Here's an analogy; If a soldier goes to war and kills an enemy soldier then the enemy soldier is considered as killed in action, and not considered as murdered. The killing soldier has the protection of the army and of his government. Any accusations about the death of the enemy soldier should not be addressed to the soldier that did the killing.
If the same soldier goes to war and starts to kill civilians then this would be considered murder and the soldier should be held responsible.

So basically it depends on who you are attacking and who's backing you up.

So why don't they disclose which are the 2 incompatible software programs? 

It is my personal opinion that Linux should be a viable option for users and sytem administrators that don't want to migrate to Vista for what ever reason they might have. Linux has become very user friendly lately (particularly Ubuntu), and it can be configured to be very Windows like to help the transition of even die-hard Windows users.

It appears that Microsoft are shooting themselves in the foot with Vista, yet many users will eventually upgrade to it because they are not very aware of the alternatives.

The main problem with Linux being open source is that there is no central money backed marketing of the OS as an alternative. The open source community is relying on word of mouth to spread Linux and the only active marketing is for support contracts of some of the distros such as Ubuntu, Red Hat and Open SUSE.

   - some food for thought for Canonical, Red Hat and Novell.

Congratulations. I wish you and your wife all the best. 

You can order a Knoppix CD or DVD to be sent to you from here.

Have you ever tried Knoppix?

Yet another example of the superiority of the CLI over the GUI.

I used to manage shifts at the NOC of a very large ISP. It was great fun when everything worked fine (and really scary when things didn't). I learned loads and was responsible for monitoring the backbone, the ISP's servers such as mail, DNS and RADIUS servers, and also the hosting/co-location server farm.

I learned so much, specifically about networking and UNIX. I'm sure you'll learn loads too.

Good luck for your CEH.

amade0 your link is broken. What you meant to post is this link; http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/

Have you tried clicking on I cannot access my account?

Firstly I recommend Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Prep by Michael Gregg. You'll even get some change from your $50.

Secondly, it has been my personal experience that the Backtrack betas have been very buggy and unstable in the past. I have not tried the Backtrack 3 beta though. If you're still learning Linux I suggest sticking with a stable release.

Am I the only one to notice that there are no man pages? Is this by design or is it a bug. The file /usr/lib/man.conf says the binary should be found in /usr/local/bin/man yet this has been commented out and there is no man binary found there (or anywhere for that matter).

I'm sure that on the regular BT2 Final iso man pages were enabled. (I confess I haven't used my BT2 Final disk since this VMware version came out). I'll check this tommorow when I have more time.

1. My top spot goes to the starter of this Usenet post, who got fed up with an OS that cost money and didn't work the way he wanted it - so he wrote his own OS.
2. Fyodor.
3. Antirez.

It all depends on what you want to do with it all in the end. Only you know that.

I don't think you can go wrong by studying networking. Even if you are just going to do application programming, one day you will want to write a program that has to interact with another program on another server in a remote location.