mdwatts - Mike Watts has passed away - Page 5


Page 5 of 14 FirstFirst 123456789 ... LastLast
Results 61 to 75 of 210

Thread: mdwatts - Mike Watts has passed away

  1. #61
    Join Date
    Nov 2002
    Location
    Miami
    Posts
    204
    I haven't been able to be here for a while now. My cousing just told me the sad news. He helped me a lot as well as many countless others. He gave me my first steps on linux

    He really will be missed.
    "We are completely responsible of what and how we feel on every situation. We know it but that is a responsability we don't want to have. That amount of freedom seems overwhelming"
    ---Me

  2. #62
    Join Date
    Sep 2002
    Posts
    974
    mdwatts was a great man. People like him don't deserve bad things like that. It's a shame.

    You will be really missed, you were appreciated like no other.


    PS. somewhat strange that no one had any idea he was sick at all? Usually things like that creep out at least a little bit?

  3. #63
    Join Date
    Jul 2002
    Location
    San Diego, CA
    Posts
    505
    Originally posted by Fryguy8

    PS. somewhat strange that no one had any idea he was sick at all? Usually things like that creep out at least a little bit?
    It may not have been common knowlege, but it wasn't very hushed up(for lack of a better word) that he had cancer. He had to take extended leaves due to it before.

    such a terrible thing cancer can be
    Join the JustLinux irc chat | irc.freenode.net | #linuxn00b
    San Diego Web Development | Used Computers for Sale

    Slackware Linux | Gentoo Linux | Debian GNU/Linux
    Registerd Linux User #313504

  4. #64
    Join Date
    Feb 2003
    Location
    Arkansas, CSA
    Posts
    886
    I just ain't got the words.

    My deepest sympathies to his family and friends. I reckon God needed a Linux guru in heaven.

    Later,
    MMYoung
    In the 60's people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

    Slackware 11.0 - Dropline GNOME 2.16.1 - kernel 2.6.18
    openSUSE 10.2 with Xgl/compiz/beryl
    Windows XP - kernel klink
    Buy Slack
    Dropline GNOME

  5. #65
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Posts
    636
    From the beginning mdwatts has helped me through my linux struggles. He was a great man even though I didn't know him personally. He gave much to this community and we should be thankful for the time that we had with him. I don't think anyone on this forum that talked with mdwatts will ever forget him.


    sympathies to mdwatts family and friends.

    Rest in peace.
    Gentoo
    folding@home: 36480

  6. #66
    Join Date
    Jul 2002
    Location
    near the pine trees
    Posts
    2,468
    Originally posted by Fryguy8
    PS. somewhat strange that no one had any idea he was sick at all? Usually things like that creep out at least a little bit?
    when he was still well enough to sit down and email, in one of his emails to me he said that he didnt want people saying how sorry they were all the time, because he got enough of it in person.

    --gehidore
    windows get broken, penguins don't get sucked into jet engines --gehidore
    Community help posting guidelines.
    || DSL || Kanotix || FreeBSD
    || dillo || JL FAH team ||

  7. #67
    Join Date
    May 2003
    Location
    Australia
    Posts
    331
    Words cannot explain how sad I am to hear this. He has helped me many times including one of my first questions (as another user account...) was answered with just a link to G4L nothing else....

    You will be very missed here

    Thomas
    I love Linux
    Registered Linux user #318372

  8. #68
    Join Date
    May 2003
    Location
    Some Teritories
    Posts
    367
    Speechless
    _________________________
    Registered Linux User #314213
    _________________________
    Desktop 1 : P4 3.2G HT 2GB TWINX CORSAIR 2X120GB S-ATA NV7800GT- Ubuntu 7.04 - Feisty Fawn
    Desktop 2 : P4 2.4G 512MB SDRAM 60GB IntelGMA - Slackware 11 - Fluxbox

  9. #69
    Join Date
    Sep 1999
    Location
    Santa Cruz, CA, USA
    Posts
    1,212

    A tribute Scots style...

