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Prolog: I'm picking up ideas since I'm not a great expert in this field.
I need to record a webcam from a house desktop pc (a simple usb webcam) and streaming it in a website, allowing people visiting the website to interact with a chat which will be visible from both website and transmission pc (the one with the webcam put on).
This is the idea and sounds pretty cool. Now realizing all this it's another story..
I don't think this project would fit any of the forums I've found here, but I really didn't know where to post it so if you feel this post is totally OT or will cause a lot of flame (I don't see the reason but.. let's be sighted as we can) please move/delete it or advice me where to repost it.
The pc with the webcam which will transmit the images is linked across the internet with a 384 kbps upstreaming connection (Adsl) so this should be sufficient for the transmission to a single machine (I think).
My idea was to use an intermediate server (with a fixed ip and at least 4-5 Mbps flatband) which would grab the webcam images and transmit it to the various website surfers. The website should be using a flash applet connecting to the server where a C++ program would accept connections, send data, and get data back regarding the chat.
I don't know a lot of implementation details.. like: better using a windows server or a linux server? And what about the C++ program, should it open multiple ports (one for every client connecting) or what? I've never worked with streaming (if you have suggestions about a great guide to start with I'd appreciate it very much, I'm just willingful to learn). For the flash applet part I have to figure out a lot of things but I suppose that whether the underground mechanics of all this system could work, I surely will think about it and find a way out.
Can someone please provide me a good point to start or a suggestion about why my idea could work/couldn't work?
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Visit Tincam, they can do all you need.
I set a similar thing up and had it working within 5 minutes.
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Hiya everyone,
I've been getting quite a headache over this issue. Basically I just want to remove index.php from URLs, e.g. the URL http://mydomain.com/index.php should be changed to http://mydomain.com/ and http://mydomain.com/folder/index.php should be http://mydomain.com/folder/.
However, I also want to preserve any parameters passed to the page, e.g. http://mydomain.com/index.php?id=22&c=1 should be changed to http://mydomain.com/?id=22&c=1 and http://mydomain.com/folder/index.php?id=22&c=1 should be http://mydomain.com/folder/?id=22&c=1.
I've tried RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [NC] but that just gives me an HTTP 500. Also tried RewriteRule ^index.php - [NC] but that apparently does nothing.
Help? 
Thanks.
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would adding the following line in .htaccess solve your issue?
DirectoryIndex index.php
or do you want the page to redirect to http://mydomain.com/ even when a user enters http://mydomain.com/index.php ?
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Yeah, that. I've tried DirectoryIndex already.
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You might wanna try something in the lines of RewriteRule ^([^/?]+/)*index.php(\?.*)?$ $1 [NC,QSA,L]. This will rewrite all the index.php to folder/?whatever. You will probably need to play with it a little as I didn't have time to thouroughly check it. 
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Hello All,
Our company is looking into the purchase of the Visual Studio product. we are starting from stratch, meaning we do not have this product in house currently. Which of the above 2 would be a better bet?
Looking more like a comparison report.
Thanks so much for your time!
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Not knowing the usage you have planned for the tool or any backward compatibility issues you might have I would say VS2010 is the way to go. It doesn't make much since to buy a older version first. The features and stability of VS2010 make it worthwhile over VS2008
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Thanks for the fast response.
How long has VS 2010 been out?
Mainly be building web services connecting to SQL 2005.
2010 is compatible with SQL server 2005? Or do we need to migrate to SQL 2008?
Thanks.
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I believe it was release in April of this year. It is completely compatible with SQL Server 2005
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Plus not sure about the USA, here in the UK VS2008 is difficult / near to impossible to buy new copies of
As barmey as a sack of badgers
Dude, if I knew what I was doing in life, I'd be rich, retired, dating a supermodel and laughing at the rest of you from the sidelines.
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Unless you have some specific reason to use the older version, I would always go for the latest version when purchasing.
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I've got some javascript doing this:
<div title="'+Leave.startdate+'\n'+Leave.enddate+'" . . .
In IE, the tooltip shows up with a linefeed, but in Firefox, it doesn't...shows all on one line.
I tried changing it to \r\n, but it still shows up on one line in FF.
Firefox doesn't like line breaks in tooltips?
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Instead of \r\n, why don't you try the < br /> tag
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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I did. That was my first thought.
It put <br /> in there, literally. 
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I've always written my own HTML, but I recently dabbled a bit with MSHTML. The idea of a "quick and easy" WYSIWYG editor was interesting. What I discovered was that in terms of standards compliance, the HTML generated by the MSHTML editor would rank somewhere between the Titanic and Chernobyl. I found ways to mitigate some of it (deprecated tags, etc), but a lot of the fixes I applied were immediately undone by MSHTML itself.
So my question is this: Can MSHTML be made a viable solution for creating simple web pages? Most of what I do in this regard are just essays or brief articles - nothing complex. But I do insist upon standards-compliant code. Any thoughts?
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
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This Microsoft Web Editor is WYSIWYG and free but almost a 300MB download Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007[^] or you could try the bundled web editor SeaMonkey[^] and is a smaller download at around 10MB. I have not used SeaMonkey, but Sharepoint Designer 2007 is not too bad but does not support PHP pages.
