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scholar
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Dan Cross is a hero
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Nov 10 01:19 UTC 2005 |
I'd like this item to be used for us all to express our appreciation of Dan
Cross and his contributions to Grex.
While he hasn't contributed shit compared to what some of the old foagies
have, he's one of Grex's newest (and perhaps, at least recently, most active)
staff members. I'm not at all original and am indeed rather bland when I note
that helping to admin a system is a job where you hear all sorts of complaints
when shit happens, but don't hear many thanks for even acknowledgements when
things go right. Despite those limitations, the sentiment is TRUE, and Dan
ought to have what he's contributed acknowledged.
I know I'm not exactly a respected member of the Grex community, and that I
deserve the position of DISPRESECT I'm relegated to, and, indeed, that I seem
rather ANTAGONISTIC to the Grex community and indeed even Dan Cross
personally. However, I truly appreciate Dan Cross's contribution to Grex,
a system I enjoy as much as anybody, and I hope my own desiccated status on
Grex doesn't interfere with the purpose of this item: to acknowledge and
support Dan Cross's efforts to improve and enhance Grex.
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cross
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response 1 of 42:
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Nov 10 01:20 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, scholar! :-)
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bhoward
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response 2 of 42:
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Nov 10 03:51 UTC 2005 |
I never thought I would live to see the day :-)
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naftee
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response 3 of 42:
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Nov 10 04:27 UTC 2005 |
cross :-)
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cross
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response 4 of 42:
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Nov 10 04:31 UTC 2005 |
I'm Rick James, bitch.
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naftee
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response 5 of 42:
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Nov 10 06:19 UTC 2005 |
Is Wayne Brady gonna hafta choke a bitch ??
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spooked
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response 6 of 42:
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Nov 11 13:51 UTC 2005 |
Shit - he can actually string together a few humane and
grammatically-sound structures together...
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scholar
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response 7 of 42:
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Nov 11 21:48 UTC 2005 |
I'm not sure if anyone else on Grex has paid enough attention to certain
actions of spooked to realise he's awfully creepy, but the fact stands: he's
awfully creepy!
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naftee
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response 8 of 42:
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Nov 12 05:08 UTC 2005 |
r 292
ql
i'm spooked :(
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janc
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response 9 of 42:
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Nov 28 15:04 UTC 2005 |
I'm sorry to see Dan leave staff. His contributions have been very
real. Not only did he do a lot in porting various code to OpenBSD
(notably the login stuff), but his participation in technical
discussions during the period when we were moving Grex to OpenBSD
was very helpful to me in the work I did. His tolerance for
aggravation and frustration weren't quite up to what is routinely
demanded from Grex staff, but I consider that more of a problem
with Grex than a problem with Dan. In any sane organization, I'd
be happy to have Dan on my team.
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tod
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response 10 of 42:
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Nov 28 17:09 UTC 2005 |
Who's in charge here? -Captain Willard
Aren'tt you? -Soldier at Do Long Bridge
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keesan
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response 11 of 42:
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Nov 28 20:32 UTC 2005 |
I hope that Dan was only expressing his emotions and is not really going away.
I get a bit annoyed at some people here sometimes too.
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cross
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response 12 of 42:
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Nov 29 01:43 UTC 2005 |
Welp, I was removed from all staff related aliases, groups, etc, and got my
access to the staff conference yanked, so, I'm pretty much gone as staff.
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keesan
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response 13 of 42:
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Nov 29 03:18 UTC 2005 |
Would you consider coming back as staff if asked politely?
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tsty
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response 14 of 42:
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Nov 29 03:59 UTC 2005 |
as of what date, cross, were you offed?
btw, for the 'offense' of keeping grex down - rather than destroyed - and
also being somewhat of a staff-pest, i was summarily 'offed' after
confiding some then-current stresses to staff member(s)` who, it seems,
betrayed me. that sort of leadership was the absolute *last* of all
my hopes for grex-as-friends/family.
it has never been a matter of 'if', it has only been a matter of 'when'
and 'who' that grex would blow up.
for over a decade *my* focus has been to provide services to RECOVER
from both 'when' and 'who'.
damn shame it was STeve - too bad my services have been ignored since
LOOOONG before 'when.' denying the inevitability of 'when' is borg/staff
arrogance, or something similar.
dumping on STeve is non=-productive in the extreme. stop it.
dumping on borg for stucture failures IS productive - keep it up!
