Forwarded from FMS: benjamin at y7xEHiGMGlivnCq-a8SpYU0YO-XRNI3LcJHB8tCeaXI wrote : johnie at 6kzjmQCFtZFFEJ0WThb29r63T5JkJg2Xy5hZSvItG1A a scris: >> Dear list, >> >> As of 20th Feb, 2010 2pm GMT, my Samsung 80GB harddisk, after four >> years of services, have finally come to dead. I think this is the >> right time for me to withdraw from the freenet community completely. >> >> If you have a good memory, around 1.5 years ago, my computer suffered >> from a motherboard failure. Since then, I have much less involvement >> in the development. --- The fact is, I was, at the time, struggling to >> spend more time on reading bible and serving my Lord. I prayed my >> Lord, and the motherboard fails. I took this as a sign for me to >> involve less in this project. >> >> Yesterday night, I was praying, again, for the forgiveness of my sin. >> I said to my Lord that, if he see fit, take away the computer so I >> won't have it as my idol. And, yea, the computer die. Now, I don't >> have any computer powerful enough to run freenet. >> >> Sorry, Toad. I can't complete the library/spider Chinese support. The >> code in xmlspider should be very easy to port to xmllibrary, as I have >> done some cleanup before commit. >> >> Sorry xor, I can't continue the freenet-git bot. I do have some backup >> of that piece of code, but I don't have any spare harddisk for >> restoring it. If you found that too important, I may ask my friends >> help me to restore them. >> >> "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under >> the heaven" (Eccl 3:1). >> I know this is very sudden -- it surprise me as well. But this is the >> right time to move on. >> Goodbye friends, I will miss you all. >> >> Regards, >> Daniel Cheng (aka SDiZ)
Sorry to hear that, but I can understand your motivation well. I have experienced similar interruptions and interventions, both personally and by friends. Thanks for your work on Freenet, all the best for your future, and may God bless you! [ Maybe someone subscribed to the mailing list can forward this and possibly other replies here. Thanks! ]
