virtual present using webcam
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What is this about? Well you've probably all seen those status messages on webpages saying '3 users online'. Well this project will use a motion detector on my local webcam, when it senses that someone is moving around in my room it'll update my online, then when there's no movement offline. Simple.
xmlwebpackage
: What is it? Well its basically using the same idea as a compiled help file (eg. chm). But, the content will be stored in plain text in an xml file, then zipped into a non compressed archive along with the pictures and other document related files. When the page is requested by the client, the picture files are streamed straight from the archive by the web server as if they were separate files. All this content will then be combined and formatted using a specified Dreamweaver template file. So content can simply be 'plugged' into the website and the...
MS Released what looked to only be a partial implementation of their XMLparser with windows 2000, this was then finished by windows XP and a patchis floating around to update windows 2000. Now there is .NET, with its own built in XML parsing.
I have been pulling data from a sql server, and then saving it out to XML. I then use the windows XML Parser to run it against an XSLT template to create my desired output file. Anyway .NET saves out a thing that looks like this: ' ;' not exactly sure what it is yet, however...
I've noticed an unusual process starting up after I installed Visual Studio .NET 2005 b2.
mscorsvw.exe is .net 2.0's assembly optimizer. The good news is; it starts up and works away in the background optimizing .net assemblies for your pc. However I did notice, when installed on WindowsXP SP1 that has been upgraded to SP2 the mscorsvw.exe process starts up and claims an unbearable amount of CPU.
It is apparently supposed to optimize in the background after it does your core assemblies which should apparently only take a few minutes. If it doesn't you've got a problem.
My solution come coincidently...