Happily it is several years since I last had to install Windows on anything, but this week it has been my lot to have to install Windows 2000 Advanced Server on a machine*. What a contrast it is to installing GNU/Linux. Firstly, to get from an ampty hard disk to a fully patched and configured machine takes hours, and heaven help you if you don't have a broadband connection. Secondly, licences. With GNU/Linux its so easy - the GPL is clearly in the interests of humanity and is familiar enough that I don't need to read it every time I have to agree to it. With Windows, every fix that Windows update downloads seems to have a licence containing a new way for MS to screw you over. A nightmare! Cheers *For those who think I must have taken leave of my senses, I am involved in the release process for the windows binary version of PHP and need a machine to build the installer on. My old NT4 installation has lost the will to live - it does a BSOD immediately after login, and I neither know nor care to know how to fix it. -- Phil Driscoll