Dude it's good to see your still alive!
Hope you're finally able to play quake again, eh? Well, after getting rid
of the emails etc.
Give me a call sometime, you might even persuade me to take you out for a
drink or something.
On a more on-topic note however, Should the quake downloads need server
space, you know who to turn too.
Look forward to catching up. Last time was Christmas. Actually tell a lye
it was new years day.
On Tuesday, June 19, 2007 6:50 PM,
Sabahattin Gucukoglu happened to mention in passing:
Hi all,
As doubtless some of you will have noticed by now, after over two months
of Internet downtime, plenty of lost mail, government bureaucracy, a lot
of patches and catching up and all the other things that have insisted
upon befalling me in recent times when they really weren't wanted, I am
back and will soon be taking up the role of supreme hacker extraordinaire
again (yeah, right! :-) ) in the fixing of Windows builds to get a
release closer to completion. The actual story of how my ISP, by means
of a typo in an entry field in an authentication database, more or less
needlessly (but very successfully!) kept me from working during most of
my downtime and then failed to give me sufficient compensation for both
the downtime and a router they never sent is too hideous to recount. So
I won't. Needless to say, it's been shaky and after much contortion I am
about ready to get into it again. I'll be visiting Matthew properly for
the first time in quite a bit, too, and doubtless we'll be discussing the
project then as well. Well, until we find the nearest bar, anyway. :-)
About the only other thing that's happened recently, noteworthy for being
quite wonderful in all this strife, is that I now have a pet cat called
Tab. She's a gingery-orange tabby and had obviously just been turned out
as a stray. She's in excellent health and has ridden everything out so
far. She's a sweet little thing and a delight to keep. Anyway, on to
the news ...
I'm certainly pleased with the way the lists have sustained themselves
while we've been unavailable. It's always nice to see so much support
amongst the community members. This is an important thing for AGRIP.
Thanks to everyone for putting their hands in and helping others when it
was really needed and when we were unable to. Looking at the archive is
a pleasure because people's questions have almost all been dealt with
very well by the community.
On the other hand, there's been some flaming. There's even been a little
shouting at the poor, helpless moderators for not getting involved. The
discussion and its conclusion needs no real accounting for, but needless
to say that we are not negligent, that we really are watching proceedings
carefully, and that it isn't pleasant to find among the rumblings of
minor discontentments a rejoinder about our suitability as moderators.
We're busy, being run over, studying, being disconnected from the
internet, being caught up in bureaucracy, taming new animals and all the
rest. Okay? It's not our fault.
While we're on the subject of mail, we now have a backlog of some 250
mails which did not get dealt with on the list. They were sent to us
personally and weren't forwarded. Quite a few people went on to
subscribe and ask on-list, which is great, but there are a few that
didn't. Those mails, as well as unanswerable mails and bug reports,
will get seen to in time. If you want to voice any objections about AQ,
now is the time to do it, because soon we'll be aggregating all this
mail into a hitlist which will be the focus just before the release and,
most likely, just afterwards in the form of contributory patches. So
make yourself heard now, please. In the immediate future, though, mail
is getting less attention (it was hard enough just catching up with the
last lot, what with my mail loss - thank goodness we have archives of
the list, at least) while we're busy at work on the all-important
features for the first milestone release in quite a while!
Right, that's about it for now. It's good to be back, if exhausting. A
week of Herculean work seems to have just about managed to pay off, and
the real work commences soon!
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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