[General Topics] KGD:
Mini Install: Completely Insane!

Am I the only one who has noticed this?

Okay, I am just flat an' purely going out of my mind. I have surfed HUNDREDS of pages (with IEM... urk!), and read ALL about regedits, scripts, writing goddamned hex code(!), all just to run the coolest to hit town since ice cubes browser, Opera Mini 4 Beta 2. Now I've run yet ANOTHER brick wall.

In trying to run a new install of jbed on my iPAQ 211, I only get the message:

"The file 'Jbed' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file."

I have installed this and two other slightly older versions several times each, and gotten the same message, so I think it is the certificate thing.

The files I have tried to install are

"Esmertec_Jbed200802223.1," and

"Esmertec Jbed 20080222 3[1].1," and

"Jbed 20070802.zip" (Cloudyfa), and

"JbedJava_20070622_2_1,"

(Or more accurately tried to run. They all installed just FINE, thank you.)

ALL with the same error message.

I've tried downloading the heralded IBM Jbed 6.1 (please contact your IBM Representative). Menneisyys, as wonderful as his contributions to the community have been, never updated his review to say how ridiculousy difficult getting this file is, at least in the oh, half a dozen posts I've seen.

I've parsed the Opera site top to bottom (hey, mebbe I just missed it in the two or three HUNDRED pages I savored there). Note: Opera obviously couldn't POSSIBLY care less about Mini on the Pocket PC (cuts into Opera Mobile sales?).

Oh, I suppose I could go look at several hundred MORE pages and figure out how to filch a "trusted certificate," but what the hell, I thought I'd throw it out here amongst the brainiacs... see what I (or you) came up with :o )

And yes, I just had to rant about how INSANELY propeller-headed this whole process is... and I haven't even BEGUN to edit the the registry, or incorporate scripts, or mumble incantations over a bubbling pot, or whatever harrowing adnentures yet await me.

Hmm, speaking of editing the the registry, TalynONe sez (in what is really, a pretty good post): "Note: A forum user has reported that the freeware application, Total Commander does NOT create the shortcut properly."

And several other posts tell me that I must purchase this $30 program, just to make the "free" Opera Mini work (actually Opera Mini isn't REMOTELY free to Pocket PC users: the man-hours to get it going for the relatively intelligent, but NOT blackhat hacker, are preposterous).

Anyway, the regedit scripts (or whatever they're called) I've seen don't seem to quite jibe with my iPAQ 211 registry. Not that I know from editing the the registry. 'Scu-u-u-u-se me! <LOL> I must be forgiven for wanting to just install and use a program! But, Were they written for WM5? Does that matter?

So, here I am, with a half rant, half earnest plea: is there some idiot-proof way to do this? I'm tired of IEM's laggarly loading, but if I include the hours I've spent already, Opera Mini is the slowest program since I began learning the abacus.

Somebody, PLEASE, show me what zipper-head I am, and point out just how easy this all really is!

Best,

Jack