[Aliska]

No, I haven't tried ubuntu yet, don't like to mess with new stuff ordinarily unless I must. See my post about the tech coming Sat. Maybe I'll ask his advice what he thinks about it. I've got PS CS2, but not a few of those other things. What do I need Win Ofc for? I've got Word, no patience to master it, and just love Wordpad, use it for tons of stuff, only thing wrong with it is that it doesn't have a spell checker.

BTW FF does have a spell checker which is kind of handy if I post anywhere. I post here in Netscape because that's my mail program, and I like it that way and am able to access usenet the easiest with Nscape. The latest version of FF may have some bugs. One addon I can't remember won't work any more. If I think of it, I'll post.

When I get the imac going, they have an email program, don't know what I'll do about that yet. I kind of like it the way it's set up now but don't want to install Nscape on the imac even though I've got Fusion 2 for my win apps.

[Squantos]

http://www.grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

This is what I use to kill the messenger !......:o)

Works very well !

Also surf this grc site as it is IMO very very good . I have used it for years !

shields up is the best firewall test I know of !

http://www.grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm