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Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux
mrneutron2004 writes "A French physician and ardent Linux supporter is the one man you can all thank for adding support for 352 webcams in Linux. The Open Source OS world may still be a bit of a mess when competing with the ease of Windows, but efforts like this make you wonder. One man with drive, tenacity, and no funding does what no one else can do. And none of the major Linux distributions back this guy's efforts, even the big players dipping into the corporate world's coffers."
What kind of a geek misspells Bawls? And an editor at Slashdot no less. For SHAME!
An amazing feat, this man should be recognized. Linux will never be on the desktop if your teenage daughter cant videochat with predators 2000 miles away! I for one welcome this new voyeur overlord.
And even the summary title wants to short him for 99 cameras to his credit!
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"And may your days be long upon the earth."
from the twelve-cases-of-ballz-later department
Just don't ask how a physician gets twelve cases of balls... *crosses legs*
Wow that must be a lot of copy-pastes. His left arm little, middle and index fingers must be pretty fatigued by now.
You know how Europeans always write their dates the reverse of the USA? This is like that, only different.
Should have just said "300, give or take 50."
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
Too bad all the stupid chicks that show their tits, don't use linux.
"Please, shut up. Just when I think you can't say anything more stupid, you speak again." -Archie Bunker.
sorry your bad anal ogometer went off, try some lube next time
He has 352 daughters?
So where is the heroic bureaucrat who can get this hellhole running so efficiently, that all the labour can be done by a single Australian man?
Fuck Slashdot
Maybe, but according to the article, he has had sex at least two times more than you have.
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
one can argue that this was not entirely the fault of Slashdot editors. Maybe the real number was 532?
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
To not give up.
Welcome our French Linux contributors.
I also want to extend my appreciation to France for helping to spread democracy and freedom to the former United States of America,
now called, the United Gulags of America thanks to the Chairman, The Military-Industrial-CONGRESSIONAL Complex.
Patriotically as always,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.
OK, so this gentleman didn't get money for his efforts. He wasn't hired by some major Linux distributer to write the drivers. I think he did it simply because a lot of supported webcams increased the likelihood that he could see someone naked and performing in front of a webcam.
Anybody else glad that they are not one of this guy's patients?
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
No he's not. The "missing" dimension is just wrapped up very tightly into the two that you can see. See, M-Theory works!
No, 253...
well, that was before after editors wrote the title and before their wrote the summary.
He might not have a TV
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
What we need, obviously, is a Beowulf cluster of French Physicists.
Saddam is no longer in a position to write drivers. That's why Vista users are SOL.
"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity." - Marshall McLuhan
rms: This is Michel ;-)
linus: Sir, in... In Project World Conquest, we have no names.
rms: Now, you listen to me.
rms: This is a man and he has a name, and it's Michel Xhaard, OK?
linux overlords: Michel Xhaard.
linux overlords: He's a man
rms: and he's a webcam hero because of us. Do you understand that?
linus: I understand.
linus: In GPL v3, a member of Project World Conquest has a name.
linus: His name is Michel Xhaard.
linux overlords: His name is Michel Xhaard.
linux overlords: His name is Michel Xhaard.
rms: Come on, guys. Please. Stop it, and think about the last GPL v3 draft
..cameras watch programmers.
And again France helps America win it's freedom!!!
You don't know that his daughters aren't twins.
You're probably right, though. With the last name Xhaard, I bet his sex record could make Ron Jeremy envious. Darn Frenchmen!
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
Anyone else start to hear the movie trailer guy's voice reading the summary?
In a world of drivers gone mad... one man with drive, tenacity, and no funding does what no one else can do...
In other news: French physician sets record with 352 online girlfriends. "I just really like a good web strip tease," said the Frenchman.
Seriously though, bravo to the guy for improving driver support in Linux, it's more or less the one big lacking Linux needs to overcome.
Well maybe that's how the 1 minute per person doctors have more time to spend on golf, writing webcam drivers, kernel hacking etc ;).
Lonely Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux
There. Fixed that.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
I'm more interested in the name of the developer. How could he not be an elite hacker, with a name like Doctor Xhaard?
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
You wrote emacs? ;)