Arigato

Damm you Dam you to hell, You raise me from a newbie to a know-it-all, an know this. What the hell am I suppose to do now? I first joined linuxnewbie as a oracle recruiter, I am now a Unix sysadmin with a dual-display enlightenment wm linux box and a personel SGI os to play with. Where do I go from here? What will we do with out you? How will I make it , who will i yell at about religion gun control and those worthless liberal democraps? Oh well, I quess that I am all grown up now. I quess that my next step is into the relm of literacy. Maybe I will learn to type and spell at the same time.

Lots of huggs and kisses to you and your wife,

Goodluck in the furture.

slayer17 :)

This is the same crap internet.com pulled over at Hardware Central. God I hate that company. Best of luck.

[ 21 May 2001: Message edited by: PostCode ]

I... I feel lost. I feel like the world has come to and end and there really is no tommoro. Damn internet.com! Damn them for taking away our loved ones. Who do they think they are? Just walk into our lives and take take take but never give :(

:eek: :confused: :eek:

:(

Good luck and all that smeg. cya arround

I can't explain it, but this announcement has moved me to the point of tears. Over the past year and a half, this site and its community have meant an incredible amount to me. Though I ventured out to other sites and bulletin boards, this is the only one I've come back too. The people and atmosphere here are amazing. To me, LNO has been a home, a place to go in boredom, frustration, sadness, and happiness. I've shared good times and bad with the people here, and I feel like something important will be lost with Sensei's departure.

I can't say I didn't see it coming. When LinuxGirl left, I knew things were on the way out.

Come to think of it, the above is a pretty good reason for being moved to tears. This place has been a place of warmth, security, learning, and growth, but like all good things, this too must come to an end.

Goodbye, Sensei, and Godspeed. I wish you well in the rest of your life.

Best of luck, Sensei. If you've achieved one thing with linuxnewbie.org, it has been to create an atmosphere for newbies (especially from Windows) that is helpful, friendly, and most importantly, encouraging.

Cheers.

If you guys are looking for a newbie-friendly Linux Web site, (in light of LNO's cloudy future) try Linux Orbit. It's a desktop site, mostly KDE, Gnome & the rest, but quite newbie-centric.

Oh, well... my $0.02

<formal bow> Good bye Sensei. You will be greatly missed, that I am sure of. As it must be, we the linux newbies must master our world ourselves and move on, and teach newbies of our own.

You have my upmost respect, and I hope your real life is as good as it sounds. I may see you one day, as my plans seem fixed around florida lately. As they say in disneyland.. it's a small, small world.

I have no doubt that this site will continue it's course relativly unscathed, but you know how these things change... it will never be quite the same. We are linux users though, and are resilant. If this site dissapears, then another will grow from it's ashes.


...


Farewell, Sensei, thank you, thank you so much for all you have given.

....and I just got here. Wish you luck!


May the Penguin follow you everywhere.

Before sensei@LNO will be cutoff soon, I would like to say Good luck on everything you want to do to your self and to your family!! And before this site will also be cutoff (I hope not!) I want to say something even if nobody is interested on this, but you know when I start using linux I've ask for help on some of linux forums and linux irc channels but they're not as helpful as this community has, maybe Im just asking a very basic questions that those 3ll!73, linux guru would'nt mind or maybe it will just waste their time if they'll answer my question. But this site is very helpful it does'nt matter on the level of the question from the very basic to advance, this community will hand-in-hand in sharing their opinions. Hope this community and this kind of community will continue forever.

Sensei thank you very much for having this virtual community.


reiner


sorry english is'nt my native language...

Thanks, Sensei. Best of Luck.

Damn this sucks.
Sensei, I am deeply saddened by your and our loss. Your absence will be felt by all of us.

You have done one hell of a job with LNO and I'm sure you will easily land on your feet. I commend you for the work you have done in bringing your vision to fruition. This was surely no trivial effort and I hope the LNO community can hold together in your absence.

Good luck and may God be with you.

[ 21 May 2001: Message edited by: Stackrat ]

Argh...I feel like I am going to cry.

