more argh

what a waste of an afternoon... i started rooting around tg's den (the den of iniquity, i call it) and eventually turned up the ol' webcam which used to be installed on my machine, but hasn't been used in over two years (approximately).

i googled to try to find the drivers, located them, tried to download them, had to sign up for a dumb website to access them, clicked through pages of no-thank-yous to various free! offers to complete the sign-up process, finally downloaded the thing, it didn't work (didn't even have all the components for the installation), tried the second version, it downloaded okay and seemed to install okay, but that doesn't mean it actually works. gah.

i can't believe how much time i have wasted on this thing... oh well, tg is home now, maybe he can help...