Denis Oxford demonstrated the use of Motion on a pair of web cams. Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed.

Motion runs on Linux and is available under the GNU General Public License.

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion

Jason Schonberg will discuss the installation and use of several linux distributions on Sun's Virtualbox. Configuring virtual machines and using physical devices (eg. usb) within the virtual machine.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

On September 17, 2009 we will be discussing the configuration of the Apache Web server. Bob Carnaghi of the Austin Linux Meetup Group has agreed to join us in reviewing the configurations that he typically uses.