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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (68949)	3/3/2010 10:33:42 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 110655

Hulu's days as a free online video site could be ending soon. news.yahoo.com

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (68949)	3/4/2010 1:15:04 PM
From: Mike McFarland	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110655

I know everybody already appreciates just how fragmented teevee service has become, but here is my experience... As far as Hulu goes, there are very few series I feel compelled to watch, so I haven't used it yet. But I remember those great ads. Strange that I haven't had need for it yet, but I'll check it out. I do rent from Netflix--a year or two delay is worth the quality of DVD for a good series (Deadwood, Rome). I went through the first couple years of the American version of The Office that way, as well as the remake of Battlestar Galactica. My wife is crazy for House MD and The Office--she is one who wants them as soon as she can get them, but seems to find them easily enough on the network websites. Maybe half the time she watches the show at the normal network time slot. There are a few things I can get from my XBOX 360 service, they have an archive of the Olympics in HD, so I bought a few hours of skating and some ski jumping. They have Planet Earth in HD on there, and since I don't have a blue ray player that seems to be a good way to get HD, a couple bucks per episode, it is stuck under the Zune section and my xbox installed something the first time. The Netflix service through XBOX Live is a notch better than through my PC, at least in terms of ease of use because the controller is easier when I watch the TV. I don't use my Comcast service much--I flip channels in the middle of the night, insomniac that I am. Over the air or cable teevee streaming garbage all night seems like a huge waste of bandwidth--before dawn this morning I was amused and then sickened by an advert for a 'girls gone wild' dvd, there were a few ads for bizzare looking vacuum cleaners, plenty of evangelists on the air, and I spent 30 seconds on CNBC (a timer counting down to jobless claims measuring down to hundredths of a second, ha!) and then settled on a guest lecture at the Tulane Freeman School of Business on one of our University/public access type channels. Now this actually was worth watching--this was some big fund private equity guy who completely understood where things stood in 2008, very good lecture, and I forgot his name darn it. ---------------------- My dual boot saga continues... So I've finally booted up linux, Mint 8, Helena, which is a distro of Ubuntu--Karmic Koala, ha, you have to like all the names. Now...even though I deactivated in bios my second storage HDD, the installation still sees it and does not report my partitions correctly! Oh well, nothing is perfect--so I had to actually pull out that drive. Now the installation sees everything on the first drive correctly. It even reports what is on each partition--XP MCE, Dell utilities, the empty partition I peeled off with Easeus, and a small swap partition. I intend to do this manually as the automatic choice "install side by side" does not seem to want to share exactly what it will do which is unsettling. Although I am backed up, so I suppose I can take the chance. I just typed this up using Firefox, just off the Mint boot CD, with the installation just sitting there waiting for me to flinch, heh. Since I don't know which "mount point" to choose, I'm probably going to have to do some reading. Nice to have firefox and internet access from just a CD!