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For months I wanted to get my own server on the internet. I've got a static IP on my DSL, which makes administration fun and easy (versus a co-located box). I now use a (cheaper) dynamic IP address account with this server as a router for my other machines and http://www.dyndns.org as a service to allow me to run a webserver via a dynamic ip!

There's something fun about having a little sheet metal box in my garage which the entire world can come and visit.

I've had this box for some time now. I used it to write the Quake add-on pack Shrak, as well as some other game projects that never saw the light of day.

The case itself came from Hacker's Heaven in Columbus Ohio. Not sure if they're still in business, but I had some great friends there and built dozens of machines with parts from these guys. Ah, the days when 8MB of RAM cost $250 - on sale, that is.

The motherboard and processor came from a little computer store in northwest Indiana, which I purchased one day when I was all but snowed in from driving to my job at In Flight Phone. It's got a Pentium 166, non MMX processor which I've bravely overclocked to 200Mhz - never noticing a bit of performance difference of course. Unfortunately this motherboard won't let me overclock to 233Mhz.

I've got 64MB of SIMMs in the thing. It will also take a could DIMMs, but I generously let my former employer Apropos upgrade to a DIMM I had in trade for these SIMMs on a motherboard that didn't take SIMMs.

I also have a laughable Diamond Stealth 1MB graphics card that does just fine for displaying my 80 column terminal, and even 1024x768 KDE.

Somehow it just feels good to make use of this machine which by today's standards would never be considered for purchase. Long live linux!

-- MattWalsh - 18 Dec 2001