Typically with remote desktop clients there are custom keyboard shortcuts for sending the ctrl+alt+del keyboard combination. They do this because this combo typically is captured and used by the client Operating System. I made this assumption when using rdesktop on linux, and it took me a little while to search and to find out that this isn't the case. The client rdesktop under linux passes ctrl+alt+del directly through to the server, so there is no alternative shortcut needed.

This technique requires ffmpeg as well as a webcam that is properly supported under linux. For this example I will assume that your video shows up as /dev/video0, but you can check by unplugging your webcam, running ls /dev/video*, and then plug in your web cam and run it again. If a new line shows up, this will be the device representing your webcam.

To collect a single frame of video, run:

I recently did some work on a Yahtzee program I wrote about 5 years ago. Before starting, I decided to screen capture the entire process. Then I time-lapsed the entire process. I've broken down and decided to offer a Flash version, in addition to the normal Theora/Vorbis version.

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Perhaps next time I will film myself as well as the screen and provide a split-screen view.

I have recently found an easy way to install and run Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6, and other versions of Firefox in a standard managed way. In order to do this, add the following rows to the /etc/apt/sources.list:

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