I'm looking to run a home monitoring workstation attached to the internet. 1. The home user would start the application or it could start automatically on boot. 2) or it could run on a users personal PC and with that in mind it would need not be affected by the users activities. It would have control devices attached to it. 3) and when others log on it should keep running. It not a user function but a 'house' function. 4. I'd like to see the application have a window, or terminal, or some icon that could be minimized if needed. So you could see status or enter a display command. I do like the idea of having it shutdown, maybe everyday at midnight and have a cron/scheduler job restart it at 12.05.