Ubuntu time

A few months ago I got talking to a guy on a football (soccer) message board I frequent who wouldn't shut up about this thing called "Ubuntu". I really knew next to nothing about it, but this guy insisted it was the answer to a problem I was having with my missus' laptop - namely how slow it ran under Vista. So I bit the bullet and installed the Ubuntu operating system. Low and behold it worked and Ubuntu had another fan in internet nerd-ville.

I set to installing Ubuntu onto my MAME computer which took a little longer than expected. Being an old computer it wouldn't boot from the USB stick I had put the Ubuntu installer on. One burnt installer CD later and we had Ubuntu up and running.