Re: Gizmondo hack?

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Its a Windows CE device with a 400mhz Xscale processor... Its all
about windows.. The other links worked in Firefox though.

-Bryan Hurley

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:38:28 +0100, Roland Orre
<> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 05:45, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> > Anyone hear of folks hacking this handheld?
> > http://www.gizmondo.com
> 
> I started checking out their site, but when clicking on one of their
> links, about music, I got the the message cited below, i.e. I won't
> have anything to do with a site which is promoting Microsoft in that
> way, with unnessecary tests in their web scripts. I wrote the following
> message to them:
> ----------------------------
> Dear Dr Download,
> I was checking out the www.gizmondo.com site and there was a link
> to http://www.gizmondomusic.com/ which was redirected to
> http://sib1.od2.com/common/configerror.asp?shop=60&associd=2&problem=not_ie
> 
> There I've met by the following message:
> " The site you have tried to enter requires Internet Explorer 6 (or
> better) with Windows Media Player 7 (or better) on Windows XP, 2000, Me
> or 98. Click Here to use our Doctor Download application to help you
> check your configuration alternatively Email Dr Download."
> 
> I'm not using Internet Explorer, I don't want to use Internet Explorer,
> further on Internet Explorer is only available for MS Windows and
> possibly Mac OS.
> Why should you, with a bad test in your web-scripts like this,
> exclude all people not running Internet Explorer, Media Player,
> Windows etc.
> 
> I don't consider this your approach to be a serious one. Sites
> behaving like this are harming themselves. I recommend you to
> clean up your site.
> 
>         Best regards
>         Roland Orre
>         Chairman, PhD, NeuroLogic Sweden AB
> 
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