http://www.4adodge.com/autoshow/news/hemi.html http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/magazine/issue05/4812/ If this makes it to production, I might have to give up on the Beowulf Buick idea. Imagine the fun: Sinck slips somewhat tardily into the office parking lot and waits for the wireless LAN connection to light up.... "Good, let's turn on the quickcam and see if the boss is around...." "No, the coast is clear, guess it's time to be there." "WAIT! What's Mark doing in my cube! Arrggh, damn lag! activate secondary link please Aha! I wondered where my cookies were going. The feind! snapshot please; print snapshot to office please; ssh officehost while (1) playsound klaxon.au please. Time to go confront him. logout please" Sinck parks and retrieves his trusty mega-lart from under the seat and goes to collect evidence and adjust some thinking. .... The trailing please is from a child's scifi story about failed mutineers who were almost clever enough. David