well, for a practice/ get it up and running/ see how to make it work thing i've got a couple 7 segment displays driven by BCD inputs and i was gonna make a simple program to show the current CPU usage/unread mail/ram usage or something like that through those displays. i've got the displays all wired up (yay digital class) and they work right when i manually put in a binary number to them, but i need to make the parallel port put the voltage out. it doesnt have to be .net java or another simple language would be fine, i just want to find some way to interface with it. (i'll probably mess around with serial later, but parallel for starters)