Mac Mini - off to macminicolo.net
Well I finally finished configuring the mac mini. Man what a pain. Apache 2.0.54 had a bug (I think only on OSX 10.4.1) that kept Subversion from working. My blog worked fine but SVN choked. So I dug around and found that the issue was in pushing out more than a few KB Apache was failing. Not sure why that caused SVN to choke but in any event after about 4 hrs of poking around and building older versions I finally decided to try out the trunk of the Apache code base (2.0.55-dev) and it worked. After a bit more searching I posted this thread which lead me to this link to the bug report.
I love open source, even when it doesn't work you can usually find an answer from someone in the community in a matter of hrs.
In other news on the macmini, look for random outages while I figure out how to get my DNS switched
On the Tiger Server front, I choose Server because of the open source stuff included (Apache 2, Mail stuff, SpamAssasin, etc) and the admin tools that sit over that stuff. I figure its worth the extra $370 to have all that stuff out of the box instead of having to build it all. Over all it probably saved me 10 hrs plus so it was worth it. Your milage will likely varry but I already know more about admin than I ever wanted to so I am happy to use a 'stupid' gui tool :-)
