I woke up this morning with the sun out shining in.

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It's approaching time to do yet another reinstall of FreeBSD on red, my desktop — I hardly actually sit at it any more (my laptop is so nice), and besides FreeBSD 5.x sucks, too many ports don't work on FreeBSD 4.x any more and I want to try FreeBSD 6, just because.

I have a static IP here, so it's time to set up some outside services. I need to make it SSHable from outside (possibly to only one proxy account which can then su to my real account) and run some sort of web proxy service on it via https (for my convenience). Is there a suitable program for the latter? I might also allow external file access (to media files, etc.) for friends I make something available to. It's also our household media box. I'm also not sure whether to put external portal functions on the same box as my personal stuff or set up another box here as the external portal box.

I'll probably keep running X on it so that I can have Xchat running on it 24/7 (and VNC to it from the laptop) and so that Xscreensaver can continue to amuse arkady when she stays over, and put my 19" IBM flat panel to good use. ("Yes, I installed X specifically to run Xscreensaver.")

Any other ideas or hints and tips on wacky things one can do with a static IP? I also get seven more static IPs just by asking.