Please folks the rules are you can not get on live if you mode your box. You still have your XBox you just can not play it on line anymore.

Not true. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27102710
Microsoft is not allowing banned xbox to connect to media center either. This isn't just about disabling the ability to game on xbox live. They are trying to kill the used xbox 360 market with this move.

And it's problematic if you do like editing config files. At least when I was using it (Suse 10.0 or 10.1?) before I switched to Kubuntu, Yast didn't play well with config files I had hand-edited and tended to overwrite my changes. Package management was god-awful in the Suse 10 release too, but I'm assuming that's been fixed by now.

If you know of any ways to capture Hulu streams (either via webpage or their desktop app), I'd love to know.

I would think that the Hauppauge.com HD PVR http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html would do the trick, as long as you have a video card that supports component output.

Any device that uses DRM to limit what the user can do after they have purchased it has already lost, in my opinion. The Amazon Kindle 1984 deletion debacle is a good example of why giving the manufacturer control of the content on the device is a very bad thing. I like to OWN the things that I buy, not license them. Why does Barnes and Noble have the right to decide that I can only loan MY book to someone else for 14 days?

Is the N900 locked down via something like Symbian Signed? I know it's not a Symbian device, but given Nokia's history with Sybmian Signed...

BS. Auto air conditioning does not reduce mileage very much, according to the article here: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Autos/story?id=1274541 "As for using the air conditioner, go ahead. It has little impact on gas mileage." So unless you are starting your car and leaving it running in the driveway with the A/c at full blast for five minutes before you drive off, there shouldn't be much of an impact on mileage.

It really depends on the CFL bulb. I have 3 GE G40 bulbs that come on at almost full brightness instantly in my bathroom vanity. The fourth bulb in the fixture is a G40 CFL from Costco that takes about 3 minutes to come up to full brightness. It's a dull red color for several minutes compared to the bright white of the GE bulbs. I also had 3 of these Costco CFL bulbs burn out after only about 4 months of usage too. Cheap Chinese junk.

Good to know. Thanks AC!

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.