The present invention relates to a new process for the preparation of a compound of the following formula :. Further described are low surface energy substrates, such as microporous polytetrafluoroethylene, coated with such an aqueous solution so as to impart a change in at least one surface characteristic compared to the surface characteristics of the uncoated low surface energy substrate. Further, a request is received from a user to view which hardware components of the computer system are assigned to a selected logical partition of the computer system.