"You run a ping sweep, find some alive hosts through ICMP, sort them out, hit port scanning, fingerprint in stealth mode, find the running OS, Nessus it or break it with Denial of Service; Zombie more machines and Distribute the DoS for a server..bombard it with blind packets, shut the server down...voila!! Do you call yourself a hacker?" Boy, was that a spinning flow!! I already found myself flying; got a hint that I was trusted among lucid vigilants, and I'd bet that's got to be the reason TJ poured all that over me. Had I not been at least a little Proximal to meeting the layer of their expectation, they wouldn't bother asking me all that...or, I don't know, I have been deceived by my instinct quite a few times!! "Absolutely Not! It's an art; and unless you know the inside outs of it, you are a lamer.." I gently scratched my chin and replied.I could feel the blood flow right from head to my toes, and backward -- probably because my level of comfort skyrocketed along with my assumptions, and that satisfaction was fostering a gesture. Giving myself a short pause, I attempted to get a deeper grasp of the cold conditioned breeze blowing right over me;in the meantime PJ demanded that I prove my knowledge of seven OSI layers and the major protocols associated with each of them. I started drawing boxes and clouds with non-photoshop CS2 trained hand -- all of a sudden TJ stood and headed out. Thought I was answering fine..! Didn't realize I brought in some boring,irrelevant,innocous vibe there. Both PJ and Nomad looked away from me to traceroute TJ's way, I halted.. To be Continued ... Thank you everyone (SITARA,vantage point,lootekukur,flip_flop, and the ones I thanked earlier) for your inestimable encouragement. SITARA: I handed myself a book called 'ABCs of TCP/IP few years ago, and that's when I began my 'tech journey' of life. Now that after years of clinging and flinging on it, I guess I have mastered that part; but the art of writing mocks at me, throws me right on the lap of ABCs stage. I'd like to crawl through it, but I get backed up leaving myself an admirer of that craft, can't yet foresee the jubilance and triumphance of being a succesful writer. But your pep up undoubtedly emboldened my attempt: Thank You! looteKukur: Yes you are right, we did talk once! That was a while ago, and I still remember.. you contemplated my personality with some questions and concluded that I was a 'good man' or something of that sort. We got along well~~! flip_flop and Vantage Point: It's an hour long event. Should I keep on prolonging? ~@~