Welcome to my website Foobar Zone
I think that just about anything can happen in life, but the word foobar is a made up word and I like it this link is what Wikipedia has to say about it. what is Foobar?
Now computers are one thing that has help me stay sane and enjoy learning. You do have to keep learning or you brain will just give up the ghost and anything that get you to think has to be a plus. Now I have a Desktop duo-core AMD system home built and Dell Vostro laptop I do love that laptop. The desktop runs Windows XP Home and Windows 7 beta is for test bed system and gaming. The Vostro runs Windows XP Home and Ubuntu 8.10 and I am glad to say Ubuntu is the system I use most of the time now. It is just about ready for the main stream and I hope the suits don't kill it off. Windows 7 beta is a lot better then Vista, what were they on when they shoved that on us. This one operating system has done more to help the uptake of Linux then any other OS on the market place in my humble opinion.
One thing about Linux that can be so confusing for me and you dipping your toe in the Linux pond is the sheer number of Linux distribution of the operating system that are out there. Anyone can design and make a Linux operating system you just have a go if you know what to do or even if you don't. Linux is what is called open sourceopen source that is on the most part free that is you have to agree to Software license but to use just about any software you have to do that and most have a license the thing with Linux is, that part off the license ask you to make it available for anyone to use. If you need to read the fine print have a look at General Public License or this site GNU.org I do think this is a good thing for us all. If I have learnt one thing in life is governments do like to control all things and all, if they could we would never be allowed to think or do anything but what they said, if they had any say in it, that is. Some control is good but we have to keep an eye on the buggers or one day we wake up with no control over any part of our life.
I have been using Linux on and off for a number of years now and Ubuntu 8.10 is the best so far for me as I am not a power user it's more a hobby with just a large knowledge base to get me into trouble but that the best thing about computers the God complex it can give you when things go right just before you fry part or all your computer, how that song go "Ego is not a dirty word". I have installed Ubuntu on my Dell laptop from inside Windows from the Ubuntu 8.10 live DVD so I have the best of both worlds and if I need to I can uninstall it from the windows add remove programs in the control panel. This let me do without buggering about changing partitions on my hard drive, I have found that this is when most people are likely to have a problem this and installing the Grub boot loader for Linux. The program that let you do this is called Wubi Wubi-installer This is one very good bit of software and it's free you don't need to use a CD or DVD you can download the program and after you install it Wubi downloads the Ubuntu OS for you. The OS is around about 650MB to 700MB so if you are on a low few 100MB limit like some Internet Service Providers in Australia are calling ADSL you can get a Disk sent out to you from Ubuntu for free.
My part of the world is Australia nice for the most part, But we have had a few problems with the bush fires in Victoria and the flooding in Queensland in the beginning of 2009 and has been hell for some in this country, But we as a people will get though it, with help from each other and all those who have opened there hearts to help from all over the world.
