http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23477.html This link describes a fellow who downloaded a program to share in a distributed processing effort. To some, this is a punishable offense. Theft of services and all that. What makes this a relevant Linux topic for discussion is the following question: Could loading a dual boot to Linux with a "fully loaded" distro have you loading programs that violate some policy somewhere? Consider the encryption strength issue as an example. Or a FTP file server - that gets compromised? Another small point. The hapless system admin signed a page full of legalese when he started - during the "signing for the employee handbook" ritual most of us go through. In this agreement he states ahead of time, in essence, that he knows that this is bad behavior. When jobs are hard to find, I don't imagine many people refuse to sign these things, but you should at least read this stuff before you sign it. You might be surprised. Perhaps you may have already signed an evil version of one of these things and it could be used to burn ]you someday! If you even care about that sort of thing :-( Mark Browne Walks away, while mumbling to himself. markbrowne at mn.mediaone.net