Ok, I got Adobe Flash Player to work with my webcam using the Flashcam wrapper. Follow the directions at the website and soon you too can have your mug for everyone to see!

tx1320 Microdia part 2 - Flash works! “}

Hardy Haron so far has been great on my lappy. For those not in the know, I got an HP TX1320 that came with Vista Home Premium. For about five months, I tried to use Vista as my primary OS. Truth be told, the os worked well. It did not crash and installing Rails was a snap. What was a pain was how slow it ran. I finally caved and installed my favorite distro Ubuntu.
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So it is not that often, or ever, I have to release an IP from my ubuntu box. Ubuntu does a great job of moving GUI junkies like me into the wonderful world of Linux by hiding the shell quite effectively. Now that I spent some time with ssh and Solaris, I have been able to increase my proficiency with the mighty cursor. Heck, I can actually use the vi editor! That was huge as I would always default to pico but was forced to switch as that editor was not available on some production boxes I had to work with. So I am not as apprehensive about opening a terminal window to do some work as I use to be.

During a network upgrade, I needed to flush my IP often on my Linux box. No problem, I always figured ifconfig <interface> down/up would do the trick. It did not release the IP and with some searching I found dhclient <interface> did the trick (you may need to sudo the command). So all the linux users that are barking “DUH!” I am grateful of finding a new command. Hmm I should document all my discoveries no matter how small (like this one). At least I can search my blog when I forget, which sadly happens quite often.