yippeeee!!! im bak, and im bad.... i just got my monitor bak from repairs today.... and so no more of that stupid laptop with its stupid compaq tuned windows that crashes even more gracefully and irrepairably.... i couldnot use linux on that laptop cos it had a bloody winmodem.... one that i couldnot work..... well, now im in the deep blue beautiful sea of linux... and i love it.... Neil