Everyone these days uses Skype, Yahoo or another online communication system, in which discussions with webcam are customary. If you don't have a webcam or if you're not satisfied with the one that you have, all you have to do is ...

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In these days all the new netbooks and most laptops have built-in webcam, or at least add one external costs very little, apart from the traditional use in video calls you can use our Linux box to create a monitoring device, it can be used to monitor your child while you are at another PC, or your pet while you are at work, or have a home-made video surveillance system for your properties.
To accomplish this we will use the software Motion, the software is present in many distributions, I will give commands using my Ubuntu 10.04.