    My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
    My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer -
    A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
    My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

    Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North
    The birth place of Valour, the country of Worth;
    Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
    The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

    Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow;
    Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
    Farewell to the forrests and wild-hanging woods;
    Farwell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

    My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
    My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer
    Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
    My heart's in the Highlands, whereever I go.


    Fair winds and following seas mate!
    One by one the penguins steal my sanity...

    Vanpooling now...

  10. #70
    Join Date
    Jan 2003
    Location
    Zurich, Switzerland
    Posts
    2,657
    I'm very sad to read these news, but yet I'm calm as I somehow felt that coming. <sigh>

    I really hope there will be an address published where we can send cards of condolence to. I absolutely want to send a card from Switzerland to let his family and friends know how far Mike's words reached although his disease imposed limits on him. I hope as many international users as possible will participate.

    "What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."

    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

  11. #71
    Join Date
    Nov 2000
    Location
    Kongsberg, Norway
    Posts
    3,572

    Unhappy

    My deepest condolences to his family and friends.

    We planned on a get-together in Toronto early June this year, but it fell apart for lack of response/interest amongst the GTO members...
    Really wish I still could have made it as he didn't sound too "out-of-shape" at that time, but we kinda agreed on 'next time I was in the area' .... so his hair would have grown back

    Good bye Mike, you will be missed!
    Linux User #181509

    * It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on this planet
    has ever come up with the phrase "as pretty as an airport" *
    -- Douglas Adams --

  12. #72
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Location
    toronto
    Posts
    6
    Originally posted by bproffitt

    Mike did not have much in terms of a family here in Toronto. He only had his step mother and a group of about 4 loyal friends ( yours truly included).
    He has a few great aunts in North Carlolina, and a few more aunts and cousins in England, and that's all.
    Currently I do not have their address or know if they have an email address, however should I get this information I will let you know.
    I'm sure that Mike would not have wanted to hear of how bad everyone feels about his passing, although it is painfull to all of us who knew him personally, Mike would have liked to hear the good things in Life itself - and of course how great Linux is - one of his true loves in life.

    Wasylk







    Naturally, I am stunned by this information, having just returned from a weekend camping trip. I am endeavoring to contact Mike's family to confirm this news and find out what ways we as a community could express our condolences on behalf of Mike.

    When I have more information for you, I will post it in this thread and in a front page announcement.

    In the meantime, I think a more appropriate forum for this discussion will be /dev/random, because of the wider audience there.

    Peace,
    Brian Proffitt

  13. #73
    Join Date
    Jan 2003
    Posts
    127
    Thank you Mike for your contribution to the world.

    My condolences to everyone that knew Mike personally.

    I am sure you are in goods hands now.

    Thank you

    Ben
    Last edited by daYz; 08-30-2004 at 09:31 AM.
    Use HOME and END to jump to the beginning and the end of a line

    Use TAB to autocomplete directorynames, filenames and commands.

    The RPM server: rpmfind.net

    Create an RPM, Slackware or Debian package from a program that you compile and install from source: CHECKINSTALL

    EVERYTHING you need to know to SECURE Linux

  14. #74
    Join Date
    Mar 2003
    Location
    Southern California
    Posts
    470
    There is not much more I can say that hasn't already be said by everyone else. Although I have not been here too long, it has been long enough to have had you help me on many occasion. You will be dearly missed.
    "Cluelessness - There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots." -- Despair 2005 Calendar

    "Life is pleasant. Death is Peaceful. It is the transition that's troublesome." --Isaac Asimov

  15. #75
    Join Date
    Sep 2003
    Location
    Rochester, MN
    Posts
    3,604
    Originally posted by MMYoung
    I reckon God needed a Linux guru in heaven.
    Yep, it looks like heaven went open source.

    Couldn't have picked a better person to help make the switch either.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •