Fire ComcastTV

Well, the beat goes on.  Loaded (sort of) XBMC.  As usual the directions on xbmc.org for linux were bogus (http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Installing_XBMC_for_Linux)!  Bit of searching found some almost right directions (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1766855).  XBMC installs and runs (sort of).  It also crashes, really.  It's clearly much less stable than the Windows version.  I'll have to think this through a bit, but for the moment I'm not especially thrilled about the Ubuntu prospects.