Oh that one, yes i can do that ! CD in my car at the moment has Fleetwood Mac's new album ( TUSK ), Aerosmith ( HONKIN ON BOBO ), Eric Clapton ( ME AND MR JOHNSON ), Prince ( MUSICOLOGY ) all mp3 full albums on one cd of course, and the quality is amazing, crystal clear !

For those trying to get into LINUX, try KNOPPIX. You don't have to install it, you can just run it from a bootable cd. If you like it, install SUSE !

Neat isn't it? I've only just got round to enabling it, bit of slack time at work. I'd vote for Knoppix too, it's a neat bit of software, use it at work for fixing broken windows boxes.

Simon

Funny you should mention this, I have a friend in London who is an IT person and he told me that the IT market has returned and that if you have PRINCE 2 qualification you should be able to get something with a good rate.

I have heard likewise too, that the IT sector is on the up, not only in the UK, but round Europe. I know most American firms are taking their businesses to Europe, and some are coming over from Asia too, and with the new EU members, i guess there are more opportunities, and contracts to be had.

My wife will like to go live in Europe at one point, but its not an issue now to move there. I guess she misses our grand parents in Greece or something.

My fave distro atm has to be Debian, the apt-get stuff is great, also the system can wholy be administered from the command line, something some distros have not got anymore.

I would be biased though, we run approx 700 Debian / Linux desktops nationwide. Works great for us, dead easy to push out apps.

Whats the markey like in Canada for Linux people? I am looking at either Alberta or SW Ontario.

The market is good for LINUX here in southwestern ontario, once you can get your foot through the door, then its plain sailing from there.

We run linux on most of our desktops, but there are also a few NT workstations. With your linux knowledge coupled with networking and security, you will do well, if you can get the job.

I must stress though, do your own research, don't take my own word for it, i just work in this business, and know what the situation is at the moment.

once again...do your own search, if you need some contacts and ways to go about things, pm me !

Cool sounds good, I have done networking for years and also security. I have just replaced all out Cisco PIX firewalls with OpenBSD and they works a treat.

We have family in St Thomas and really like the area. Sunny Ontario is right!!

Thanks for the info....

Don't you just love OpenBSD, and the same goes for Openoffice which is free? St Thomas you say? Am going to be cheesy and give it a plug, we have been there a couple of times, and enjoy the "waterworks park", definitely worth a day out for those that haven't been.

Is sunny alright here, but not today

http://www.elgintourist.com/stthomas/

OpenBSD is very cool, pf is so simple yet very powerfull. Have you checked out the new 3.5 release? They have introduced CARP which is basically an open source equivalent of Cisco's VRRP, very cool!!! My boss is very pleased with the new firewalls, open source and saving a wad on propriety firewalls. And its Canadian!

Yeah OpenOffice,org is cool too, we use OpenOffice.org exclusivly at work, all our Linux PC's use it and we are working on the Windows ones now. Its done a good deal to help Linux onto the corprate desktop. One of my mates is on the team translating OpenOffice.org into the Welsh, thats proving v-popular.