It never ceases to amaze me this system I have installed for a few months. "UBUNTU" - free of charge and with everything 3 or 4 times over that Windows has. This is the current opening screen shot now.... ..simple - as you can see, the old ones were kinda more amusing - but distracting  and there are a couple of things that just never cease to amaze me. Yesterday was a perfect example. I knew that Windows had updates to be installed, that Mozilla had brought out the new Firefox and various other things, so I had to boot up my 2nd computer, running on WIN XP Pro SP3 (otherwise you won't get the updates) and sure enough, there they were - waiting for me! Now Windows updates always are a pain, and I recall a certain gentleman's statement when dealing with the subject of " Linux " in general - he sounded worried.. ..and has every right to. In any case, I started to install the one and only update available, and an hour later....it was still going! Of cour...