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ThinkBlog.org is a place where you can come for interesting discourse on psychology and philosophy, theology and tips on technology; a place to find helpful and useful links; and a place (via the Forums) to have your own voice heard. The spirit of ThinkBlog (and, of course, of the ThinkForums) is discussion, dialogue: a means by which to share your thoughts, arguments, reviews, tips, tricks, poetry, or anything you like in the vein four “cardinal disciplines.”

In mid-2003, I was running a Red Hat Linux 9.0 server/workstation in my apartment and wanted a way to access some crucial files from my home. I relegated the idea to the back of my mind until I went to my then-roommate’s friend’s home page, which I shortly learned was running off of a server in his house, and using a free DNS provider to point to the machine. Ingenius! I signed up at No-IP and registered a free domain or two, downloaded the UNIX-based dynamic IP update client, and soon was able to connect from anywhere to my own server. All I wanted to be able to do in the first place was not to have to remember my (then constantly-shifting) IP in order to get to the SSH/SFTP server on my personal machine when I needed some files.

But it didn’t end there. Eventually, I had the SSH Linux server (soon also serving as NAT router, DHCP server, and caching DNS server!) running on the cable modem, with a couple of machines attached to the Linux box through a simple hub. At some point, my two pet projects became configuring iptables scripts by hand (I ended up using Dr. Bob Sully’s at Malibyte.net) and setting up an Apache 2.0 server under Windows XP on a separate machine with MySQL and PHP just for kicks, and forwarding the traffic to port 80 to that machine.