it would appear that you have made the basic
assumption that democracy will still exist
in the USA after another 4 years of George W.
Granted, however, that there is a very good
chance that the USA will be in one war or
another in 2008. The question only is in
regard to which country that will be: Iraq,
Iran, Syria, North Korea, or Venezuela (oil).
This does present an opportunity to establish
an on-line wager/pool regarding exactly which
country the USA will be at war with.
The last version of Adobe Photoshop that I installed on an SGI IRIX workstation was v4.3.
Adobe abandoned all the UNIX platforms in favor of WinNT and the MacIntosh. Market share drives commercial software development. The move by Apple to a FreeBSD/Darwin based operating system (OS X) that also runs X11 might have sparked some new interest by Adobe. But, Apple's embrace of F/OSS in the inclusion of GNU/GCC and other BSD tools must have Adobe looking over their shoulder at GIMP as a totally free competitor. As GIMP keeps getting better and better, Adobe might be seeing their market share on the MacIntosh platform decline. Apple's own worthy software that is competing with Adobe is also having its effect.
I wouldn't read altogether too much into Adobe's advertisement of two software positions related to GNU/Linux -- that only means that they are looking at possible ways to increase their market share. Microsoft's long delayed release of Longhorn and their new filesystem must be giving many commercial software vendors a reason to explore other markets.
since even with multiple over-writes to every location on the disk, some data can be read.
The better method is simple and more effective:
(1) remove HDD from chassis (2) disconnect all cables (3) remove cover & PWB from HDD (4) remove & separate HDD platters (5) put on goggles or other eye protection (6) put on MSA-approved dust mask (7) put on heavy duty work gloves (8) insert 60 grit sandpaper in belt sander (9) lock belt sander into the on position (10) grind each platter surface until you
only see bare metal.
in five easy steps:
(1) shell out $4 Billion USD for "new & improved"
eVoting machines (with no paper audit trail)
(2) buy off, or cook the figures on polling data
for the last 3 months of the campaign --
raise public expectations for your result
(3) disenfranchise racial minorities in key
states, and employ (VOA-RNC) registrar "aids"
in other states to foil the registrations
of your political opposition party
(4) on election day, create just enough problems
with the eVoting machines to distract the
public's attention from the real crime scene,
hacking the backend vote "accumulators"
(5) PROFIT! (Enron, Carlyle Group, Halliburton,
ChevronTexaco, KBR, & Saudi slush fund)
Except that it seems that I can no longer
find work in the Metro DC area as a unix
systems administrator/software engineer
without having a TS/PolySCI security
clearance. Of course, the "Catch-22"
syndrome kicks in for this new requirement,
because it now takes 18 - 24 months to get
such a security clearance, and no government
contractor will hire someone for that long
(including perhaps $25K for the investigation)
and pay for sweeping floors until the clearance
comes through. If you have such a clearance,
especially a transferable one, its worth its
weight in gold, and if you don't have one,
then you are SOL.
(IRIX / Solaris / BSD / OS X / Linux / HP-UX)
So sorry if there is some bitterness that has
seeped into this note, but YES, it has also
affected how I voted...
I'm dreaming of a big fat 300 GB SSD (Solid State Disk). On power-up, a disk image would be transferred from a sloooow rotating media to this SSD for the OS and applications. A generously sized battery backup would preserve data in case of power interruption, in order to gracefully backup the new disk image back to a hard disk. Even better still, a RAID-10 array of these SSDs and a RAID-10 HD array for backup.
Of course, that corrupts the very definition of RAID as a "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks". Okay, so I am dreaming.
A RAID-10 array of these new Maxtor 10K RPM 300 GB disks on a smart (and battery-backed) RAID controller would really rock...
has determined that George W. Bush has
won, with 2% of the East Coast results
tabulated (Bush - 56%// Kerry - 49%).
George W. Bush heartily thanks his allies
at Diebold for their assistance in bringing
these latest poll figures.
and when the PRC does win that race, Mars will be called the "Red Planet" for more reasons than just the color.
And when they have fully populated Mars, there will be a new Martian invasion of Earth! (As everyone knows, history does follow in the footsteps of science fiction.)
Excepting that their results only apply for the states and voting districts that have been dumb enough (or sly like a fox in the henhouse) to buy and use their equipment.
