I currently work for Carpathia Hosting as Director of Engineering. Before joining Carpathia I was with Guru Networks and (previously known as Open Systems Associates). I have over 15 years of experience managing IP networks and Unix systems.

I have set up a simple page that shows your IPv4 and/or IPv6 address. IPv6 is a newer version of Internet Protocol that has a greatly expanded pool of addresses. It offers a solution to the problem that we will likely run out of IPv4 addresses within 5-10 years. The difficulty is in migrating the billion or so existing systetms using IPv4.

Personal:

My Father, Frank J. Loch passed away on 2008/02/16. In addition to his day job as a Manager/Engineer he was a composer of Post-minimalist music (or "21st century Classical" as I like to call it).

Here is my YouTube folder. can download higher quality versions of some of these videos Here.

For fun I have built a few image hosting websites, Brickshelf.com for people to share pictures of LEGO creations and majhost.com for general purpose image hosting. Brickshelf currently hosts over 1.7 million pictures and gets about 24 million page views per month. As you can see from these sites, I am an awful web designer but I do take pride in writing fast, efficient and reliable code. These sites were written in C/mysql.

I operate two amateur radio repeaters in the Northern Virginia area for the benefit of disaster preparedness in the region. They operate on 145.13MHz (107.2Hz pl) and 1286.1MHz. I also maintain a solar data portal/archive at N3KL.org.

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