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Archive for August, 2006
The eXcito bubba home server
Aug 21st
A Swedish company called eXcito have just launched a low cost, mini home server called the bubba. It’s a Debian Linux server, running file, email and web services, with everything pre-installed, configured with a web browser, all in a tiny case. Today I do exactly the same with a P3, 512MB RAM, a SCSI RAID array and a rather large power supply. The bubba would do it all and only consume < 4 watts! Now if only it had built in Wi-Fi (my PCs are all over the house, and ethernet would be a nightmare, so the house is 100% 802.11g) it’d be perfect.
More >Scalix pt. 3
Aug 20th
I’m throwing in the towel with Scalix. As a drop in replacement to Exchange it’s perfect for 90% of companies. Unfortunately my mail server is a PIII 1GHz which just isn’t up to running Scalix’s Java web interface. The Outlook connector is good, but not perfect. It tends to lock up Outlook on low bandwidth network links, so it’s useless when I’m checking my email on the road over my 384Kbs ADSL link.
I’m back with Postfix/Courier-IMAP, but I’ve still got the original problem of synchronising calendars and contacts.
Defining the Sony PSP
Aug 9th
Rocky Mountain News are running an article about Sony’s PSP and what it’s actually good for. As a games machine it is technically peerless. It’s only competition is the Nintendo Gameboy DS, and the Sony machine has far more advanced graphics hardware. It’s let down by the lack of decent games. Since it’s launch 1 1/2 years ago, only 100 games are on the market worldwide. The decision to launch a proprietary disk standard and try to sell movies could have been a good one if they hadn’t got greedy. Because of their rarity, and poor pricing decisions by Sony More >