Jeb Bush will pull through for brother George, just like in 2000, so Florida is not really in play as a "battleground" state. And Diebold's CEO has already promised to deliver Ohio to Bush, so that state is a given. How many other states are using Diebold equipment? Between Diebold and and the VOA-RNC registration fiasco, exactly how many states are still in play?
George W. Bush spent all of his 20's and 30's burning up brain cells with alcohol and cocaine. Picture a man burdeoned with self-induced brain damage, AADD, and early onset of alzheimers: that is the man AKA George W. Bush. (Why do you think he risked censure and/or court martial over failure to keep his medical exam appointments with his flight surgeon?)
Be gentle, but be firm (like with a 6 year old). Spank his sorry behind back to Crawford, TX, in tomorrow's national election.
Some up-and-coming third world country's version of Reagan's "Brilliant Pebbles" weapon (like a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with "00", but in space.)
Somehow, I think a "mesh network" of low tech satellites sporting shotguns in space will win out over a hi tech MASER weapon. They could actually be small enough to get lost in a lot of the other space "junk" up there.
You are obviously not a dedicated neo-con Bush supporter. You don't really expect all those illegal aliens voting to pick up the slack for you, do you? Slacker!
I already voted, via absentee ballot. I took John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge and George Tenet and George W. Bush at their word when they said "It isn't a matter of IF terrorists will strike in the USA again, it's only a matter of WHEN." Isn't that supposed to be the "October surprise" that W. promised us? Isn't that why the FEC floated a trial balloon in the press about postponing the November elections? You mean to tell me that that WASN'T a covert campaign promise to the neo-con GOP grassroots? Oh my God! W has fooled me again!
that neither Daryl McBride or SCO Group will be buying DoubleClick. Somehow, I think that they will get bought by a front company for the CIA or NSA or DHS, rather than any legitimate commercial entity like Microsoft or Google.
The only "cookies" and "spyware" that will not be illegal is that used by the government to keep an eye on the people. Expect the purchase to go through after Bush "wins" again, along with the latest USA Patriot Act II.
Bush, as the "winner" of the 2000 election, has used every opportunity to propagandise for his position in invading Iraq. This is a major source of confusion to the USA public, because W's reason for war keeps changing (according to the real events on Iraqi soil.) It is said that history is written by the victors, not the losers. That old saw was pre-internet, and past Bush pronouncments have come back, in time, to haunt him.
"Major combat operations are over".
To date, more that 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a direct result of George W. Bush's rash rush to war. USA troops killed are now 1,100 plus, with 5 time that many seriously wounded. The Iraqi civilian infrastructure was nominally operating at 80% before the war (due to UN sanctions), but is now at less than 60%. The primary tasks of the US troops was the destruction of the Iraqi army, and the seizure of Iraq's oil fields & terminals. The composition and size of the Coalition Force was tailored to those tasks alone, not for bringing peace and stability and democracy to the Iraqi people. That is also why this Bush/Cheney oil war will not succeed, and why a new political leadership is needed in the USA. Iraq is not similar to Vietnam, it is just exactly like Vietnam. The correct description of the Iraq war: QUAGMIRE. Bush has destroyed whatever credibility and American unity that he garnered after 9-11, and is losing both the war on terror and the Iraq war at the same time, and from the same cause: totally fscking insane mismanagement of the strategy, tactics, goals, and exit of this war. Iraq has become the locus of terror in the Middle East. The vast stores of Iraqi conventional weapons have been negligently abandoned to the insurgents. US forces were not tasked with control and security of Iraq's nuclear weapons research facilities, which were prompty looted. If the true goals of Bush's invasion of Iraq were to secure any/all WMD, it doesn't show up in the execution of this war. One can only draw the conclusion that this was not his real goal there -- actions speak loader than words, and Bush's words are pure kaka.
Perhaps not the first 20 layer PCB, but perhaps the first one NOT to use wirewrap (reflecting on a distant past with DEC VAX backplanes and boards).
One of an earlier generation of prototype PWBs was to route out thin wires and epoxy over for the next layer -- expensive way to get that 9 layer board, but great for 1 ofs.
