NEW UPDATE AS
OF October 13, 2009!
After a crazy
2008 where Sun Micro and Java provided numerous updates that
contained some bugs that made it such that a lot of our viewers were
not seeing updating camera images - that is all behind us!
Woohoo!
During a lot of
2007 and 2008 we had to suffer through a period wherein Sun MicroSystems
was making tweaks to the way that Java played with the display
of many of the websites like ours that display automatically, java
refreshed images on our personal computers.
They got all of those kinks worked out late in 2008 and we are
also proud and happy to say that Sun MicroSystems, the creators of
JAVA, actually called us personally and had their engineers work on
some problems that THEY admitted was an oversight within the later
updates in 2008. Evidently we get enough traffic on this site
that enough people were complaining to JAVA.com and mentioned our
website!
Their engineers looked us over, called us and released their
newest updates complete with tweaks that make our images (and others
that use Java updated camera images) begin working smoothly again!
Pretty cool!
SO, IF YOU CAN NOT SEE OUR CAM PAGES UPDATING
AUTOMATICALLY...read on for the fix.
First, make sure that you can not see ANY cameras updating,
because sometimes there are cams that are down for any number of
reasons.
As a test and if you can see the image updating on this page:
http://www.highcountrywebcams.com/webcameras_BeechSlopeside.htm,
then you should see them running on other cams. If none of
the cams are updating for you, then simply go to
www.Java.com and download the
latest update and BOOM you will be running fine.
If you go to the newest update and STILL can't
see the cams updating, try the following:
By DEFAULT,
even the newest JAVA will not automatically be set to show the
webcams updating new images every few seconds because by DEFAULT
JAVA CACHES the image and won't allow it to show the newest one.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO START SEEING LIVE IMAGES AGAIN IS TO FOLLOW
THIS SIMPLE STEP THAT DISABLES JAVA CACHING! Woo hoo!
Here is how Java cache can be disabled.
If you see a Java icon in the system tray when the applet is loaded,
right click that java icon, choose "OPEN CONTROL PANEL".
Step ONE: Under the General Tab in Java Control Panel, There is
TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES, Click SETTINGS under Temporary Internet
Files title.
Step TWO: Uncheck "Keep temporary files on my computer" and click
"Delete Files" button. Delete Applets and Applications, and Trace
and Log files.
Then click Ok, and Apply. That's all!
NOTE: If the Java icon does not appear in the system tray, goto
Windows Control Panel. In Classic View, There is an item named Java.
Open it and follow above procedure.
(Hint for Vista: In windows control panel, type java in the search
bar at the right top of the window.)
Closing comments:
Every computer is different and some of you are using older systems,
Mac's etc. Your JAVA program may be different and we've heard
of some situations where people can't seem to disable caching, etc.
While we regret that you may not be able to see the live images,
there is nothing that we can do to help you. The issue is not
with our programming, JAVA's programming or our cameras. The
issue is within your computer.
Drop us an email to let us know that it worked for you! mike@appnet.com
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