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
If it weren’t for Exchange, I would be using Ubuntu 100% of the time. At first, I thought I found a solution in Evolution but it seems their Exchange interface is a bit buggy. Other than that, it’s been smooth sailing again using *nix as a desktop. It’s been quite a while but nowadays there seems to be a GUI interface for nearly everything.
The coolest thing I’ve been fooling with all week, when I’ve actually had time, is Nagios. I’m not sure how it slipped thru the cracks but it’s definitely the most flexible monitoring solution out there, perfect cost too!
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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So far so good. This is basically the half way point of this short-holiday week and since work is crazy busy I haven’t been able to post about how it goes.
My test system is as follows:
AMD 3200XP
768MB DDR1 Memory
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