Unfortunately (or fortunate for Epson), the inkjet printer industry's use of "smart" ink cartridges (and the DMCA) will kill off any homebrew adaptaion of this technology. I have a PostScript HP inkjet printer that I would gladly sacrifice for some "silver" ink PCB artwork...
This Merkey person is obviously one of Microsoft's less sharp knives in the drawer. But a useful tool, nonetheless. Between SCO's McBride and this idiot savant, the Microsoft juggernaut's preferred tactic of assimilation of competition (by destroying the Linux shield of GPL) has yet again been revealed.
Please tell me again how it is that the DoJ did not find just cause to carve Microsoft up into little pieces? It just couldn't have anything to do with Gates/Ballmer new appreciation for the mother's milk of politics, and how to spread that "love" around the neo-con GOP.
but it is also a ridiculous means of acertaining the outcome of an election. Jeb Bush guaranteed W would win Florida in 2000 (and now again in 2004). Diebold's CEO has guaranteed that W will win Ohio in 2004. Between these assertions, and the VOA-RNC voter registration fiascos that have been playing out in multiple states, I would put my money on a Bush "win" (by any means necessary). It isn't for nothing that the TX GOP (and Hassert) made a complete mockery of redistricting.
I suspect, however, that a Bush "win" will have some serious political and legal blowback, not unlike RM Nixon's troubles. I will look forward to seeing the whole GOP neo-con band of thugs tried before the ICC for war crimes, and tried in the USA for derelection of duty and treason.
The 2004 election will not be over until the last bullet isi recounted ad nauseum. I, for one, welcome our new UN election monitor overlords.
Well, I could give you a quite long list, but it would be considered OT. Instead, consider that DHS settled upon WinXP and Server 2K3 for their IT infrastructure. Also consider that DHS has NOT been able to retain an IT security officer for HQ.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. The data that DHS has on about 50% of the US population (and about 25% of the EU population) cannot be considered secure. 'Nuff said?
Isn't that peculiar. I worked for NASA (as a contractor) for nearly five years, and the only Mac OS X that I saw was a manager's G.I. laptop (as a personal preference). Everything else was NT4 workstations migrating to 2K (and staying well away from XP). The back-end servers were all 2K or 2K3, not *nix, let alone linux. The raw telemetry and spacecraft (HST) data were all processed on a mix of *nix platforms -- HP-UX, SGI, and SUN. The contractor was scrambling to migrate these to SUN, and scrap the (VME-bus) HP-UX and the SGI's. One of the reasons I left (besides end of contract) was the prospect of working nearly exclusively on Micro$oft boxes.
I guess it really depends upon which NASA project you're on as to what the IT "pointy heads" select for their platform of choice.
Which is also why Michael Moore's epic documentary film "Fahrenheit 9-11" was rated "R" (or "Restricted" == 17 or older). Can't have youngsters learning to question authority before they have been properly programmed as witless consumers (of both goods & propaganda).
Set up a new TLD called . Organizations desiring such a TLD would not pay an annual fee, but instead pay $00.05/Connection/Mbyte/Minute.
Result: Total funding of SS and Medicare benefits through 2178 AD. Ability to provide universal health care to every citizen. Total Bush Iraq War and Reconstruction funding paid for. Revised the tax code to 10% flat income tax.
SGI management made some rather bad business decisions (besides WinTel boxen). They bought high and sold low on: (1) MIPS processor fab, (2) Cray Reasearch. They followed up more "cost-cutting" with the adoption of the Intel Itanium, which sucked the spirit out of the company.
They managed to make some of the best servers and workstations around, as well as a unix (IRIX) that has a well integrated GUI. The difference between sitting in front of an SGI and a SUN workstation were like day and night. SUN's move from CDE to Gnome for their GUI has not been a huge success.
SUN's adoption of the AMD Opteron processor does offer some advantages for them -- but only in the small (read "commodity") server market. I am more excited about SUN's roll-out of Solaris 10.
it would appear that you have made the basic assumption that democracy will still exist in the USA after another 4 years of George W. Granted, however, that there is a very good chance that the USA will be in one war or another in 2008. The question only is in regard to which country that will be: Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or Venezuela (oil). This does present an opportunity to establish an on-line wager/pool regarding exactly which country the USA will be at war with.
Would that have been a 6 cell fully static
CMOS memory bit?
Your teacher must have been a sadist!
