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...

 I'm really rather proud of myself! After nearly a year of sitting around with a brand new PC, much, much better than the old one, but which didn't work, thanks to the incapabilities of MSI and their so called Technicians, even after 3 journey's (paid for by them) Vauvert - Paris - Brussels - Amsterdam - some little place in Holland ....and back....YES...THREE TIMES....! One would think they would finally do something reasonable, but no....just send it back with the same old system from 2004 or so, needing updates (payable) for a Linux system proud of saying that it was free, and even then - didn't work! After partitioning (and if you don't know what that is be thankful) I finally got it to use Windows XP - except it refused to go onto the Internet and was therefore practically USELESS....! Finally, fed up with waiting for promised discs to return - Post or whatever - I took an Installation disc for a truly free  Linux system called UBUNTU.... Well, well - look...