just look at what kind of dream prices these items can be had for:
XBOX, PS2, GAMECUBES - $30
DELL Notebooks and Desktops - $70-$125
Apple IPODs - $60
Personal DVD Player - $60
Alienware Laptop - $190, Alienware Area51 - $160
Apple Powerbook - $135
Samsung 42" Plasma Screen TVs - 250$
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At 08:36 PM 1/7/03 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>And apart from that, what was the point of CSS? You can do a "dd" on a
DVD
>and play the image from a hard drive. I don't have a DVD burner, but
I'd
>imagine you could burn a DVD from such an image, so direct copying is
>probably easy enough. Mayb
From: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Also, some would argue that microsoft does use forms of coercion to get
> ultimately use their products.
Quite similar to the people who try and argue that Napoleon was a horse,
right?
> will be some slight pressure on 'Soft to get the prices back up to
ually bust down my door if I
accidentally drop and break an Xbox open?
Also, some would argue that microsoft does use forms of coercion to get
ultimately use their products. Whether one agrees with this or not, a nice
little "byproduct" of hacking an Xbox and turning it into a PC is
gal to use DeCSS to play dvd's. So if
you haven't already got a copy, you can get one now, in Sweden at least.)
.
There is a product called DVD region x for the xbox that allows you to play
dvd's from any region coming out soon. As it probably has to be signed by
Microsoft (
> Eric Cordian[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
[...]
> Ignoring for the moment that The Neo Project had zero chance of factoring
> a 2048 bit key using publicly available algorithms, their caving under
> imagined legal pressure strikes me as a really bad precedent.
>
[...]
The N
Windows installed can now be had for about
the price of an XBox, and given that the graphics chip in the Xbox is
not used by any of the Linux server uses (so far as I know), the main
value of hacking the Xbox is for cuteness, to show that it can be done.
(The approximately $200-300 Linux box comes
Tim writes:
> Given that x86 boxes without Windows installed can now be had for about
> the price of an XBox, and given that the graphics chip in the Xbox is
> not used by any of the Linux server uses (so far as I know), the main
> value of hacking the Xbox is for cuteness, to show
Slashdot is reporting that The Neo Project, a distributed computing
effort, has ceased trying to factor Microsoft's Xbox binary signing key,
due to "legal reasons," and the fact that many of their current
participants don't want to be soiled by association with somethin
Slashdot is reporting that The Neo Project, a distributed computing
effort, has ceased trying to factor Microsoft's Xbox binary signing key,
due to "legal reasons," and the fact that many of their current
participants don't want to be soiled by association with somethin
Title: 0301_memmail
Title: 0301_memmail
Hackers make Xbox into a Windows PC
The Xbox has been made to run Microsoft's own operating system, turning it
into an ordinary desktop workstation, courtesy of some Linux trickery. The
accomplishment is a comment on the insecurity of secure hardware
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,
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