sw> "Hey are any of you members around the age of 18?" When I turned 18 it was eight years before the ideas that became Unix came out of a talk session between Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. It was still eight and a half years before second 0 in the so-called Unix era as documented in ctime(3). Bill Gates was still five years old. Obviouly some of us just can't let this thread go. Sean, if you haven't been scared off by all the mean and/or silly people on this group and are still reading, please trust that (a) you are abundantly welcome to participate in PLUG, where there are also people of wisdom and experience who are willing to share what they know; (b) you may actually learn more about Linux (if that's what you're interested in, as contrasted with "technology" in general as you stated in your inquiry) by being around people who have been working with it and its predecessors daily for many years than from zealously interested but less experienced individuals; (c) there are legions of young people interested in technology most everywhere that I know about, and they aren't hard to find. But there are more of them in China and India, where students aren't as lazy as they are in the US. -- Lynn David Newton MontaVista Software, Inc. 2141 E. Broadway Road, Suite 108 Tempe, AZ 85282 Phone: 480-517-5047 Email: lnewton@mvista.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss