Beid screencast

My FOSDEM talk didn't go entirely as planned. I tried to run a demo of the beid packages, but unfortunately they decided to play up again. This isn't the first time; they sometimes have this. It has something to do with OpenSC or OpenCT, I believe, but it's hard to figure out what, exactly. When I got back at the office with the machine that failed to work properly, and tried again, it did work. Heisenbugs suck. Pun intended.

Anyway, since things work now, I prepared a screencast showing off what I wanted to show during the talk; it takes about 8 minutes. I was going to edit the talk to hide the spammer who was DoS'ing my mailserver just as I was trying to send an email out, and perhaps to hide away the long waits at times; but I didn't find an easy way to do so, and I got tired looking. If you're interested, have a look.

Also, the screencast doesn't include any sound. This is because I couldn't find any piece of equipment on which istanbul would produce correct imagery (it appears to be buggy on powerpc), where the hardware was fast enough to capture and encode both a video at 1024x768 resolution and sound from the sound card (ruling out "anything", the machine on which I tried to do the presentation at FOSDEM), and on which the microphone would actually work (ruling out the amd64 box that was standing nearby). Since I could at least create a correct movie on the last machine, I just forgot about the sound. Instead, I tried to make the screencast show what was going on, by pointing at important tidbits with my mouse pointer.

Which kindof worked, but was not ideal. Oh well.