ClockWatching.net
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The Clock
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About The Clock
Early in 2001 I lived in a house in Home Park on the edge of Georgia Tech with an old friend from High School, Matt, and a friend of mine from the Intermezzo days, Wayne. After an undergraduate career of coffee house misanthropy and a few English classes that I happened to pass, I was probably the last person in the house that should have been put in charge of figuring out how to share the quite flaky DSL line accross a pile of Windows boxes. Looking back on it, Spliff the cat was probably better suited to the task, at least he had chewed on some ethernet cable before. I had recieved my first computer as a Christmas present in 1997. Our DSL provider back then was the now defunct Telocity, who offered up a static IP with their basic service. A static IP made it very easy to run a domain off of our meager DSL line. After a few troubles, mostly during the famed "battle with the fucking lamp", Clockwatching.net went live at 2:15 AM on March 15th, 2001.
The machine back then was Tenacious, the same Gateway Pentium 1 that I got halfway through college. We started off on RedHat 7.0, installed on a single 2Gb hard drive. Over the next few months we added a half dozen or so users, among them: Nick a new friend from the Tech Library and extended Intermezzo crowd, Leisure, an old friend of mine from Auburn, and Grant, a new friend from the extended Tech and Intermezzo crowd; although he's partial to another server the Clock owes a lot to, Angband. Saneesh and Iron Mike came onboard around the same time and helped me admin the whole mess as I had no idea what I was doing really.
Around 1997 my first introduction to the word "Linux" came from a man named Jeremy, who with his good friend Patrick owns a server named Procyon, now out in California. Take a second to check the whois record on that domain, yeah that's right, 1994. Around July of 2001 Procyon started to provide us with nameservice after I got in touch with Jer for the first time since I jump started his Ryder truck on his way out of Auburn. The only thing more surprising to me than my procyon account still working after nearly 5 years was that I still remembered the password. Jer and Patrick have since thrown a lot of hardware our way, primarily the current Clockwatching server Melchoir, and more then just a few odds and ends, and I can't thank them enough for that.
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