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Is Linux just a hobby?
superboyac:
^^Thanks 40, good stuff there. I'll have to go through those eventually. Maybe I'll do more videos like that showing me struggling through all this in real time!
PS: did you have anyone operating the camera or is it smart enough to follow you?
-jgpaiva (July 24, 2012, 09:54 AM)
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It follows me automatically. It's the new Logitech 920 webcam, I've really been digging it lately.
mahesh2k:
Nice video there superboyac.
wraith808:
^^Thanks 40, good stuff there.
-superboyac (July 24, 2012, 02:53 PM)
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Definitely agreed on that point!
One of these days I'm going to have to write this all up once and for all and put it in a PDF for download. :P
-40hz (July 24, 2012, 02:20 PM)
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What's stopping you? That's some good info!
Tuxman:
^ If you start with Ubuntu, you will learn a lot about how Linux does not work.
(Yay, 1,000th posting!)
jgpaiva:
^^Thanks 40, good stuff there. I'll have to go through those eventually. Maybe I'll do more videos like that showing me struggling through all this in real time!
-superboyac (July 24, 2012, 02:53 PM)
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+1!
I'd really like to see more, it's always fun to understand where people have problems with anything on the first time they use it. Even if I'm not developing a OS, it's a learning experience since it allows to predict what kind of stuff works badly.
It follows me automatically. It's the new Logitech 920 webcam, I've really been digging it lately.
-superboyac (July 24, 2012, 02:53 PM)
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Awesome :) And it works perfectly!
Also, since I have some more time now, here's the two largest problems I believe stomped you:
1 - directories in unix are case sensitive ("Downloads" and not "downloads" ;) )
2 - you were missing some dependencies. In particular, your distribution runs the Gnomew window manager, and the program you tried to install needs KDEw. This is a common problem, but had you used some package manager instead of installing from source and you wouldn't have this problem.
Also, there's a third way to install stuff (which is mostly painless) that you haven't tried (which is the one that is equivalent to installing stuff in Windows): downloading compiled binaries and installing them using a package manager ("apt-get" or "aptitude", for example). An example of this is Opera.
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