All the best to you, Sensei.

Sensei,

thanks for all the help and the best of luck to ya... Even though I am a BSD aficionado now, learning Linux with your site helped me to evolve and even get a better job.

I have this funny feeling LNO will either be:

(1) Dissolved
(2) Renamed
(3) Totally revamped

I know sometimes I gave ya a hard time about stuff needing to be updated and changed, but that being said... There's no reason why you can't start another Linux site!

Enjoy your vacation, you've earned it.

Hasta la vista...

Well I haven't been here nearly as long as most people, but I've grown to love it. Sensei you did an amazing job...better than any of us could ever have done. I thought I'd never see the day...

Good luck, and have fun on that honeymoon! ;) You'll be sorely missed.

All I can say is NO! I won't have this. I've ben posting here, talking here, helping others, being helped by others, and I owe everything I am to Sensei. This is all because of you Sensei. This just isn't LNO without you. I really could care less about some money hungry corporate .COM *******S! They are not in it for the love of the game. They are not in it for the people. We are talking about people here. Not numbers, nut fscking dollar signs. In a few months this group of scum-sucking corporate's will have their slimey banners everywhere, and who knows how long before they go under with the rest of the failure .COM's. Sooner or later, money runs out. And seeming as that is all that these corporates care about, things will never be the same. So I guess this isn't just Sensei's farewell, but I will also be stepping down from my part in this whole scheme. I have no more need to come here now. I would like to wish those of you that I have grown close to a happy life, and easy installations. ;) This is no place for LinuxNewbie's without the Sensei. Hope you all survive out there. Goodbye. :(

[ 21 May 2001: Message edited by: XxMaCaBrExX ]

Good luck Sensei. Sorry to see you go. This is my favorite site on the net.

I don't think these dot com types "get" Linux. First, they dump Patrick Volkerding and Slackware, now this. They obviously don't know what they have here with LNO.

:confused:

im terribly sad to see you go, i started my linux lifestyle with this site, and with all of the members which shared in my experiences...thank you sensei..i have learned more from your teachings than from any other. you have always been honest and fair...even with stiles during the election, which i will admit was tough....but thats what made lno great...its one of the last places on the net where people can have discussions about a variety of topics and not be put down for they're opinions....you will be missed...

can we get a group hug? ;)

Sensei,

I want to thank you for all you and your site have done. I can remember the days of Redhat 6.1 on my old pentium 200, fighting it out, and searching the forums here for the answers (which I found, thank you all). LNO has also been a site that has helped me get my job I've had for a year now with a webhosting company, and has helped me to help others out as well (mandrakeexpert.com).

Again, thank you so much for all the help and assistance, and thanks also to all that have posted such useful advice over the last year and a half. I really mean that.

FroggySwamp
aka
[email protected]

<Bow and salute>Good luck.</bow and salute>

Please post....you will be greatly missed.

redline

:(

How did this happen so quickly without me knowing? I feel robbed.

LNO has always been associated with Sensei (and LinuxGirl until she was forced out). It's hard to imagine it any other way. I can't imagine what LNO is like without Sensei. I don't want whoever that takes over your position to take the name Sensei. It wouldn't feel right. This site seemed to echo the type of person you are, always willing to help. You had given us our freedom when posting. In my mind, you had ranked higher than Linus himself because you had a personality we could see, where as Linux was just a distant figure that created something we all enjoyed. If there were anything we could do to keep you here, I would jump at it without a second thought.

I'll feel better if you help us keep up with you as to what you will be doing.

Don't let the bastards get you down. :mad:

OK personally I am reading all these posts, and I would suspect Sensei is too. So knock off the crap "Oh Sensei we will miss you so much... hey everyone come on over to linuxnewbie.lookalike.org!" You jerks are ->lame<-

As far as I'm concerned "This is the house that Sensei built!" Unless Sensei tells me outright or via one of his trusted moderators that the the new management is scum and not to be trusted, then I will stick around to make visitors to Sensei's house feel welcome.

