Wayne D's Blog

I recently signed up for Twitter and decided I wanted a desktop widgit for my Linux PC running Centos 5. Nothing in the repository, so I got the source code for a couple of the most recommended Linx Twitter client. None of them would configure. My version if Glib was too low or some other dependency couldn't be resolved. There are reasons I run Centos 5 instead of Fedora or Ubuntu but Linux ix never going to take over the world if there continues to be more than 10 flavours each of which have their own special kinks. Microsoft took a lot of grief over the multiple versions of Vista they released but they have nothing on Linux. Many of the Twitter clients I looked at also had Widows versions available that probably worked without incident.

I also recently bought a Philips SPC900NC webcam. Even though it advertises 60 and 90 fps capture I couldn't get it to work at anything over 30 fps when using the supplied Windows software and drivers even after updating them to the latest versions. I also sent an email to the maintainer of the Linux driver offering to implement the higher frame rates if he had any technical information. No response was forthcoming.

Somedays I really hate computers.