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If you see a Web Cam cache posted for a location in a wood in Texas, I suggest you avoid it - it may end up being your last ! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4022147.stm Only in America... Martin

Omally, either you were the only mad fool to do the cache in the dark or it's because you are yellow with a beak - quack. Thanks for pointing out the corrections. Martin

Woodsmoke, is 18011_8A.jpg your bike ? Martin

A big thankyou to everyone who has visited our cache The Solent Way, Hampshire. The photos from the cache camera are now online [click here]. I have done my best to put names to faces using the cache logs, but there are still many that I couldn't be sure of. If you let me know the filename (listed under the photo) I'll make sure you are properly named ! Regards Martin

I’ve just successfully installed and run this on my Palm Tungsten C. OK it’s not strictly a mobile phone but it is a mobile device and it does run J2ME (as of today!). Now if only I can convince our T610 to cooperate…. Martin

No 4 is Freak Enterprises and Team Cerys Martin

I stand corrected, serves me right for not checking my facts :-) The 6310i does have Java support, the 6310 (without the i) does not. Martin

Simple, the 6310i doesn't have Java support. Martin

I had the same problem as you described in scenario 1 (not 2, thank heavens). My theory is that it's using the wrong GPRS connection. Our phone from O2 has two sets of GPRS settings, one for O2 WAP and one for Internet (can't remember exactly how they named it). The WAP GPRS settings are on CID 1 and the Internet on CID 2. The convention is that the internet connection should always be on CID 1. I'm not sure why there should be a difference between the wap settings and the internet ones, but since there are two sets of settings I guess there must be a good reason. I'm guessing too that the J2ME engine in the phone will bring up the connection on CID 1. Unfortunately you can't just edit the settings and change the CID number, you have to delete them both and re-enter the details - pain. I haven't had a chance to test my theory as it's my wife's phone. I think O2 haven't provisioned the phone as well as they could have done. I already had to provide the correct dns settings just to be able to download the midlet in the first place... Martin

I just tried accessing the http://stats.guk2.com/caches/mobile_midlet.jad URL directly and guess what - it works. So I take back my comment in my last post about the jad file. How exactly are you doing the redirect from stats.guk2.com/caches/mobile_midlet.jad to mobile.guk2.com ? Are these separate servers ? If so, are the mime types set on both servers ? Regards Martin

I successfully managed to download and run the Alarm Clock and the Spruce HTTPgetter from wap.spruce.jp on the T610, so network and handset must be OK. Perhaps you are right about there being a problem with your jad file... Martin

Have you got the mime types set correctly on the machine that is actually serving the midlet files ? [Extract from java.sun.com] ... eventually you'll need to test provisioning of actual devices from an actual web server. You'll need to deploy your application on a public server, one that is accessible to the general Internet population, and the server will need to be configured with the following MIME type mappings: the .jad file extension must map to the text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor type and the .jar extension to the application/java-archive type. Note that versions 4.0 and higher of the Tomcat server already include these mappings in their conf/web.xml files. Regards Martin

Me too, we just bought a Sony Ericcson T610 today and the first thing I tried was downloading this utility. I got the same error that Motley Crew received. The T610 definitely has Java support, there are some Java games pre-installed on it that display a large Java logo when you fire them up. I believe that the T610 has MIDP2.0 support and I think OTA provisioning is one of the things that changed between MIDP 1.0 and MIDP 2.0. Martin

I can’t stay silent any longer. I am extremely saddened that my enjoyable family hobby is being ruined like this. I see in another thread that this has cost us the services of another set of moderators. I’m not going to point fingers at anyone or take sides as I think there have been serious mistakes on both sides. I believe Rockratgirl and Icenians both owe Phil Allen (the country side manager at HCC) an apology for the way in which they have spoken to him. This gentleman has come to our forum and has been treated with nothing but contempt and rudeness. This in my opinion is no way to speak to someone from outside our community and is no way for adults to carry on a debate. As a Hampshire resident who was about to seek permission to hide a new cache, I am annoyed to find that neither Rockrategirl nor Icenians live in the Hampshire area. I ask everyone to show a lot more respect and courtesy to others, especially those parties outside the community. [This message was edited by Freak Enterprises on May 12, 2003 at 01:41 PM.]

I hear that muggles have bad eye sight

The Freak Enterprises family will be there. I'm willing to help out in any way required. Perhaps those of us willing to help should buy a gc(uk).com t-shirt before hand so that the muggles know who to talk to ? Martin

Whilst up in the Alps, in Davos, Switzerland, in January, I used my T68i and Palm Tungsten T over GPRs. The speed was adequate and I could keep up with the UK Geocaching scene. I even read this forum over this set up. I've tried the Ipaq 3870 with the T68i but the Tungsten T's browser does clever stuff to optimise use of the limited bandwidth and is therefore nicer to use. Martin in Davos with GPS and PDA

I had this posted in the log for my cache : "Third time lucky. We've invested in a GPS and wow what a difference. We found it within 10 minutes of reaching the site." I won't name names, but it gave us a good laugh! Martin

I voted for one, but mathematically it should be 0.5

Slightly off topic but I'd like to see a report of caches with the highest not found to found ratio. wouldn't these be the caches that people have found most difficult?

"The treasure hut that's Fun, Exciting, Exhilarating, great for Individuals and Families alike." That wouldn't be Pizza Hut would it? Tell your wife she's not alone, it took almost a year to convince my wife but after one cache she was totally hooked. Martin

I followed Teasel's advice and just kept pressing "N" to the "do you want to abort" message and it came up in the end. And it was well worth the wait ! If the reason it is slow to start up is because there is so much data to transfer, can you return the data from the server as a compressed zipped data stream ? I have ADSL so I don't have a slow conection. Martin

It sounds like I'm the only one who can't get it to work :-( The progress bar shows "Loading caches" for a few minutes (but the bar doesn't go up) then a dialog box pops up saying "a script in this movie is causing Macromedia Player 6 to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script?" If I press no it waits a second or two then pops up the same dialog. If I press no the progress bar shows "processing caches", the bar sits at about 25%, the map is covered with blue and a few red dots and the "Please Wait" sign is still displayed. I hope this feedback is of use to you. Martin

This is me and my son Reiss on October 26 2002. Reiss is holding the Piglet he found in the cache. Martin [This message was edited by Freak Enterprises on February 17, 2003 at 12:18 PM.]

My Mother-in-law keeps calling our little hobby "Geocoshing". Perhaps this is what she was reffering to? :-) Or perhaps she just thinks we hunt small white platsic tubs and beat them senseless with a handheld GPS.... Martin [This message was edited by Freak Enterprises on January 30, 2003 at 07:28 AM.]