The freely available x360mediaserver http://sourceforge.net/projects/x360mediaserve/ will send streaming internet radio to the xbox360. It runs on any PC with java (Linux or windows). I haven't tried it with last.fm, but I assume it would work. If it doesn't, run the Lastfm stream through LastFMProxy http://vidar.gimp.org/?page_id=50 and connect to the proxied stream with x360mediaserve.

QT is probably the best GUI toolkit in history, in my opinion. Since it's now available under the LGPL license, I have to assume that the development project the whiner from Google is talking about was done before the LGPL QT 4.5 version was released or is not written in C++. Standardization is fine and all, but please, please don't standardize on GTK. Take a look at the hideously ugly GTK file picker for an example of why the usability of GTK UIs leaves something to be desired.

So don't pay a yearly fee to Microsoft to watch Netflix then. Buy MediaMall's Playon server for a one-time $40 fee and stream Netflix, Hulu, CBS, etc. content to the xbox. It's windows-only, but it does run fine in a VBOX Windows XP virtual machine on a linux host. To hell with Xbox Live. Who needs it?

Hence the success of the netbook market segment. Unfortunately for Dell, netbooks have lower profit margins than standard laptops.

How about lowing (or even removing) taxesd on things that are likely to help keep you fit.

Or how about we stop using the tax code to coerce people into whatever behavior the political class wants to encourage this month. Just have a flat tax with no exemptions and be done with it.

Well, the Atom 270 and 280 processors they are using for most netbooks don't have VT-x. I assume they left the feature off these chips to save on power draw.

Can someone please tell me why Fox News is always singled out on Slashdot? Is CNN and MSNBC any better? If so, explain.

Fox News tends to have a right wing agenda. Fox was on when I was at the gym yesterday afternoon. They were interviewing some ex-mayor from someplace in New Jersey who was advocating closing the US/Mexico border and was basically claiming that we needed to crack down on illegal immigration because, you see we have hundreds of thousands of these Mexicans sneaking into our country and they would be the biggest threat to the US in spreading the swine flu. Fox News idea of fair and balanced is to give voice to this xenophobic racist crap. That is why many here don't care for Fox News.

That's the advantage of swapping, some one else is worrying about battery replacement. Kind of like your BBQ propane tank, they get old, but its not your problem.

Yes, it would be your problem. Say that I have a brand new car with 150 miles on the battery. I go to one of these battery exchange stations and my new battery gets swapped out for a battery with 200,000 miles on it. That to me would be a big problem (and is why I have only used the BBQ propane exchanges when I have had very old tanks).

If the customer is only billed for the 13 "real" watts used per the summary, then this is a non-issue. I paid for a 13 watt bulb advertising $x in saving on my electric bill, and I get $x in saving on my electric bill. I make my purchasing decisions based on the cost to me, not on the cost to the power company.

The content providers just don't want you using Hulu on your actual TV.

But most TVs sold over the past few years, at least the HDTV LCD and Plasma ones (but not my SDTV unfortunately) have at least one DB15 (vga) or HDMI input. There really isn't much to stop even a fairly clueless tech user from hooking a laptop up to their TV and watching Hulu on the TV. I do think you are right, oracleguy01, that the content providers are trying to make a distinction between TV and PC, but the with the way these things are converging I think they are going to lose on this one. A laptop (which most people already have) and a $16 vga cable from RadioShack http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2261573&tab=techSpecs is really all that is needed to watch the likes of Hulu on a modern TV.

Yes, you're right; this strategy is bound to fail. Why are the suits always so damn stupid when it comes to the internet? Do MBA programs select those with low IQs or is there something with the business school curriculum that encourages faulty thinking and stupidity? What Google and Yahoo should do is flex a little muscle and just stop indexing AP content whenever they hear any hint of these types of threatened lawsuits and teach the AP a little lesson in why they shouldn't try the legal blackmail approach. I think the AP needs the search engines and aggregators more than the search engines need the AP.

Don't forget about fresh water reserves too. Water wells would start becoming contaminated with sea water too. You could rebuild the city near by, but can you restore their essential supplies like drinking water?

You could always build a desalination plant. I don't think that most cities get their water from wells, either. In my experience, at least in the Western USA, metropolitan water supplies come from large sources of groundwater, such as a reservoir.

Did he really break the law? He works for News Corp. News corp owns Fox, which owns the copyright to the movie. He is writing an review as part of his job as a journalist for News corp. Surely an authorized employee of the copyright holder can download their the company's own movie. This just sounds like quibbling between different divisions of a holding company to me.

I complained about this very type of issue (having to modify driver source code before it will compile for a specific distribution) in a previous post on this topic, but if you are using ubuntu, have a look at this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766850 As always, YMMV. Good luck!

Your post is very helpful, so please don't take my response as a criticism of you, but this is the very sort of thing that people really should not have to accept in Linux. There is no reason a distro designated as a long-term support release should not provide updated driver packages for the currently shipping versions of supported hardware. The user should really never have to build a driver from source. It's a deal killer for anyone with just an average level of technical ability. I've been using Linux for around 8 years, and it's still something I dread. In my experience, what often happens that the source code for the app/driver was built with a certain version of a specific distribution in mind (generally redhat), and something like the config script, etc. needs to be tweaked to get the damn thing to compile on another distribution. Even worse is the case when a required library needs to be of a greater version than the one included in your distribution before the code in question will compile. Now you need to compile the library from source too, and risk breaking god knows what other applications. Having a mix of deb/rpm packages from official repositories and programs compiled from source tends to make the system unstable over time. checkinstall helps, but still...