Of Penguins & Coffee

Ingredients:

2 eggs

Dash of milk

1 tortilla

Cheese

assorted herbs and spices

1) Eggs, Dash of milk, and Herbs etc into a bowl and whisk until uniform colour and consistency,

2) pour into an appropriately sized (eg tortilla size) frying pan, pre-oiled (Extra Virgin Olive oil does the best)

3) Turn the heat up to about half, and let the egg slowly cook

4) When the bottom of the eggs are hard but the top is still liquid, grate the cheese over it so it melts into the eg, and then cover in the tortilla.

5) When Air bubbles form under the tortilla, making it rise up, flip the whole thing, turn the heat all the way up, and let it sit for about a minute, then flip back onto the egg side for 30 seconds, and serve, rolled.

I’ll keep this as informative.
If your webcam works in ubuntu (I’m running the 8.10 RC atm, fantastic btw) under cheese but not with skype, I did a bit of digging and cheese uses v4l2 (the ‘new’ webcam api) which inherently screws up skype that uses v4l1.

So, its easy enough since i came across this post and after chasing up my own system locations (this guy must be on 64bit, but i didnt ask) dead easy, instead of in the terminal going
# skype
UPDATE:25/4/9

After a fresh install  jaunty i discovered i was missing a step

Need to install lib32v4l-0 and lib32v4l-dev (i think the -dev is unnessary but i install them anyway)

look in your library directories (/usr/lib/ or /usr/lib32/) for v4l1compat.so,

eg ” find /usr/lib* -name ‘*v4lcompat.so’ ”

# LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/v4l1compat.so skype
this, obv, preloads that library forcing skype to use teh right interface library.

If my explanation is wrong please correct me