Jammed.com
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JAMMED dot COM
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about jammed.com
jammed.com is a motley collection of obsolete or otherwise rejected Unix machines that reside in the basement of an old house in the Hawthorne district of Portland, OR, at the other end of a 512kb DSL connection provided by Aracnet, a local, reliable and affordable ISP. In the old days (1994-1996), it was a UUCP node (unkadath.uucp), originally through the grace of MacMinix (!) running on a Mac Classic (!!), (later upgraded to the most krad Mac of all time, the Mac SE/30.. which I bought at a NAU auction for 7.7% of the cost of my Classic.. but anyway.). The UUCP feed was courtesy of Paul Balyoz-- at the time, a Unix sysadmin for Northern Arizona University's College of Computer Science & Engineering. From February 1996 to March 2000, jammed.com ran off of a 33.6 USR Courier modem with a PPP connection to the Internet via scruz.net.
jwa runs the site. The domain name was registered in 1995. The name "jammed" was a silly idea for a company name I had as a sixth-grader. Initially it was an abbreviation; "J.A.M.M.E.D. Systems, Inc." (I never came up with anything memorable for the abbreviation.)
This web server is named "tillamook" (uptime 21d 3:21), named for a street in Portland (which is in turn named for the town of Tillamook, famous for its cheese.) It is is a 350mhz AMD K6 with 64mbs of RAM, running Debian GNU/Linux and the Apache http daemon. The last time I looked, the server pumps out about .582 requests/sec -- which works out to roughly ~50,000 hits per day. Most of that is hits to a side project of mine, newzbot. The banner ads on this site actually help offset the cost of my ISP & telco bills, amazing! Who said banner advertising was dead..
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