How to take a picture every 5 minutes with Cheese

On our last party, I started using my old webcam to make a picture every 5 minutes to document the fun we were having. I used camorama, which has a build in feature to do exactly that. Today I wanted to do the same with the webcam on my girlfriends netbook. UNR comes with Cheese, [...]

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Netbook Part 4

GNOME vs KDE Let me say first, that I hate GNOME! But I like the UNR version. It has more a Smartphone (that works) feeling than a desktop PC feeling, but that’s fine by me. The preinstalled apps are simple and everything you need is there. Only the movie player sucks. Everything is very well integrated, [...]

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Netbook Part 3

What else works (out of the box) I tested the webcam with Cheese, the have-fun-with-your-webcam tool that is included in UNR. Taking snapshots works, but video capture doesn’t (not fluidly anyways). The card reader works (tested SDHC and Memorystick) and the earplugs jack works fine as well. glxgears says my graphics card can do 145 FPS. What doesn’t works [...]

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Netbook Part 2

Hardware support All tests by the System Testing utility of Ubuntu worked. That means: Internet (WLAN over WPA), Networking, Keyboard & Mouse, Display resolution (1024×600), Sound and Video playback. The Display is correctly auto-detected and the quality of the display is really really great, considering it is only 9″. Typing is a little weird, because the keys [...]

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Netbook Part 1

I got my girl a netbook for her birthday and today it arrived. A brand-new Lenovo IdeaPad S9e: 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, WLAN, Bluetooth, 4in1 Reader, Webcam, 1.1kg. Very pretty too. Installing Linux Regrettable it came with WinXP (kotz! [german for puke]) so I installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.04). Copying the image with dd didn’t work [...]

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