Solaris makes you sleepy

I've been away... Thoughts brimming over with things to blog about, but time... there is no time.

I've always been a linux-rules-and-windoze-sux campaigner. I prefer Linux and it's variants. However, an old friend has crept back into the light.. Sun Solaris. Back in the day, I've played with Solaris, on SPARC machines. Rock-solid, stable, fast, and closed, proprietary, expensive. No more. I've downloaded a free copy of Solaris 10 for x86, and have been installing it. Sure, there are some gotchas, and it's still Sun's own weird world. But, you talk about polished, stable, rock-solid, fast! I might be falling in like with Solaris all over again.

That's why I've not been posting. That, and spending some much-needed family time.

Fun's over, so back to the posts.

Here's a brief synopsis of what my brain is gurgling over -- I'll get to these posts. Real Soon Now.

1) Poisonous Pop (Culture). America destroys its own pop "stars" almost as fast as it creates them out of nothing. Why is pop culture so poisonous?

2) Political Suicide. Related to the above, politicians seem also well-suited to keeling over on their proverbial swords (or in the case of New York's "Love Potion #9" governor, his *own* sword).

3) Historical Revisionism run amok. One of the things that burns my buttocks is our cultural repugnance to even consider learning from history -- therefore, we are doomed to stay in a cycle of ignorance and ever-increasing stupidity. Argh!

And, I'll probably post some love-notes about Sun Solaris. What a long strange trip it is...