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SIte moved to Rimu Hosting

Bryght is shutting down hosting, so I moved to Rimu Hosting. I already run the Bootup Labs site there, and have recommended it to a number of other people. Do I have more to say about Bryght? Not right now, although it feels like I've got a lot of stories tucked away that need to get told at some point.

I've got a Miro VPS 2 - $30 / month, 400MB memory, 4GB of storage. I never get a control panel - it's running Webmin on CentOS, and I asked for the newest version of PHP, plus Apache and MySQL set to run at startup.

It's actually been a pleasure to "move in" to a new server. The old system had been running for a long time, and various failed experiments at different upgrades -- most around PHP and accelerator versions. Also various different test installs of a variety of sites.

Windows on a Mac - Apple releases Boot Camp beta

I thought that Apple was going to do a big product release of *some* kind on April 1st, their 30th anniversary as a company. But, obviously, releasing Boot Camp, software that lets you easily install Windows XP on your Intel-based Mac, would really have been regarded as a practical joke, so they waited until today.Dual-booting is really not that interesting. You don't really share files, and you can't switch back and forth without restarting the system and rebooting completely. I've been speculating if Apple will actually support Xen, an open source virtualization technology that lets you run multiple environments simultaneously. Perhaps Boot Camp is just a start -- Apple has already said that it will be included as part of Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, so perhaps that is when Xen support will be rolled into the base of the operating system.I'll be looking for mentions of Xen as people dig into the details of Boot Camp over the next couple of days.