The last version of Adobe Photoshop that I
installed on an SGI IRIX workstation was v4.3.
Adobe abandoned all the UNIX platforms in
favor of WinNT and the MacIntosh. Market
share drives commercial software development.
The move by Apple to a FreeBSD/Darwin based
operating system (OS X) that also runs X11
might have sparked some new interest by Adobe.
But, Apple's embrace of F/OSS in the inclusion
of GNU/GCC and other BSD tools must have Adobe
looking over their shoulder at GIMP as a totally
free competitor. As GIMP keeps getting better
and better, Adobe might be seeing their market
share on the MacIntosh platform decline. Apple's
own worthy software that is competing with Adobe
is also having its effect.
I wouldn't read altogether too much into Adobe's
advertisement of two software positions related
to GNU/Linux -- that only means that they are
looking at possible ways to increase their
market share. Microsoft's long delayed release
of Longhorn and their new filesystem must be
giving many commercial software vendors a reason
to explore other markets.
since even with multiple over-writes to every
location on the disk, some data can be read.
The better method is simple and more effective:
(1) remove HDD from chassis
(2) disconnect all cables
(3) remove cover & PWB from HDD
(4) remove & separate HDD platters
(5) put on goggles or other eye protection
(6) put on MSA-approved dust mask
(7) put on heavy duty work gloves
(8) insert 60 grit sandpaper in belt sander
(9) lock belt sander into the on position
(10) grind each platter surface until you
only see bare metal.
in five easy steps: (1) shell out $4 Billion USD for "new & improved" eVoting machines (with no paper audit trail) (2) buy off, or cook the figures on polling data for the last 3 months of the campaign -- raise public expectations for your result (3) disenfranchise racial minorities in key states, and employ (VOA-RNC) registrar "aids" in other states to foil the registrations of your political opposition party (4) on election day, create just enough problems with the eVoting machines to distract the public's attention from the real crime scene, hacking the backend vote "accumulators" (5) PROFIT! (Enron, Carlyle Group, Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, KBR, & Saudi slush fund)
Except that it seems that I can no longer find work in the Metro DC area as a unix systems administrator/software engineer without having a TS/PolySCI security clearance. Of course, the "Catch-22" syndrome kicks in for this new requirement, because it now takes 18 - 24 months to get such a security clearance, and no government contractor will hire someone for that long (including perhaps $25K for the investigation) and pay for sweeping floors until the clearance comes through. If you have such a clearance, especially a transferable one, its worth its weight in gold, and if you don't have one, then you are SOL. (IRIX / Solaris / BSD / OS X / Linux / HP-UX) So sorry if there is some bitterness that has seeped into this note, but YES, it has also affected how I voted ...
I'm dreaming of a big fat 300 GB SSD (Solid
...
State Disk). On power-up, a disk image would
be transferred from a sloooow rotating media
to this SSD for the OS and applications. A
generously sized battery backup would preserve
data in case of power interruption, in order to
gracefully backup the new disk image back to a
hard disk. Even better still, a RAID-10 array
of these SSDs and a RAID-10 HD array for backup.
Of course, that corrupts the very definition
of RAID as a "Redundant Array of Inexpensive
Disks". Okay, so I am dreaming.
A RAID-10 array of these new Maxtor 10K RPM
300 GB disks on a smart (and battery-backed)
RAID controller would really rock
the answer is: stay completely disconnected
from the Internet!
How can that sentence possibly be finessed
into something as big as a book?
has determined that George W. Bush has won, with 2% of the East Coast results tabulated (Bush - 56% // Kerry - 49%).
George W. Bush heartily thanks his allies
at Diebold for their assistance in bringing
these latest poll figures.
and when the PRC does win that race,
Mars will be called the "Red Planet"
for more reasons than just the color.
And when they have fully populated Mars,
there will be a new Martian invasion of
Earth! (As everyone knows, history does
follow in the footsteps of science fiction.)
Excepting that their results only apply for the
states and voting districts that have been dumb
enough (or sly like a fox in the henhouse) to
buy and use their equipment.
Jeb Bush will pull through for brother George,
just like in 2000, so Florida is not really in
play as a "battleground" state. And Diebold's
CEO has already promised to deliver Ohio to
Bush, so that state is a given. How many other
states are using Diebold equipment? Between
Diebold and and the VOA-RNC registration fiasco,
exactly how many states are still in play?
another newer tool that didn't make it
into the 1st edition of the book is:
"Google Desktop Search". Doh!
