There was a documentary about climate change hoax on Finnish YLE channel (it's like BBC of Finland) couple of weeks ago. It basically told that the climate data collected from Finland was turned upside down so that it would show warming instead of cooling etc. People who understand Finnish can check it out from Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmJiZfyDPE People who don't understand Finnish can just check these few seconds where they show how they flipped Finnish data: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suySkDny-zk#t=7m00s

I have never had dropped frames with my box. It has 4GB of memory and I'm using XBMC Live installed on a flash card so there aren't any extra processes wasting CPU time. It would be nice to hear if those who are experiencing dropped frames are using stock Ubuntu installs or XBMC Live installs.

Anything with Nvidias ION board can handle high bitrate 1080p movies without dropped frames. Here is a link to the board I used for my XBMC http://pden.zotac.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=169&category_id=15&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1

My firewall currently runs M0n0wall on ALIX board and it has worked perfectly for me. This is the board I used: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2c3.htm

USA, Liberia and Myanmar... What a lovely combo!

In Finland it is. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/15/finland.internet.rights/index.html

I love how the Americans think that suing everybody is the best solution for every problem.

Even though 2.1 still misses some of the features that were in 1.4 series of Amarok it is simply the best music player on Linux. I really hope that the new multi platform approach works and people on Windows and Mac will try it out.

I think my Nokia E71 uses the GSM network or something to acquire the lock in a few seconds. Nokias navigation application sucks but the GPS implementation is really good in my opinion.

It just couldn't simply because there isn't wind all the time and we don't have any realistic way to store energy for calm days. Wind could be useful as a part of the energy production but with current technology there is no way wind could be used as the only energy source.

I would think so. It seems like everyone is using either 192.168.0.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24 subnets and once in a while somebody has set up 10.0.0.0/24 subnet so your internal addresses wouldn't be that hard to guess. With IPv6 we could forget all this NAT crap and use "real" IP addresses.

Exactly. These "3D" systems have been coming for decades and in the end they have been total crap. I believe when I see one with my own eyes.

No thanks. I would expect at least 10 hours of battery life from a netbook running an ARM processor.