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After serving its primary mission as the on-line image repository for my trip to Mexico, I installed webcam software on Hellbender for a few weeks as I adjusted to a new living situation in Cleveland, Ohio (early May 2004). After realizing that, in fact, no one really ever looks at your webcam if you're not naked, I went ahead and put Hellbender into stasis until I can figure out what its next uses will be.
Thu Apr 1 11:41:53 EST 2004 Ok, all photos are up. Added: DSC00665.JPG -- DSC00964.JPG Mon Mar 15 15:13:37 EST 2004 A few new photos uploaded to front page, but I can't get enough bandwidth to load them all. Gdl, Jal, Mexico. Sat Mar 6 14:15:35 EST 2004 Added: DSC00626.JPG -- DSC00665.JPG Sat Feb 21 14:47:23 EST 2004 Added: DSC00555.JPG -- DSC00588.JPG Wed Feb 11 15:50:28 EST 2004 Added: DSC00454.JPG -- DSC00554.JPG 28-Jan-2004 16:25 Added: DSC00431.JPG -- DSC00453.JPG
Hellbender is alive once more!
Reachable via a quick HTTP redirect through hellbender.vilimpoc.org, Hellbender is back on line!
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Current Specs -- Asus P5A-B Motherboard, Pentium-MMX 208MHz, 288MB RAM, 30GB storage, Realtek RTL-8029 NE2000 PCI card, Matrox Millennium II PCI card, Aureal Vortex 1 PCI card.
root@hellbender:~# date;uname -a;w
root@hellbender:~#
Hellbender was assembled over the course of three days at the end of 1999, just before I took off for the awesome Chicago-land New Years Bash. Initially, I used Hellbender as a testbed for various things, as an Apache/SSL webserver, as a Samba server for my MP3 collection. It gave me a good understanding of the client-server environment, and it was just neat to listen to the thing quietly humming away at night. I remember the specs including one very, very quiet (~30dB) IBM hard drive.
I'd been using it to store most of my more important data files and things that I probably couldn't live without if my front-end computer
were to crash. At the time, I remember my desktop had a 10GB drive, while Hellbender had a new 20GB drive which was handy for storing, say, music.
Fortunately, it had no problems over four and a half months of continuous operation. To give you an example, and to give away what it is running (of course it was running Linux), here is an uptime I did a long time ago:
And here we are as of the date shown:
hellbender:/$ w
11:31pm up 46 days, 4:37, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
vilimpoc pts/0 rbra-91-146.resn 11:21pm 0.00s 0.15s 0.03s w
hellbender:/$
I think it actually made it a bit further than that, possibly to day 60, but I can't remember, either way I had to shut it down when I abruptly
left the dorms to pursue a co-op at the beginning of Spring Quarter 2000. Unfortunately, this means I
had to miss the beautiful sunbathers scattered across the campus through that particular quarter.
hellbender:/$ date
Sat Apr 22 17:46:32 EDT 2000
hellbender:/$ w
5:45pm up 14 days, 2:04, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
vilimpoc pts/0 192.24.36.40 1:15pm 0.00s 0.43s 0.03s w
hellbender:/$
Can anyone guess who's in the poster in the background? Hint: It's a female musician. And she plays the piano.