To prove this stuff really works under Linux, here are a few links to sites using a Philips webcam and putting the image online. Be prepared to be taken to some weird places... Have fun!
Note: all links on this page to webcams open in a new window. I am not responsible for the contents of these cams, nor if the cam is online, etc.
Want to be included? Drop me a line (webcam at smcc dot demon dot nl)! (address deliberately obfuscated)
A look at the Weststrasse, in Zürich (page is partly in German).
A look at the Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal running through Utrecht. Does not seem to be online 24 hours a day.
An indoor look at some office at the Weteringschans, in the heart of Amsterdam. Note: at night the office lights are out so the image is very dark/black.
Located at the cybernetics faculty of the university of Stuttgart. Site is now in English, and you can even control the camera's position.
Operated by Jay Lubomirski, this cam looks at the port in Yarmouth Maine, at the Atlantic Ocean. This cam uses `streaming' video using camserv.
An indoor look at Geoff Ghose's wardrobe (and I suspect there's a desk just out of sight, so you might catch him at the computer).
A view at the Fallturm in Bremen, where they perform zero-gravity experiments *1 (for as long as it lasts :))
Two cams! Well, not really: Bob has 2 entries: a single snapshot view and a `video' stream. Looking at his office desk using camserv.
Martijn Houtman put up his webcam in his hometown; you get either a view of his bedroom or an outside look.
Doug Neal put up his DougCAM at home. And quoting his homepage: "No Microsoft products were used in the making of this webcam page." :-).
"Not a lot goes on here but the cam is always pointed out the window catching whatever does." So watch out what you're doing there in that town, you may be on Candid Camera :)
A cam in a crowded room of a non-profit organisation aimed to teach Unix (OpenBSD, Linux, Solaris). The organisation is part of the ECE (www.ece.fr), school of electronics and computing).
The site is in French, but the webcam image is at the mainpage.
Alessio Re send me this link to his webcam view. Valle Mosso is located in the northwest of Italy, in the pre-Alps. Updated once per hour with CamE.
Italy again; this time an indoor look at Fabio Pani, location as yet unknown. The site has a popup window where you get a auto-refreshing image view.>
Thomas Hartmann put up a webcam in the office of a large telco in Vienna. The site is a mix of German and English, so I guess that for most of you it becomes time to start learning a second language :)
Stargazing with a webcam! Or something like that... Sjoerd Simons and his collegues set up 3 webcams, and one of them can even be remote controlled. The coolest part about that last cam is that you can actually see the image blur as the cam moves :) They also release the software for this site, somewhere at http://cvs.luon.net/, in the 'sweat' tree.
Daniel Jacobson put up a webcam (one out of 9, I'm told) in his home/office/whatever. Pretty weird website :)
Tim Ward put up his cam at db94.org. He claims to be a PHP hacker, and well, you see the usual stuff: open computer cases, cables and other computer stuff lying around, nerd behind the keyboard :-)
Another cam down under (the lowest one, as far as I can tell, unless someone puts one up on Antarticta :-)), by Matthew Painter. And no, his camera is not broken, the image is black and white on purpose, just like the rest of his site.
Pieter van Leuven put up his webcam at home. His description: "View at the St. Pieter church in Oirschot (15km west of Eindhoven). Not much activity but it at least you know what the weather is in the southern part of the Netherlands. (Updated every 30 seconds when Linux is running on my desktop)"
Dirk Schäpsmeyer operates his 680 webcam from Minden, German. The cam shows live pictures 24 hours a day using single pictures or a stream.
No, I don't have a cam online. First, I don't have an interesting view outside and an indoor look invades my privacy too much.
*1: Strictly speaking the experiments are not in zero gravity: the object is still in the earth's gravitional field, which pulls at it with 1 g; only its effects are momentarely lifted by the freefall. The closest you can get in this universe to 0 gravity is in intergalactic space; and maybe not even that, since there is no way to measure gravity directly yet. And yes, I am a nitpicker.