You insensitive clod!
George W. Bush spent all of his 20's and
30's burning up brain cells with alcohol
and cocaine. Picture a man burdeoned with
self-induced brain damage, AADD, and early
onset of alzheimers: that is the man AKA
George W. Bush. (Why do you think he risked
censure and/or court martial over failure to
keep his medical exam appointments with his
flight surgeon?)
Be gentle, but be firm (like with a 6 year old).
Spank his sorry behind back to Crawford, TX, in
tomorrow's national election.
Some up-and-coming third world country's
version of Reagan's "Brilliant Pebbles"
weapon (like a 12 gauge shotgun loaded
with "00", but in space.)
Somehow, I think a "mesh network" of low
tech satellites sporting shotguns in space
will win out over a hi tech MASER weapon.
They could actually be small enough to get
lost in a lot of the other space "junk" up
there.
You are obviously not a dedicated
neo-con Bush supporter. You don't
really expect all those illegal
aliens voting to pick up the slack
for you, do you?
Slacker!
I already voted, via absentee ballot.
I took John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge
and George Tenet and George W. Bush
at their word when they said "It isn't
a matter of IF terrorists will strike
in the USA again, it's only a matter
of WHEN." Isn't that supposed to be
the "October surprise" that W. promised
us? Isn't that why the FEC floated a
trial balloon in the press about postponing
the November elections? You mean to tell
me that that WASN'T a covert campaign
promise to the neo-con GOP grassroots?
Oh my God! W has fooled me again!
that neither Daryl McBride or SCO Group
will be buying DoubleClick. Somehow, I
think that they will get bought by a
front company for the CIA or NSA or DHS,
rather than any legitimate commercial
entity like Microsoft or Google.
The only "cookies" and "spyware" that
will not be illegal is that used by the
government to keep an eye on the people.
Expect the purchase to go through after
Bush "wins" again, along with the latest
USA Patriot Act II.
Bush, as the "winner" of the 2000 election,
has used every opportunity to propagandise
for his position in invading Iraq. This
is a major source of confusion to the USA
public, because W's reason for war keeps
changing (according to the real events on
Iraqi soil.) It is said that history is
written by the victors, not the losers.
That old saw was pre-internet, and past
Bush pronouncments have come back, in time,
to haunt him.
"Major combat operations are over".
To date, more that 100,000 Iraqi civilians
have died as a direct result of George W.
Bush's rash rush to war. USA troops killed
are now 1,100 plus, with 5 time that many
seriously wounded. The Iraqi civilian
infrastructure was nominally operating at
80% before the war (due to UN sanctions),
but is now at less than 60%. The primary
tasks of the US troops was the destruction
of the Iraqi army, and the seizure of Iraq's
oil fields & terminals. The composition and
size of the Coalition Force was tailored to
those tasks alone, not for bringing peace and
stability and democracy to the Iraqi people.
That is also why this Bush/Cheney oil war will
not succeed, and why a new political leadership
is needed in the USA. Iraq is not similar to
Vietnam, it is just exactly like Vietnam. The
correct description of the Iraq war: QUAGMIRE.
Bush has destroyed whatever credibility and
American unity that he garnered after 9-11,
and is losing both the war on terror and the
Iraq war at the same time, and from the same
cause: totally fscking insane mismanagement
of the strategy, tactics, goals, and exit of
this war. Iraq has become the locus of terror
in the Middle East. The vast stores of Iraqi
conventional weapons have been negligently
abandoned to the insurgents. US forces were
not tasked with control and security of Iraq's
nuclear weapons research facilities, which were
prompty looted. If the true goals of Bush's
invasion of Iraq were to secure any/all WMD,
it doesn't show up in the execution of this war.
One can only draw the conclusion that this was
not his real goal there -- actions speak loader
than words, and Bush's words are pure kaka.
Perhaps not the first 20 layer PCB,
...
but perhaps the first one NOT to use
wirewrap (reflecting on a distant past
with DEC VAX backplanes and boards).
One of an earlier generation of prototype
PWBs was to route out thin wires and epoxy
over for the next layer -- expensive way to
get that 9 layer board, but great for 1 ofs.
