I have to vent about this for a second. I'd normally let it go but right now I am really frustrated about this incredibly annoying mass-mailing I was included in that everyone is doing a "reply all" to. I think this whole "It's Not The Millenium, Really!" thing is a load of horse puckey. There could not be a more silly, annoying thing to get your underwear knotted up over. Yeah, I think 2001 is pretty cool. But people aren't all excited because they have some sort of scientific belief that this is truly the new millenium. Most people are not off hilighting Revelations this month or wondering if Chris Carter (anagram for "Christ Racer", ooooooh) is a prophet. They're simply excited about the little 9's turning to 0's and the "1" turning to a "2". For the lack of a better term, they're calling it a new millenium. To get in a tizzy about this is one step removed from bitching about bad spelling on Usenet. If you want to get mad at something, get mad about something that isn't a silly semantics discussion. Guatemala, Afghanistan, Seattle, Sea Turtles, Meat&Dairy Organizations, Creationism, Darwinism, whatever. 1999->2000 has more digits switching than 2000->2001. That's reality. Obligatory Linux: I started playing quake for the first time ever and I'm kinda hooked, and my ultra-pacifist girlfriend is alternating between pleading with me to stop and jumping in on another computer to shoot me. :-) The shareware quake106 is so far my best discovery for free linux game. I think my next project is to figure out how to get netmeeting running again on an internal private pc through my gateway's IP-Masq (doesn't work by default so I gotta open some ports I think). Curt
