Good IR receiver / remote

[molaqq]

Can anyone recommend a good USB IR receiver and remote set that will work fairly reliably with boxee for ubuntu 8.04?

[Gamester17]

Microsoft's MCE Remote version 2 (the Windows Media Center Remote for XP or Vista)
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Center-Control-Receivier/dp/B000FNDPS6/

Look at LIRC comability list if you are willing to do some keymap re-mapping configuguration yourself: http://lirc.org

:)