Rantings now powered entirely by Ubuntu

Well, I took the plunge and wiped my hard drive, followed by a clean install of Ubuntu. Which my machine really needed - after two years of running XP, my 60 GB hard drive was always running 50% full or more, with a clean install of Ubuntu (2.1 GB) plus most of my pictures and music, 13.5%. Not too shabby.

Installation was pretty painless, it did take DBAN (dban.sourceforge.com) about 5 hours to wipe my drive. The review on Cnet said to get a cup of coffee since it takes a while. I recommend starting the process before you go to bed and it will be done in the morning.