If you need PHP support, although not WYSIWYG, try Aptana Studio http://aptana.com/[^]. Or, if you have [lots of] cash to spend, with PHP support, then DreamWeaver or MS Expressions Web will probably do.
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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Hi Richard...
I downloaded Aptana recently but haven't had time to check it out. It's been crazy around here for a couple months and I've had almost no time to do anything on the computer. Hopefully things are getting back to normal.
I tried Sea Monkey the other day. A good editor, but only one file open at a time. It does at least avoid font tags.
I briefly visited the Sharepoint Designer page. Supported OS only goes up to XP. I'll dig around later today and see what I can find about Vista support. I have my own code editor [^] I built a year ago and I may add PHP support to it.
Thanks a bunch. Hope you and yours had a Merry Christmas
AB
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
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Alan Burkhart wrote: I briefly visited the Sharepoint Designer page. Supported OS only goes up to XP.
I've had that thing (the 2007 version) previously installed on both Vista and Win7 with no problems whatsoever.
As you have Aptana, go check out the plug-ins, they are rather good. Also go get Notepad++ you will enjoy that little program. And if you intend PHP/MySQL development, you might consider getting the XAMPP suite, and then consider playing with something like CodeIgniter.
Alan Burkhart wrote: Hope you and yours had a Merry Christmas
It weren't too bad. Trust yours was everything you wanted. See you next door in SB1.
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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I installed XAMPP sometime back. Good product. Also have NotePad++, but I wrote my own text editor back in '06 and I like it better. NP++ is an excellent program in many ways, but it strikes me as being a bit bloated. Also have NoteTab Light, another good one. Mine has several tools I added that few other people would find useful but they work well for me. I may polish it up and submit it as a CP project at some point.
I'll drop by SB1 B4 the night is over. It's good to be back online.
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
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I have used many editors over the year, but have finally settled on notepad++ on windows, IMHO it is one of the best as it supports many lanuages and so I do not need to learn a new editor for a new language. It also has code complete, but you have to turn it on and it is not perfect, but still it know most of the php function names, html, javascript and css.
Sadly notepad++ is a windows only tool and so on linux I use Bluefish.
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cjoki wrote: ...but have finally settled on notepad++ on windows...
NP++ is a good editor. But I (and it's just a preference on my part) don't like "mega-editors" like NP++. I want my text editor to be simple and efficient, but without a ton of bells and whistles. I wrote my own text editor that's basically just Notepad with a toolbar and few tools I use on a regular basis. I also wrote my own HTML editor sometime back (uses ScintillaNet) and would love to add a WYSIWYG option. But I have yet to see a WYSIWYG editor that generates standards-compliant code. I've pretty given up on finding one that does.
Since dropping support for the ActiveEx browser control, MS now recommends a 3rd party control called FreeTextBox [^]. But its HTML is only marginally better than MSHTML and still produces some deprecated tags. I corresponded with the author and he admitted that his control has some compliance issues, but also says changing it to use styles within span tags (instead of font tags) would create problems with some of his customers. No clue here how compliant HTML could be a "problem."
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
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Everyone has their preferrence, but my reasoning stands. I have written many programs/scripts in many languages: html, css, javascript, php, sql, c, c++, java, and even python and perl. And prefer to not add to the complexity of programming by having to learn a new editor for any language I use.
NP++ is clean and simple even if it is filled with 40 other languages that I will most likely never use. But if I do use them I take comfort in knowing I do not have to learn a new editor.
In my experience a WYSIWYG editors all fail and add more bloat and bad code to your files. I have never found one that generated code like what I write, nor do they save me time when hand coding when you consider having to fix the WYSIWYG mistakes.
Nuf Said
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cjoki wrote: I have never found one that generated code like what I write, nor do they save me time when hand coding when you consider having to fix the WYSIWYG mistakes.
Your WYSIWYG experiences mirror my own. Where we differ is in regards to editors. I like having a dev environment specific to what I'm doing. I use VS for all my VB.Net projects, my HTML editor for web work, etc. One thing I have noticed about NP++ is that its find-replace tool is pleasingly fast when I use regular expressions. Noticeably faster than NoteTab or my own text editor.
While VS occasionally causes me to consider eating my computer, I do enjoy the drag-n-drop interface and all the tools it places at my disposal. And the tools I write for my own use are tailored for what I do, which removes the learning curve. I guess that's at the root of where we differ on editors. I often use my own tools from VB so I can make changes when I need to while working on something else. That's a wonderful (to me at least) convenience.
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
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I just prefer to write in a text editor over a gui interface. I feel much closer to the code.
Although for full disclosure I have delphi expereince and loved the RAD environment for application development. I also got to demo the early PHP GUI Editor when code gear (now embarcadero) first released it. My experience was just like that of MS Editor, although it did do a better job of keeping the code clean, but the code produced was way out of date. It made use of tables for page lay out instead of divs and css as was common for the day.
My end result is the same tho....a good text editor allows more control over the code made.
Just me 2 Cents.
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