[Coco] CoCo Fest video and chat

[Jim Cox]

Roger, Roy, Justin, and others:

Thanks for putting this together for those of us who 
couldn't make it.

-Jim
http://www.miba51.com/
http://www.cloudymidnights.com/

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:50:58 -0500
  Roger Taylor <webmaster at coco3.com> wrote:
> Well, for the second year we've managed to pull off some 
>last-minute miracles and come up with a webcam feed from 
>the Last Annual Chicaco CoCo Fest.
> 
> This year we missed Saturday alltogether due to 
>connection problems but much to my surprise when I got up 
>this morning (Sunday) there appeared to be some attempts 
>from the fest at uploading cam pictures to the coco3.com 
>server.  When I checked the last image out it was 
>definately a shot from the fest floor, so I went to work 
>right away setting up the CoCo Cafe to display these 
>images.  For a while they weren't updating for long 
>periods of time, but all of a sudden things started 
>coming together.
> 
> So, before the day was wasted we managed to build up 
>some 14+ chatters at a time in the CoCo Cafe complete 
>with an updating picture from the fest floor.  Ofcourse, 
>the images had to be repainted over a blank background 
>due to how the chat system refreshes the web page, so the 
>fest images had to "ride along" as a static image on the 
>page and get updated whenever the page did.  Since the 
>cam rate and the chat rate were about the same, I didn't 
>bother putting in any fancy JavaScript to make the image 
>refresh while the chat page was idle, but I could have. 
> I'll save that for the next event that comes along with 
>a cam feed.
> 
> Actually, right now the cam is still going and it looks 
>like those guys are cleaning up and stuff, so if you 
>wanna catch it before they turn the cam off, here's the 
>link:
> 
> http://chat.coco3.com
> 
> Night, all.
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
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> Roger Taylor
> 
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