With Jack's new job and all the delays, is GPaL finished before it started?
Mark
Otherwise Jack is the ultimate wind up merchant & is laughing into his cold
beer as he reads this!
Tony
It will be with us VERY soon
I hope Jack's writing is more accurate :)
Tony
Only dessert has been delayed.....
Tony
So what happened? Got up early Saturday morning in hopes of finally getting
GPaL in your hands and removing what has become something of an albatross from
around my neck. I quickly discovered that something had taken hold of my dev
machine and causing it to run a speed that was approximating suspended
animation. Well after several futile attempts to cure it's ills by replacing
the registry with recently saved versions and couple of complete Windows
reinstalls, I frustratingly concluded that the machine was going to have to be
rebuilt. A virus was the only conclusion I could draw. Never seen anything like
it.
I just concluded backing up and comparing the several gigabytes of essential
data today. Will be kicking off the rebuild in just a few minutes. Those of you
that had the fun of rebuilding a Windows machine know how time-consuming the
process of formatting and then reinstalling Windows and all your apps, dev
tools, and patches can be. Once that process is complete, I'll resume my GPaL
coding. The only good news is that not a byte of the GPaL source code was lost.
Rather than continue to disappoint you, let me just say that I 1) am devoting
as many off-hours as my wife and new job permit, 2) am as anxious to get it to
you as some of you are to get it, and 3) will post here the moment its ready. I
think I said before that I wouldn't again make the mistake of quoting a date.
But I should say it again.
Please direct all letter bombs to the address below. Your cooperation is
appreciated.
Jack Rambo
www.RaceLive.com/GPaL
P.S. For those of you with high-speed Internet connections (ADSL or cable) with
semi-static IP addresses, don't underestimate the importance of security. I
think I may have discovered the hard way just how vulnerable we are.
P.P.S. When it rains it pours. Guilt ridden about leaving you guys***, I
came home at lunch today to get this post up. Unable to even load OE, I
composed essentially this note from DejaNews. Sent it, but gosh knows where
that post went. Tonight discovered that I could open Netscape. Hope this post
makes it to you!
<snipped, one more windows horror story>
>Please direct all letter bombs to the address below. Your cooperation is
>appreciated.
>Jack Rambo
>www.RaceLive.com/GPaL
Thank-you in advance from those who know the hell you're going through and
those of us who can only imagine. Take your time and do what you have to do
to get GPaL right.
We're getting pretty good at waiting patiently for cool stuff for GPL<g>.
don
[|]-(_)-[|]
Ouch, a rebuild is a bitter pill to swallow for sure. My condolences.
I am glad you didn't have to endure the pain of lost code though, that
would be too much! Good luck with the rebuild.
Joe McGinn
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http://www.racesimcentral.net/***.com/
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I was wondering about the inevitable finally happening, that it, someone
taking advantage of all those IP addresses floating around at SB. I hope
that's not what caused the problem for all our sakes!
Tore
> www.RaceLive.com/GPaL
> P.S. For those of you with high-speed Internet connections (ADSL or cable)
with
> semi-static IP addresses, don't underestimate the importance of security.
I
> think I may have discovered the hard way just how vulnerable we are.
Andre
>I was wondering about the inevitable finally happening, that it, someone
>taking advantage of all those IP addresses floating around at SB. I hope
>that's not what caused the problem for all our sakes!
>Tore
>> I frustratingly concluded that the machine was going to have to be
>> rebuilt. A virus was the only conclusion I could draw. Never seen anything
>like
>> it.
>> Jack Rambo
>> www.RaceLive.com/GPaL
>> P.S. For those of you with high-speed Internet connections (ADSL or cable)
>with
>> semi-static IP addresses, don't underestimate the importance of security.
>I
>> think I may have discovered the hard way just how vulnerable we are.
> <snipped, one more windows horror story>
> >Rather than continue to disappoint you, let me just say that I 1) am
> devoting
> >as many off-hours as my wife and new job permit, 2) am as anxious to get it
> to
> >you as some of you are to get it, and 3) will post here the moment its
> ready. I
> >think I said before that I wouldn't again make the mistake of quoting a
> date.
> >But I should say it again.
> >Please direct all letter bombs to the address below. Your cooperation is
> >appreciated.
> >Jack Rambo
> >www.RaceLive.com/GPaL
> Jack,
> Thank-you in advance from those who know the hell you're going through and
> those of us who can only imagine. Take your time and do what you have to do
> to get GPaL right.
> We're getting pretty good at waiting patiently for cool stuff for GPL<g>.
> don
> [|]-(_)-[|]
Possibly the *best* investment I ever made for my PC was a spare
HD, removable drive bay, and a copy of Partition Magic.
Andrew McP
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