Well, you can hire a London black cab through a number of apps such as Get which will give you a fixed price.
That fixed price gives you the following major benefits in my view:
- interesting badinage with an individual with honed irony - interesting navigational debates with an individual with an enlarged hippocampus (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/677048.stm) - a ride with someone who is highly trained to drive you safely to your destination - knowing that in most cases you are paying an individual for their efforts
What you get with Uber:
- convenience and low cost - often indifferent driving - routes by Google - a competition crushing price whose losses are subsidized by venture capital - a sense of regret when you pay for a trip that the driver, you and the competition are being shafted
My company has been working with Postgres for 5 years. We've built several large sites with it for others and run a webapp for hospital professionals backed by Postgres (with a fair amount of use of stored procedures).
Not only have we found that Postgres has been incredibly stable over the years, but we have also found that upgradeability an enormous boon. The incredibly smooth upgrade process between major versions have allowed us to seamlessly move between versions.
Also, the excellent release notes allow us to easily pick up any changes that are likely to affect our systems.
Postgresql is both a wonderful product and an excellent community.
We had a lot of fun making a perspex case for two DG945FC boards with E6300 processors, with a third board to act as the controller. See http://campbell-lange.net/company/forums/february2009/
We put the machines together in a case in order to demonstrate both services and operating systems migrating between machines. Windows 7 moved across well.
Xen works well on these. VMWare Infrastructure however doesn't support the boards.
As the previous poster mentioned, memory is all important. We've found this little test rig is hugely useful for testing, particularly when one has to throw up different Windows instances to check Linux interoperability.
I use woody on a slightly older powermac (portable), and it works very very well. There are some important things to be aware of in the newer machines. They use softmodems, support for playing DVDs is, I believe, somewhat patchy, and support for firewire devices is not perfect.
That said, installing the Debian distros are extremely easy, and you can expect updates every few days.
I used to use LinuxPPC. It was easy to install and meant that getting a small 7200 up and running with apache, proftpd and so on was easy (this was our office's first foray into Linux 2 years ago - now we have our main servers all running Linux). However, as a newbie, I found it difficult to upgrade the system sensibly.
Now our office runs Debian potato on our VALinux servers, and an old 7600 powermac. It is very convenient to have the same distribution running on different machines. As new or upgraded Debian packages are released simultaneously between all architectures the software realease levels of the Mac and Intel boxes is the same.
I can recommend using Linux, particularly Debian, for older power macs. While they are no longer powerful enough for recent MacOS applications, they run very well indeed as small mail, web or ftp servers.
When installing woody on my Lombard PowerBook, I found it fairly time consuming to get the Debian installers to work, partly as I chose to do it during a change the woody boot-floppies. However once that was sorted out, the base install and boot setup went smoothly, with some help from the extremely helpful members of the Debian PPC mailing list.
If you don't mind spending a bit of time reading the (generally excellent) installation guide and doing the odd bit of configuration by hand, I believe you will find Debian PPC highly rewarding.
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Well, you can hire a London black cab through a number of apps such as Get which will give you a fixed price.
That fixed price gives you the following major benefits in my view:
- interesting badinage with an individual with honed irony
- interesting navigational debates with an individual with an enlarged hippocampus (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/677048.stm)
- a ride with someone who is highly trained to drive you safely to your destination
- knowing that in most cases you are paying an individual for their efforts
What you get with Uber:
- convenience and low cost
- often indifferent driving
- routes by Google
- a competition crushing price whose losses are subsidized by venture capital
- a sense of regret when you pay for a trip that the driver, you and the competition are being shafted
My company has been working with Postgres for 5 years. We've built several large sites with it for others and run a webapp for hospital professionals backed by Postgres (with a fair amount of use of stored procedures). Not only have we found that Postgres has been incredibly stable over the years, but we have also found that upgradeability an enormous boon. The incredibly smooth upgrade process between major versions have allowed us to seamlessly move between versions. Also, the excellent release notes allow us to easily pick up any changes that are likely to affect our systems. Postgresql is both a wonderful product and an excellent community.
You can use heartbeat + Xen over 2 boxes to get HA, so long as you have shared storage. There are some notes about how we did Xen live migration on our "perspex box" in my comment here: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1171301&cid=27295879 Citrix Xenserver now offers "Live Motion" for free: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939
We had a lot of fun making a perspex case for two DG945FC boards with E6300 processors, with a third board to act as the controller. See http://campbell-lange.net/company/forums/february2009/ We put the machines together in a case in order to demonstrate both services and operating systems migrating between machines. Windows 7 moved across well. Xen works well on these. VMWare Infrastructure however doesn't support the boards. As the previous poster mentioned, memory is all important. We've found this little test rig is hugely useful for testing, particularly when one has to throw up different Windows instances to check Linux interoperability.
I use woody on a slightly older powermac (portable), and it works very very well. There are some important things to be aware of in the newer machines. They use softmodems, support for playing DVDs is, I believe, somewhat patchy, and support for firewire devices is not perfect. That said, installing the Debian distros are extremely easy, and you can expect updates every few days.
I used to use LinuxPPC. It was easy to install and meant that getting a small 7200 up and running with apache, proftpd and so on was easy (this was our office's first foray into Linux 2 years ago - now we have our main servers all running Linux). However, as a newbie, I found it difficult to upgrade the system sensibly.
Now our office runs Debian potato on our VALinux servers, and an old 7600 powermac. It is very convenient to have the same distribution running on different machines. As new or upgraded Debian packages are released simultaneously between all architectures the software realease levels of the Mac and Intel boxes is the same.
I can recommend using Linux, particularly Debian, for older power macs. While they are no longer powerful enough for recent MacOS applications, they run very well indeed as small mail, web or ftp servers.
When installing woody on my Lombard PowerBook, I found it fairly time consuming to get the Debian installers to work, partly as I chose to do it during a change the woody boot-floppies. However once that was sorted out, the base install and boot setup went smoothly, with some help from the extremely helpful members of the Debian PPC mailing list.
If you don't mind spending a bit of time reading the (generally excellent) installation guide and doing the odd bit of configuration by hand, I believe you will find Debian PPC highly rewarding.