About SELFSO.COM
An independent private computing organization hosting open-source tools, technical experiments, and creative endeavors.
The Meaning of “Self-So” (自然)
The word selfso is rooted in classical Chinese Taoist philosophy (Ziran / 自然). In contemporary language, the characters translate literally to “nature” or “spontaneity”.
Philosophically, the term signifies the essence of things being true to their own nature — unforced, unconditioned, and perfectly aligned with natural law. In engineering and software craftsmanship, being truthful to a system’s natural order and function is the core ideal of selfso.
Legacy Server Architecture (circa 2003)
In its foundational era, SELFSO.COM was hosted on dedicated enterprise UNIX hardware:
- • Machine: Sun Microsystems SunFire V100
- • Architecture: 64-bit UltraSPARC-IIe
- • Memory: 512MB ECC DRAM
- • Storage: 40GB IDE-HD
- • OS: Sun Solaris 9
- • Network: Dedicated T-1 line at Viosoft Datacenter
Provided Apache-SSL, SMTP/POP3 mail, public CVS version control repositories, and shell environments.
