animated cam

July 09, 2000 by Eric Richardson

Part of the coolness with my cam architecture is that it stores images in a db, so I can access them later selecting by timestamp, host, or whatever. Today I'm playing around with taking each day's output and making it into a movie.

I have to say, it's incredibly amusing to watch an entire day at work go by in a minute or two.

Hopefully I'll have at least an example to put up here soon. I may also rearrange the cameras to get a more interesting view.

misc

July 09, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I went to fix anonymous cvs on the gonzo project, only to find out it already worked... Freaky. I swear it didn't last time I wanted it to. cvsweb through a chroot script isn't, though...

I'm thinking I really don't like this horizontal scroll look. I haven't decided exactly what to do to it yet, though. Don't be surprised if it changes.

I started playing around wth Sybase today. Eventually I'd love to port eThreads to it... I can't count how many times I've lusted after subselects and transactions. Mmmm... I think it would be a significant port effort, though.

i feel cool

July 08, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I just hacked in support for -k and fixed the frame status stuff in freeamp's mpg123 UI.

Granted, what I did was probably trivial to anyone with any clue what they're doing, but for someone with absolutely no clue of C++ stuff it's cool.

screenshot

July 08, 2000 by Eric Richardson

For the first time in ages, there's a new screen shot in the Linux section. It's actually my first four virtual desktops sampled down and put together into one wide image.

dropshadow

July 07, 2000 by Eric Richardson

Every few days I get bored and wander around the web looking for cool background images. Yesterday's searching brought me to Ronn Lund's site, which "guest starred" a couple images by Chas. I downloaded a couple of those images, and went on my way.

Today it struck me that there had been a link to Chas' full site, so I went there and found that it contains many more very well done backgrounds. Very cool.

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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