised "Meer dan 100 beelden" of "De Wadden", more than 100 images of the Wadden Sea area. Today I decided to check it out, so I popped the disc in my computer and performed an ls /mnt/cdrom:

1. # udevadm monitor
2. Plug webcam into USB port
3. See the following from udevadm:
   
KERNEL[1258313701.178493] add /kernel/uids/1006 (uids)
UDEV [1258313701.178517] add /kernel/uids/1006 (uids)
KERNEL[1258313701.829976] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-4 (usb)
UDEV [1258313701.831655] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-4 (usb)
KERNEL[1258313701.833268] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-4/2-4:1.0 (usb)

When I got the complaint that the namespace "Microsoft.AnalysisServices" did not exist when I tried to compile a software project I was a bit at a loss. Google was not very helpful; a lot of posts on the internet keep insisted on adding a reference to a certain DLL file that did not even exist on my machine. The search for an SQL SDK for Visual Studio 2008/MSSQL was fruitless as well. Eventually I solved it by installing the following three items in order:

1. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services 9.0 OLE DB Provider (SQLServer2005_ASOLEDB9_x64.msi)
   

The following list contains my entries for Adblock Plus, a great add-on for Firefox that can block content originating from certain servers. These few entries were enough to block almost all of the annoying content for a long time.


/[_/-]ad(s(erv(er)?)?)?[._/0-9-]/
/^https?://([^/]+\.)?doubleclick\.net//
/^https?://([^/]+\.)?atdmt\.com//
/^https?://..*129\.125\.101\.92/
/^https?://([^/]+\.)?zango\.com//
/^https?://([^/]+\.)?adultfriendfinder\.com//
/^https?://([^/]+\.)?fastclick\.net//
/^https?://([^/]+\.)?adform\.net//

21:44:16 <@Z> !define parenthesiophile
21:44:19 < m> No definitions found.
21:50:45 <@q> it uses google definitions
21:50:53 <@q> so it probably only does "regular" words
21:51:01 <@q> !define bird flu
21:51:04 < m> No definitions found.
21:51:08 <@q> !define flu
21:51:12 < m> No definitions found.
21:51:13 <@Z> yeah i just realized its a made up word anyway
21:51:18 <@q> or maybe it's completely broken, lol

Universal Postal Union - How to write addresses

From that website: Use this guide and you can be certain that your address will be written correctly, ensuring that Posts worldwide process your mail fast and efficiently. If you have any specific requirements, please select a country to obtain more detailed information.

Leave it up to Microsoft to confuse us all: whereas every program has "close" as the bottom option when right clicking a window on your task bar, Windows PowerShell has "Properties" on that spot. The "Close" option is nicely put in the middle, with 5 options above and 3 below it.

Programming in C# with an IDE like Visual Studio is a breeze, and using the WebBrowser Control from Dot Net is not bad either... until you discover the DocumentCompleted event gets triggered before the Javascript's OnLoad gets executed, and you like to have this order reversed.

The terminal application on OS X can take many different appearances. I just figured out how to change an already existing terminal: first hit Apple+i. This will open a window called the Inspector, and then under Settings you can select a different colour theme. This might sound silly but if it wasn't for me hitting the wrong keys I wouldn't have figured it out - in the menu bar there is also the option to open Inspector, but I would never have associated that name with a settings dialogue.