What ever Happned to GPaL?

With Jack's new job and all the delays, is GPaL finished before it started?

The guy has a 10 ton weight on his shoulders at the moment. Be patient and give the guy a break! Mark

It will be with VERY soon 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

dunno, it was said that it would be here on saturday and itsn sunday now so im beginning to think it is D.B.A and maybe just the biggest joke set in the worst possible taste.

naaaa, did you never know jack? nice fella.

> dunno, it was said that it would be here on saturday and itsn sunday now so > im beginning to think it is D.B.A and maybe just the biggest joke set in the > worst possible taste. I heard he had Geoff Crammond around for tea on Friday. Only dessert has been delayed..... Tony

The death of GPaL has been greatly exaggerated. The death of the development machine on which GPaL is being built has not. Hope I'm not a persona non grata around here! 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> >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.

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>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 [|]-(_)-[|]

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 ========================================== Staff Writer for the Sports *** Network [link lost in import: /***.com/] ==========================================

Yes, Ive been to the Win98 rebuild site many times. A real pain to get things back together again. I don't mind the wait, in fact I wished that I would have waited longer to install the patch :-)) 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

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> 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.

I had a system crash a week ago, had to install everything from scratch again too. Even though I had backups of all my software, it took me allmost a whole day to get everything right again. All the patches, settings and stuff.... terrible. But once in a while it can't hurt to completely reinstall everything. I have much fewer problems now since the reinstall. Before that, GPL crashed often, randomly. Now I don't have that problem anymore. Good luck Jack, hope to hear soon from you. Andre

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>Yes, Ive been to the Win98 rebuild site many times. A real pain to get >things back together again. I don't mind the wait, in fact I wished that I >would have waited longer to install the patch :-)) >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.

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> <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 > [|]-(_)-[|]

We feel your pain! When it's ready, it's ready :-) wilbur

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

Yeee-ouch. 1 windows rebuild is 1 too many. Believe me, that puts a whole new spin on things (and I think I speak for everyone when I say I'm glad that the code wasn't lost, knowing how much time you put into it...) -- Kirk Lane Tempe, AZ ICQ: 28171652 BRT #187 "I read dead Russian authors volumes at a time I write everything down except what's on my mind 'Cause my greatest fear is the sucking sound And then I know I'll never get back out" -'Narcolepsy', Third Eye Blind