Disparity Bit moves to supersized.org

The Disparity Bit has moved from its old location at wordpress.com to a new host. The blog is still in its infancy, so I don’t need to worry about losing readers due to the move.

The trigger for the move was the realization that I couldn’t include an image-link in my sidebar widgets on wordpress.com. I also couldn’t edit the site CSS or theme without moving to a paid package. (The image I had wanted to insert was the Creative Commons license logo for Attribution-ShareAlike. S9y has a builtin plugin for CC license logos; I haven’t checked yet whether I could insert a custom image into a sidebar.)

Of course I’m not entitled to expect wordpress.com to provide any particular feature in their feature, or to provide free hosting at all. But the s9y hosting at supersized.org seems better on several counts; I’ll write more about the differences in a future post, once I’ve had the opportunity to review them from the inside.

Later I’ll post more details about the practical differences between the two hosts. (At the new blog location, that is.)

Xen runs unmodified domUs with Socket AM2 CPUs

Xen can run unmodified DomUs (guest OSs), including Windows or potentially any x86 or x86_64 OS, if your CPU supports Intel VT (aka Vanderpool) or AMD-V (aka Pacifica and SVM). I’ve always known that in theory, but I guess I haven’t been keeping up with the news. It turns out all Athlon64 CPUs for the new Socket AM2 (and apparently some or all Pentium D Preslers) support SVM, and the latest Xen 3.0.2 can use that.