[os] What's in the box?

You are meandering through the virtual halls of a Linux box, pretending to be a large cabbage. Or was it the other way around?

The site history shows at what addresses this site has resided over the years. One must question, though: what is this site?

Really, this site, and all sites connected to it, are my lowly adventures on the Internet. From my first "glory" days on AOL [m], through my dialup days on DelaNet, during my long stay on Cable, and to be an eventual customer of DSL, I could not imagine how my life would be had the Internet not been my mentor and guardian. The site's development on @Home (which was swallowed by Comcast) was tremendous for such a small corner of the Internet, and is chronicled herein, followed by the switch to DSL:

irix.penguinpowered.com was the beginning
os.dyns.cx, after justlinux.com stopped offering penguinpowered.com
24.40.4.186, while dyns.cx's nameservers went through growing pains and timed out on my SOA/NS records
os.markbach.com, generously offered by Mark Schonbach so I need not use my bare IP
68.82.35.89, after Comcast "saved" @Home customers from suffering the fate of @Home's bankruptcy
68.82.35.89:8080: I started blocking port 80 from some potentially malicious subnets, but, just in case, I also ran my webserver on port 8080
stdout.dhs.org, because hosting a site on a bare dynamic IP (albeit with a one-year lease) is never a good idea
os.us.eu.org, since dhs.org stopped offering SOA/NS service (only A records)
68.82.38.98: my 1-year lease expired, whee; eu.org took a bit of time to update their records
69.136.249.194: Comcast shortened the default lease period; eu.org took a bit of time to update their records (and was slow to update my zonefiles)
66.92.231.92 is my new Speakeasy static IP, one of two
os.sh.nu was the first alias set up for DSL; *.os.dyns.cx (now just an A record) was updated shortly thereafter
os.1.vg, my shortest address ever, became the primary one, as eu.org was getting behind on updating their database, and os.sh.nu was just an A record (I like running my own BIND!)
orangesquid.net, the domain name I've wanted for years (and got in late 2004)

I have also registered/used:

stdin.dhs.org (now defunct)
stderr.dhs.org (now defunct)
blech7777irix.dhs.org (now defunct)
orangesquid.ind (alternate DNS)
gro.dyndns.org
hta.ath.cx
os.dnsalias.com
os.dnsalias.net
os.dnsalias.org
os.homeip.net
os.merseine.nu
os.mine.nu
os.shacknet.nu

The Wayback Machine has, fortunately, catalogued a few of the major addresses (shown by black lines on the site history).

Cable modem mostly depicted the adventures of High School, at CSW. I have a site featuring the fabulous escapades from my freshman [m] and sophomore years at UD (as of Summer 2004, I am going on my Junior year in Electrical Engineering). The other sites worth mentioning are the first [m], second, third, and (until further notice) final [m] homepages of the Northern Delaware garage/basement band known as fear of .Z.E.R.O., and you can stalk me by reading all about my life.

You can also look at stats on some other machines I'm running.

Other sites hosted on this box:

Now go slap a potato, kid.

[m] designates local mirror availability.