At 10:22 AM 6/7/98 -0600, you wrote:
 
Hi Jerry and Friends,
 
Oh darn I was just posting Jerry a note and he found out his server was not
using his cgi code or something.<G> But the OLd Drone is not dead and all
are welcome to visit the 24 hr Bee Cam, spy cam, and swarm cam that has
never failed, yet. Someday I may get hardware to go along with the software
but until then enjoy what I have put together..
 
BTW the "spy cam" software is free for all if interested use the button at
my site to D/L it. I really would like to see more beekeepers do the Bee
Cam thing, the cameras are not all that expensive today and it would be
something that would bring in the public to beekeeping web sites.
 
>Andy Nachbauer says:
>Try the Bee SPY-Cam (under construction)
 
http://beenet.com/bcam/swarm.htm
 
My Bee Cams are Amazing and  almost work every time, I hope someday to have
more then the software as I have some turtle eggs that would be a hoot to
watch hatching. But not sure if I will have it together in the 30 days they
take to hatch.<G>
 
>Bee sure and see the Dead Drone at
>"University of Montana Bee Cam"
 
The Drone is not dead, it just seemed that way or he was revived with a
heavy dose of web page Viagra called Java.<G>
 
What a drag some of this web page stuff is, I just answered a viewer who
said it took 1/2 hour to load my index page or cover page. About all I
could say is that there are few web pages I have ever seen that I would
have waited more the a few minutes for them to load and I was sorry my own
loads so slow.
 
My own knowledge of the art of it all is not progressed to the point that I
can have duel pages so that what I now offer is in a graphic format and not
text format. I started out to late in this effort and missed the text
format of the early web days as I opted to do the dial up BBS thing and
have ANSI graphics. Not to say I won't move back towards more text as I
learn as I have seen some very good use of text on the web.
 
Right now its HTML and Java and all should know that MickeySoft does not do
the cutting edge Java stuff with IE v.4 (98) and if a user or viewer wants
to see the full Java experience they must use Netscape,  v.4 preferred.
 
>"University of Montana Bee Cam"
http://www.umt.edu/biology/bees
>As soon as he linked to the correct address, he saw moving bees.
 
True.
 
>Had us scratching our heads about that Dead Drone.  Thought it might be Andy.
 
I was scratching myself yesterday and today when it all started to return
server errors.<G>
I guess there is a lot of advantage of having several servers, not sure
what it is but its nice when it works.
 
>Ever since we got our observation hive on-line, we have been working
>towards a better video server.  Our video cam now has a dual 333 MHz
>processor unit firing the camera.  You can see a cam image at 15 second
>intervals (for those of you with slow connections) or a "video" of bees
>moving into and out of the hive at 1 second intervals.
 
It really was looking good, I could see a difference. Have not tried the
video's yet.
 
ttul, Andy-
Los Banos, California