Ok thanks, I guess my introductory post was a little misleading. I don't want to be a "1337 hax0r" or anything like that, I'm just interested in learning as much as possible and hopefully getting a decent job doing what I love. I've realised I was trying to learn too much too quickly so I'm going to take it a little bit slower from now on. I should have my little network up in the next 2 weeks and am going to play around with linux and learn a little bit of programming. I'm likely to be asking you all quite a few questions but I'll not forget google. I'm unemployed at the moment so I have quite a bit of free time to spend learning and certainly wont be wasting it.