How To Use Linksys Compact Wireless-G Internet Video Camera WVC54GC From Linux

The Linksys Compact Wireless-G Internet Video Camera WVC54GC is a Linux based wireless webcam with its own streaming web server built in. Windows users can view the video stream through their browser without the need to install any extra software other than allowing the supplied Active-X control to run. Unfortunately there isn't much in the documentation about using this camera with Linux.

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Micro Guide To Distributed Batch Processing With PBS (Portable Batch System)

PBS is an old name in distributed batch processing circles. We had used it earlier in DoubleTwist for genomic annotations. Portable Batch System (or simply PBS) is a software job scheduler that allocates networked resources to batch jobs. It can schedule jobs to execute on networked, multi-platform UNIX environments (and widnows if you are using PBSPro). It is a superb envrionment to run discrete jobs in wide variety of languages (language independent) like Java or Perl (we used both).

For a long time PBS was free and openly available. However recently it is hidden behind compulsory regsitration which has to be manually reviewed (with promise of taking several days to approve). In short lots of pain. An alternative is to download PBSPro at a premium price. However I have better alternatives for you.
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