[Am-info] Tee-hee

[John J. Urbaniak]

I love it!  Everybody go out and buy an X-BoB cheap and use it to
install Linux (maybe even OS/2)!  Heck, Microsoft loses about $250 on
each one they sell.

By the way, MSFT closed below $50 today.

John

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MIT grad student hacks into Xbox security
                 system

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/pf/news_story.jsp?TickerSymbols=MSFT&x=51&y=7&id=352866988&dt=20020603163800&w=RTR&coview=

 LOS ANGELES, June 3 (Reuters) - A graduate
student at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology has found a way to circumvent the
security system for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox
video game console, opening the way for
hackers to use it to run competing software,
 according to documents released over the
weekend.

...

Computer enthusiasts have been excited about
the possibility of using the $199 Xbox, which is
technologically similar to a PC, as a
 stand-alone computer running operating
 systems like Linux.

Some see it as the ultimate slight against
Microsoft -- using the software giant's own
hardware to run software that competes against
its Windows operating system.