Morris Communications and Computers Services, Inc. was formed in April 1997 by Philip & Doug Morris (no relation). They had one goal in mind: to provide exceptional Internet and World Wide Web services to professional Web and Internet developers.
As the Internet expands and become more an integral part of our society, we need a place where developers can craft their pages. Internet Service Providers do a great job of providing connectivity, but there needs to be a place to build, test, and design new Internet and Web content without someone looking over your shoulder all the time.
Our sites are dedicated to serving the developer and their clients to ensure their information can be delivered at the highest possible rate and with as much interactive content as required.
Philip E. Morris, Jr. (Co-owner) received a B.S. degree from Christopher Newport College in 1989 in Applied Physics with a specialization in Microelectronics. Since his graduation, he has been employed by NASA contractors to work with robotics, high-intensity radiated fields and information security. During this time he has worked on a variety of computing platforms including PC, Macintosh, Unix, and OS-9. He has written software to encrypt data, interface dissimilar computing platforms, simulate flight data and operate robotics for the Space Station.
Philip has also worked as a consultant for private industry for firms including multimedia publishers, newspapers and the City of Hampton. Part of his consulting work is to assess system needs, order equipment and assemble workstations for clients, following up with troubleshooting and maintenance.
Philip has been active with the Internet community since its early days. He maintains his own web pages, and has designed secure pages for the industry partners of NASA for the National Aerospace Plane. The secure pages were designed to allow associate of the Aerospace Plane to share proprietary information. He has also written HTML for other projects at NASA.
W. Douglas Morris, Jr. (Co-owner) received his B.A. in English with a concentration in writing and a Minor in Philosophy from East Carolina University in 1992. Since his graduation, he has been employed by several newspapers as both a reporter and an editor, by a desktop publishing company as a graphic artist, a systems administrator, and an editor, and by several NASA contractors to program IBM 370 Mainframes, administer Macintosh computers running MacOS and IBM-PC clones running Windows, and administer Sun, IBM, Apple, Silicon Graphics, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Hewlett Packard Corporation computers running Unix and VMS. During this time he has worked on a variety operating systems including AppleDOS, MacOS, MS-DOS/Windows, Unix, VMS, and MVS.
Doug has been active in the internet community since 1992, including active participation in Usenet newsgroups, mailing lists, and early development work in the Hypertext Markup Language specification. Doug authored Connecting a Database to the World Wide Web using RDB -- a Free Relational Database Management System in 1995. Doug Morris has developed software based on connectivity with the World Wide Web for NASA/Langley Research Center including a WWW-linked database, several search engines, a computer trouble reporting system, and a system information tracking package.
Totoro has replaced Jiji. Totoro was designed to be an 800Lb gorilla of a workstation. It runs Linux (RedHat 4.2 distribuiton) on a 233Mhz AMD K6 processor with 64Mb of RAM. It has a 9Gb Segate Wide Fast SCSI-2 disk and an Exabyte 8500 Tape backup.
Jiji is our first server. It has a 166MHz Intel based Pentium processor. It has 64M of RAM and a 2.8G hard disk. It is running the Red Hat distribution of Linux.
Why did we pick the name Jiji for our first server? Both Philip and Doug enjoy many hobbies that range from mountain biking to writing. Both agree that Hayao Miyazaki makes great movies. His work includes My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa, Laputa, and Kiki's Delivery Service. Jiji is the name of a witches cat in Kiki's Delivery Service.
Skipper is our test server. It is currently being used solely as a testing and development machine. It is an Intel 486/66 based machine with 32M of RAM and a 540M hard disk. It is used to test new versions of Linux and beta versions of software.
