Mythic Beasts

By far the coolest & smartest host provider I’ve seen in a while is Mythic Beasts. They are a host provider in the UK that are pretty much focused on dedicated + colo hosting of Mac Mini’s! Talk about being green about your servers, that’s a great idea if you require a dedicated server but don’t really need the full power of a 1U rack server (mostly lots of memory and RAID).

I’m tempted to switch my hosting over there since my needs are little but I’ve switched hosts enough for work and play… this VPS through TekTonic is technically “Green” so I think I’ll stay right here, unless THEY start offering very cheap mac mini hosting!

An article about Mythic-Beasts:

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/mythic_beasts_02

The hunt for “Legacy Free”

As some of my friends know, a huge pet peeve of mine about computers is legacy ports. So while searching for some information on Linux’s bluetooth support and trying to find out what motherboards/SFF systems have bluetooth support I stumbled upon this post on Slashdot:

As time goes by, more and more ports/connectors add up on my motherboards. When are we going to get ride of ps/2 buses, parallels and serial ports?

So now we would have:

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