I had hoped that upgrades to the system were not done over the weekend... looks like I was wrong! I get up this morning, went the YMCA, then I did an update and there was nothing there. Yippee! I thought. Then I did another update about an hour later and, bummer I thought. Well of course. This is a USERS system, not a corporations (meaning the unlucky many upgrade it on their free time). I was talking with my VOC.Rehab councelor and he was saying that it will be interesting to see if Linux can break the stranglehold that M$ has on the world. While browsing my new book [(c) 1999] I read how M$ is on 90% of the computers in the WORLD. That is a lot of computers. and then this book talks about 'mtools'. Hey. Update finished. Cool, mkisofs is being upgraded (for those of you with a cd burner and debian). Too bad I can't use it! cloop-utils mknbi ntfstools pppconfig vlc and vlc-gtk are being held back..... what do they do and (more importantly) should I download them anyways? Any ways... where was I. Oh yea I talked to my counselor about doing CISCO (as Hans suggested) and he thinks that what I need to do is complete the program at Maricopa Skill Center, which (he says) will prepare me for an entry level job in the NT field. Then, after i START AS AN ENTRY LEVEL LINE RUNNER (or something like that), the company will pay for me to learn their system. Personally, I don't think so but this is a MUCH better prospect than working in the automotive industry (which is what they were paying for me to go to school to be. I just can't see myself as a mechanic. well, I have 1/2 hour left in my download. What else can I talk about??? I guess I'll start another email and write the chapters in my new book down. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blocked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE with every account. http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net