29 October 2005

Let’s recap the facts (not in chronological order)…

I 99%-switched to OS X — if I ever buy a video capture box for the Mac, the PC will only be left with 3DSmax (oh, and games, maybe).

OS X includes Unix, Apache and PHP, which were the reasons I needed a Linux server until now. Besides, OS X also includes Spotlight, AppleScript and other stuff that’ll fulfill my needs better than PHP could, so I probably won’t even need a local Apache server anymore (you could expect me to have one in order to test scripts for the sites I maintain, but I can’t, for various technical and totally real reasons).

And I don’t really need RAID-1; I can just rsync my main disk to a backup once a day.

So the conclusion is, a Mac file server would be much more convenient. And a Mac mini would waste less room than the Linux tower. And there were old minis on sale in Paris. And I wanted a mini, and I wanted to have a Mac for the remaining week I’d spend in Paris, and I wanted a mini, and I wanted a mini. So I bought one (rather cheap). A logical reasoning, right?

Wrong. Forgot to reconsider all the hypotheses. Here’s the thing I overlooked: I don’t need a fucking file server anymore! Since I intend to put everything on external drives, and I don’t need RAID, and all files will be on a Mac anyway… what does the mini do in the equation that two external drives^* on the iMac can’t? Well? Nothing, that’s what they do, dumbass, you bought a Mac mini for nothing, right when you’re supposed to be saving in order to move to Paris.

So what am I gonna do with a mini now? It’s not like I’ll live in so big a flat I’ll need computers in every room: there’ll only be one room!

^* : actually, two drives’s one too much, because the iMac, unlike the mini, does include a hard drive. So I only need one external drive for my daily backups. Fucking dumbass, really.