Thursday, July 9, 2009

Webcam, part 1

After moving to Los Alamos, I started playing with my webcam on my Linux machine. I ran into an aptly named command-line-interface package, "webcam", through Ubuntu's package manager and immediately started experiementing. The view outside of our office window is beautiful, but much more stunning in time-lapse:

When I tried to launch the program from the crontab, I recorded some great sunrises, but the process died at 11:45 consistently. This really sucks considering the footage of the snowstorm and the following melting I partly captured.

I'm working on expanding this into a year-long project.

8 comments:

  1. so cool! My husband needs to learn this so we can catch Pudge in action being naughty (which might also work well with your daughter...)

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  2. LoL, it will be Blender Defender all over again!

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  3. LOL, SEGFAULT. Also PC Load Letter.

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  4. Segfaults: http://xkcd.com/371/
    "PC Load Letter? What the F*** does that mean?"

    Speaking of using webcams to watch the rugrat, guess who found lipstick in Mom's purse, then proceeded to paint up the couch until it resembled a cheap prostitute?

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  5. LOL, please tell me there are pictures!

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  6. No pics... I just came home to a very upset wife and a very hyper naked baby. :P

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  7. Very Nice...

    As far as the music track... I find it hilarious that I just finished listening to Pink Cigarette on my way home for dinner break... very similar endings...

    As far as the couch. Still would've been worth a picture.

    Take care, I need to find the line for chutney.

    -MWH

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