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scholar
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response 15 of 42:
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Nov 29 04:52 UTC 2005 |
Re. 12: Don't call keesan a welp!
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tod
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response 16 of 42:
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Nov 29 10:41 UTC 2005 |
re #14
I thought the complaint was popcorn related?
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mary
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response 17 of 42:
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Nov 29 13:58 UTC 2005 |
Re: 12 Dan, you are off staff because you asked to be off staff.
You sent mail to baff resigning and gave a good reason for doing so.
But I suspect your resignation (the second time you've resigned) was again
out of anger, because I'd criticized you for being critical of STeve,
especially when you stated his reputation was "overblown".
I have no problem with you disagreeing with me. It's a shame you go off
like a bomb when I disagree with you. I'm glad the rest of staff doesn't
likewise blow when you lob criticism at them.
You may have thought about it some and reconsidered your resignation. It
looks like some folks think you would be a good fit. If so, let staff
know, they'll discuss it and ask the board to okay it, and you'll again
have your access.
My personal opinion (and you don't have to read this if you think it will
bother you too much) is that you are talented and knowledgeable but way to
volatile to be on Grex's staff. We've done talented and knowledgable and
volatile before and it almost killed the system.
But others might and obviously do feel differently. So there you go.
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tod
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response 18 of 42:
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Nov 29 16:45 UTC 2005 |
Taking Grex down without notifying users and then destroying their mail isn't
"volatile"? Grex staff has always been volatile so long as Grex has gone down
days on end without updates to the users. I think the Grex Board needs to
work on its diplomacy skills and try to keep staff around. Insulting the
existing staff members and then calling them volatile borders on mentally
abusive. Why would anyone put up with that?
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keesan
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response 19 of 42:
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Nov 29 17:22 UTC 2005 |
Mary, I have also found some of your remarks (probably based on unfounded
assumptions) upsetting, though I did not mention it at the time. Perhaps you
could wait until the next day and reconsider some of your statements before
posting them, if they might offend someone here. And Dan, perhaps you could
do the same before reacting to postings that you find upsetting. In person,
they might not come across the same way. Mary is a good person, but can rub
people the wrong way despite her good intentions. You could both write out
your responses and put them aside to mull over until morning. Sometimes
people post things that they would not dream of saying in person, maybe
because the other person seems like an abstract concept not an individual.
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jadecat
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response 20 of 42:
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Nov 29 17:26 UTC 2005 |
re #18- there was a note in the MOTD about Grex going down for an OS
upgrade... at least I remember seeing it there beforehand.
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tod
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response 21 of 42:
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Nov 29 18:01 UTC 2005 |
re #20
I log on Grex pretty regularly..several times a day. I would be surprised
if that MOTD was more than a few hours in advance.
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mary
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response 22 of 42:
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Nov 29 18:03 UTC 2005 |
Be surprised, be very surprised.
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tod
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response 23 of 42:
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Nov 29 18:12 UTC 2005 |
re #22
I would also ask that the General Announcements item also include the
notification about expected downtimes. Often as a SSH user or someone with
a fast connection, you don't always catch the MOTD. Who on the Board is going
to take that torch aand hold staff to it?
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steve
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response 24 of 42:
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Nov 29 18:28 UTC 2005 |
Sorry but that can't always be done. Its *good* to give notice about
when the system will be going down, and I'll always try for that. But
given the realities of access to Grex now, and personal schedules, the
oppurtunity to do something physical is sometimes going to be on short
notice.
This is a simple reality of moving the system to a place where we
don't have continued access.
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