Well, my wife - bless her! - decided to copy it and she succeeded. So come summertime when we want something cool yet filling and relatively healthy, we break out the potato salad. Assuming I haven't demolished it already.

Kubuntu Upgrade
As some of you may remember I had an old computer (1 ghz) sitting around taking space so I wiped out Windoze 98 and installed Kubuntu, which is simply Ubuntu but using KDE instead of Gnome as its manager. Well, Kubuntu got upgraded this past week and I made the executive decision to go for it. Sunday morning, I booted the computer and - lo and behold! - it told me that a new version was available. So I started the process and away it downloaded.

Sure, it took five hours to download and install everything but it was one smooth process. So smooth in that there was only one, count them Microsoft, ONE reboot at the very end. I didn't lose any data not that I had any to lose and everything works well. There was only one minor glitch with the upgrade in that the old system would shut off my computer on a shutdown and this version doesn't, it justs halts everything. I thought I had found the solution when I found the SHutdown options and add a "-p" to the the Halt command but it didn't shut off my computer. I'll find it though unless someone tells me first (hint, hint).

But, to summarize, the upgrade was painless, the price was perfect (free!), and the OS is stable. installed Kubuntu r00l3z!

al-Zarqawi Dead
I'm surprised that Bush is on TV 24/7 gloating "Mission accomplished!" about the death of al-Zarqawi. Humility is not Bush's style but maybe the Admin is getting wise to the fact that most Americans don't give a flying anymore about Iraq or any of that "War on Terrorism" we're so embroiled in.

Fact is, Bush *STILL* hasn't done jack about getting bin Laden despite all of the proclamations against terrorism. Not only is bin Laden still loose somewhere but the Taliban are making a comeback in Afghanistan. Mission not done there.

As for al-Zarqawi, had anyone outside of the snoops heard of this guy before the invasion or Iraq? Nope. Not until after we invaded and gotten stuck in the mire did he start up. Arguably, Bush made him what he was by giving him the opportunity to ply the bomb trade using our kids as targets.

And as for the "War on Terrorism", forget it. It can't be won or lost. It's not a military thing either. It's a cultural thing and unless we want to do a little bout of genocide the "terrorists" can't and won't be eliminated. Keeping our troops in Iraq won't help matters either. Somehow making Iraq stable isn't going to, miraculously, make the world free of terrorists. We'll just have a change of venue and even then there's no guarantee that Iraq will stay stable or remain free of the bad guys.

But give Bush a brownie point for not saying something stupid about al-Zarqawi...yet.