Hai.. Iam coming b4 u this time with a diffrent problem.. Iam verry much involved in linux for quite sometime now.. did an rhce and learning more.. I have to do a college project here for my Btech degree (eq to BS). Guys here do the usual stuff.. I just wanna do somethin thats gonna help me in my future with linux.. All suggestions welcome ...I didnt get any creative or great ideas yet .. Im thinkin it out.. If some of u can input something it would be very helpfull... probably in the networking domain.. (+ databases ) And its my mini project.. have only 45 to 50 days.. (main project is next year..) Iam ok with c/c++ and Qt. Then perl s fine as well.. (stepping into python now..) Thanking u in anticipation, ---------------------------------- Harikumar Krishnan 'The Future Is Open'