Unfortunately (or fortunate for Epson), the
inkjet printer industry's use of "smart"
ink cartridges (and the DMCA) will kill off
any homebrew adaptaion of this technology.
I have a PostScript HP inkjet printer that
I would gladly sacrifice for some "silver"
ink PCB artwork
Exactly so.
This Merkey person is obviously one of
Microsoft's less sharp knives in the
drawer. But a useful tool, nonetheless.
Between SCO's McBride and this idiot
savant, the Microsoft juggernaut's preferred
tactic of assimilation of competition (by
destroying the Linux shield of GPL) has
yet again been revealed.
Please tell me again how it is that the
DoJ did not find just cause to carve
Microsoft up into little pieces? It
just couldn't have anything to do with
Gates/Ballmer new appreciation for the
mother's milk of politics, and how to
spread that "love" around the neo-con GOP.
but it is also a ridiculous means of
acertaining the outcome of an election.
Jeb Bush guaranteed W would win Florida
in 2000 (and now again in 2004). Diebold's
CEO has guaranteed that W will win Ohio
in 2004. Between these assertions, and
the VOA-RNC voter registration fiascos
that have been playing out in multiple
states, I would put my money on a Bush
"win" (by any means necessary). It isn't
for nothing that the TX GOP (and Hassert)
made a complete mockery of redistricting.
I suspect, however, that a Bush "win" will
have some serious political and legal
blowback, not unlike RM Nixon's troubles.
I will look forward to seeing the whole
GOP neo-con band of thugs tried before
the ICC for war crimes, and tried in the
USA for derelection of duty and treason.
The 2004 election will not be over until
the last bullet isi recounted ad nauseum.
I, for one, welcome our new UN election
monitor overlords.
Well, I could give you a quite long list,
but it would be considered OT. Instead,
consider that DHS settled upon WinXP and
Server 2K3 for their IT infrastructure.
Also consider that DHS has NOT been able
to retain an IT security officer for HQ.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. The data that
DHS has on about 50% of the US population
(and about 25% of the EU population) cannot
be considered secure. 'Nuff said?
Isn't that peculiar. I worked for NASA (as a
contractor) for nearly five years, and the only
Mac OS X that I saw was a manager's G.I. laptop
(as a personal preference). Everything else
was NT4 workstations migrating to 2K (and
staying well away from XP). The back-end
servers were all 2K or 2K3, not *nix, let
alone linux. The raw telemetry and spacecraft
(HST) data were all processed on a mix of *nix
platforms -- HP-UX, SGI, and SUN. The contractor
was scrambling to migrate these to SUN, and scrap
the (VME-bus) HP-UX and the SGI's. One of the
reasons I left (besides end of contract) was
the prospect of working nearly exclusively on
Micro$oft boxes.
I guess it really depends upon which NASA project
you're on as to what the IT "pointy heads" select
for their platform of choice.
Which is also why Michael Moore's epic
documentary film "Fahrenheit 9-11" was
rated "R" (or "Restricted" == 17 or older).
Can't have youngsters learning to question
authority before they have been properly
programmed as witless consumers (of both
goods & propaganda).
Set up a new TLD called . Organizations
desiring such a TLD would not pay an annual fee,
but instead pay $00.05/Connection/Mbyte/Minute.
Result:
Total funding of SS and Medicare benefits through
2178 AD. Ability to provide universal health
care to every citizen. Total Bush Iraq War and
Reconstruction funding paid for. Revised the
tax code to 10% flat income tax.
SGI management made some rather bad business
decisions (besides WinTel boxen). They
bought high and sold low on:
(1) MIPS processor fab,
(2) Cray Reasearch.
They followed up more "cost-cutting" with
the adoption of the Intel Itanium, which
sucked the spirit out of the company.
They managed to make some of the best
servers and workstations around, as well
as a unix (IRIX) that has a well integrated
GUI. The difference between sitting in front
of an SGI and a SUN workstation were like
day and night. SUN's move from CDE to
Gnome for their GUI has not been a huge
success.
SUN's adoption of the AMD Opteron processor
does offer some advantages for them -- but
only in the small (read "commodity") server
market. I am more excited about SUN's roll-out
of Solaris 10.