by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: xBox as HD DVD hacking device?

analysis
Apr 11, 20071 min

Your Atari 2600 can't do this: Turns out the xBox may be able to do more than just serve up Madden NFL. A resourceful individual figured out a way to hack HD DVDs using the xBox's DVD drive. Will blu-ray discs be next? VMware Workstation revisited: The Test Center's recent desktop virtualization comparison pitted four solutions against each other: InnoTek VirtualBox, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation f

Your Atari 2600 can’t do this: Turns out the xBox may be able to do more than just serve up Madden NFL. A resourceful individual figured out a way to hack HD DVDs using the xBox’s DVD drive. Will blu-ray discs be next?

VMware Workstation revisited: The Test Center’s recent desktop virtualization comparison pitted four solutions against each other: InnoTek VirtualBox, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation for Windows, and VMWare Workstation. VMWare’s product was a Beta 3 release of the 6.0 version, so Randall Kennedy went back to run the test with a later build… and the results were interesting. Get the specifics on the Enterprise Desktop blog.

Microsoft security spotlight: It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Microsoft’s security fix teams. First, there was the rush emergency patch job to kill a bug in Windows’ processing of .ani files. Then, Patch Tuesday arrived with fixes for seven critical flaws. Now, it looks like there could be more vulnerabilities in Word 2007. Ouch. On the other hand, Oliver Rist lays out the means to improve your WEP security by making a few straightforward tweaks in Active Directory.