Thanks for that guys.
so you also have the same job situation with degrees over there. Experience is often more important than a degree over here, because a degree is commonplace. For people with a degree and no experience there like screwed sometimes.
I thought i was alone with startx ( i like it because i know where i am, if xwindows crashes or something goes wrong , its easier to go back into the console ) . i also keep my personal settings in .zshrc ,
btw firefox 2.0 has restore last session on by default, i find it really usefull if i got a load of tabs open and i don;t have time to bookmark them because i gotta do something.
it can be turned of from edit > preferences.
Were you talking about katapult on kde,? its a neat little app.