is it ready yet I'm trying to set up a virtual testing lab 

Thank you I will look it up.

I tried to install vmware player on my xp pro machine but it crashed windows the error was a driver conflict. I was curious if anyone else had the same thing happen. It installed 95% of the way and crashed so I rebooted and windows said you've encountered a serious error blah blah blah so I tried to get the install going again and it of did not work. any help would greatly appreciated I kind of at a loss on how to fix it because I can't even uninstall it.

thank you everyone for all the advice. I guess I'm just trying to jump the gun. I think the idea of security is fascinating and right now I feel like I'm stuck in a rut. I just don't want to have to wait for a hand up. But thanks again for all of the advice. oh I forgot to say I downloaded backtrack 2 and I'm in the process of setting up a vmware server to use it. I also bought a book of slackware and I will be going tomorrow to get a book on freebsd mainly because I'm tired of windows crashing. I'm going to break it down my school that I'm going to is centriq foss training center and I go for four months when I get out I get my a+,mcp,mcsa,net+. So basically the school is a bunch of boot camps stuck together to form a career track.

thanks for the advice I'm new here and also to the it world. I'm still in school to get my certs,so maybe when  I've got my certs plus  a few years experience then I should come back and ask my question again right?

If i get my mcsa what would be the next cert I should get to break into the security field?
Everyone says security+ but they also say dont waste your money on it. I would like to do something along the lines of pen testing. I know you can't just break into the field either its  more from experience then anything else. If anyone has any help for me or can help me get into the right direction. I would greatly appreciate it.

thank you

If I get my a+, mcp,mcsa that would make me a network admin and in doing so I would use security everday correct sorry I'm rambling my question is if I get my a+ and my mcsa and such and my security+ would that give me enough security experience to be able to take my ceh exam and after that take my cissp eventually. What I want is to get a broad range in security and to possibly get a job on a tiger team. I will need alot of experience in security to make it to this point. I'm probably being confusing and for that I apologize.sorry one last rant if I get my ceh and my cissp what security certs should I get after that to continue with my security path?

0phcrack 1.2.1 and I used activeiso burner and its not the fact that is does not boot because it does its just the bootable cd cannot extract the hashes from the sam it just gives me an error

Hi I've downloaded the live-cd of 0phcrack and booted from it and I get to the x windows screen and it says found one partition with hashes but then it can't view it and I went on to the forum for 0phcrack and they said it was a bug and was going to be fixed with next version but I downloaded the correct version and its still does not work from the iso. If anyone has any idea of  this or how to fix it I would love the help thanks

I'm a aspiring network admin and security expert hoping to someday mange to reach my cissp but as of right now I have just my A+ and will be getting my MCP and my mcsa. I just wanted to say hello this sounds like a good sight I will hopefully learn alot.

Thank You