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I received a Canon Elura 100 mini-DV for Christmas. Very nice for the price! While I am able to transfer video from tape to my Apple G4 PB, I can not seem to get the camera to work as a webcam either for iChat, or for HackTV.

Answer: download QuickTime from Apple (7.1.3) and re-install. There seems to be a problem with the upgrade to 10.4.8 which causes the dreaded “Your camera is in use by another application.” error message.

I can see it on the FireWire Bus in System Profiler.

FireWire Bus:

  Maximum Speed:	Up to 800 Mb/sec

ELURA100:

  Manufacturer:	Canon
  Model:	0x2
  GUID:	0x85000113AA11
  Maximum Speed:	Up to 100 Mb/sec
  Connection Speed:	Unknown
  Sub-units:
ELURA100 Unit:
  Unit Software Version:	0x10001
  Unit Spec ID:	0xA02D

I should set up a blog page for Jim to see my program.

I realized recently that if I work until I am 65, then I will have at that point 50 years of professional software development to reflect on. I figured it would be good if I started writing down some of what the first half of that career looks like.

I’ve been using VNC to help my family members with computer problems. Since it works on all flavors of OS, I find it very pleasant. I use ChickenOftheVNC as a client.

Use RealVNC as the server.

Install the following
RealVNC for Windows

Need to open a port for https access.
Fix IPATABLES to allow port 443

[root]# /sbin/iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --destination-port 443 -j ACCEPT

Open access through other firewalls
Not shown for clarity.

Get Apache to listen to https.
This is the more interesting aspect, as I run virtual hosts, and that does not play well with https. I think I can do it if only one host needs https.

Good info here.
Ok, add the Listen 443 and I can connect to the server through port 443. I need to do a little more reading to get the certificate set up and usable.