By a persistent VNC session, I mean a session that you can connect yourVNC viewer to, do stuff, disconnect from, and then later come back toconnect to it again. This makes it the graphical equivalent of screen , at least for me.

(Much like screen , it also gives you a certain amount of immunityagainst network and workstation stability problems for critical tasksthat you don't want interrupted. More and more, systems have to bemanaged graphically instead of through text interfaces, which means that

In succinct form:

The problem with Solaris 10 x86's boot process is not so much that itis trying to pretend that it has OpenBoot, the problem is that it isdoing such a clumsy and awkward job of faking it.

I will admit that I am not a fan of the Solaris 10 x86 boot process. Iunderstand why it is trying very hard to pretend that it is just likeSPARC hardware with OpenBoot, and I can even sympathize with Sun'smotivations for

Here is something that has struck me recently: virtualization andabstraction cannot eliminate security concerns, they can only move themfrom one place to another . In other words, virtualization by itselfdoesn't do anything to prevent security bugs; it just means that theyhappen in a different place.

(By virtualization I mean more than hardware and OS virtualization, Ialso include things like the JVM.)

The advantage of virtualization is that it moves the problem inwards,towards the center of the security onion, where fewer people