this is annoying

June 08, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So I finally gave up on the complete mess that is Video::Capture::V4l and went back to debugging why streamer isn't working. After a long time of scattering printf's through the code to figure out where it was failing, I finally discover that my problem was that streamer no longer recognizes .jpg as a jpeg image file. Gar. Now streamer works some, but still fails often for a reason unknown to me. So I still have nothing working, and that does not make me happy.

webcam stuff

June 06, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So today I reinstalled the xawtv stuff so I would get streamer and get my webcam working again. Simple stuff, right? Heh... streamer complains no matter what options I give it, despite the fact that xawtv works great. I saw in the README that there's a CPAN module Video::Capture::V4l, so I figure I'll just bypass all that and do my own bit. Heh...

This is quite possibly the most confusing Perl module I've ever seen. No documentation, and the examples they tell you to look at are totally incomprehensible. Now I'm so deep in xs files and trying to comprehend the cryptic examples it's pathetic. Why can I never do things the easy way?

ummm... i haven't died

June 06, 2001 by Eric Richardson

Despite the eerie silence here, I have not died or lost the use of my arms. I've just gotten lazy. I haven't been doing much in the way of cool computer stuff since my little wipeout incident a while back. It's now summer, though, so look for me to start up again.

Of course, this all depends on whether I find a decent job. If you know of anything, I'd definitely be interested to know.

paper's done...

May 10, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I am definitely the only one in my class who compiles their research paper... lyx outputs LateX. Edit LateX file. Run texi2dvi. Run dvips. Out comes paper.

American History X (again)

May 10, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So while waiting for Lyx to compile I found that there's a DVD version of American History X in German.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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