You da MAN Sensei! But Al Gore still sucks!

Well Sensei, hate to see you go but as we say in the Navy, Fair Winds and Following Seas Shipmate.

I have one last request if you would please indulge me. I most likely will not make HAL any time soon so I was wondering if at all possible before you offcially clock out if you could grant me Sr. Grasshopper Status. It's a small request that if denied I would understand.

Anyhow, make yourself known and keep up posted on your status. And when are you and the missus gonna have a little Sensei?

Take care Bro'

It'll be absoultly horrid if LNO get's disolved! This site has helped me a LOT to throw off the noose of Microsoft and enter the Linux world. It's sad to see you go Sensei-san! Don't let the miserable hosts get you down and best of skill getting a new job..maybe you could get something doing web admin. :D

Sensei, your site has helped me more than I can ever express. I was so interested in Linux but had no idea of what I was getting into. Your generosity in creating this site for people like me made learning Linux so much easier. LNO would never have been possible if it were not for you. Thank you so much for your dedication and hard work. Good luck with finding a job and I hope you and LinuxGirl have a long, happy life.

I'm in no position to start a new BBS which is the new generation LNO but I will definitely be there working hard if any of our LNOers will create the kind of community touch that make the LNO great. I'd not even survive the Linux if I hadn't have the help of LNOers and NHFs.... So yeah.. so long Sensei and just let us know where you are and we will be there.......

That's freaking sucks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

Thank you sensei for this community. I love it even better than Linux.

Good luck and see you soon on this board ...

Pierre

Thanks Sensei !

Even though that iam not long hanging out on this board i have already got a lot of help from the people on here !
Iam really grateful that this board helped me in continuing with Linux . Everytime i didnt know any further somebody here did know the answer .

Thanx Sensei - thanx to everyone !
I wish you all the luck - and enjoy your honeymoon !


David

Remember when "TiredMnInNeedOf Sleep" alias "tminos" first showed up? If you can measure the accomplishments of the site by a single guy, this one brings tears to my eyes.

Thanks for bringing this site into being. I've got a bunch of books, but I've learned more from lurking, searching, and occasionally asking questions here than I could have understood from my late night reading.

Also, when I've been able to contribute a reply, it has often been by finally being able to relate a real-world situation to something I have read in those books, so I'm learning either way.

Best wishes to you both and I hope you have a mild Hurricane season. (I remember those pics)

Love,
Tom

[ 22 May 2001: Message edited by: camelrider ]

All the best for the future, best site I visit (content and people). Have a great honeymoon ;)

Wow, what a shocker :eek: . No matter what happens to this site in the future, just remember you made a huge contribution to the Linux community and we all thank you for that. Good luck in future endeavors Sensei.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

Err, I mean thanks (guess it's not REALLY the end of the world, but still)!

If this thread is going to be used as a petition, my signature is located below. ;-)

:eek: Real life can suck sometimes.

I can't say enough thank you Sensei for this site. I had been using and loving Linux for some time before seeing this site, but LNO made me love Linux even more and made me learn a whole bunch of new things about Linux. You don't even believe what kind of astronomical phone bills (yes, crappy dial-up connection) I started getting after coming to LNO.

Sensei, I'll miss you. Best of luck for you, whatever you start doing after this!
:( :( :( :(

Wow. I just started surfing this site again after about a year. Do you get to keep your screen name?

I won an LNO tshirt last year. Maybe now I can auction it off on ebay for big $$$. Kidding!

Maybe I should drink my coffee before posting... :o

BogoMIP :eek: I didn't know some people had the same genius as me :p Bogo is mah name for anything I don't use TBOF for.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the hard work you and the other regular posters put into this site!!!

You can take solace in the fact that you helped bolster a great movement, and that your hard work has made the linux OS accessible to so many disenfranchised winblows users!!!

I wish you luck and great success in your future endeavors. Good fortune will be a given for you and linuxgirl.

Ave atque et fortuno bonus frater!!!!

I can't say I am really shocked, as I feared this day would come
when you announced that you were selling LNO. I wont repeat what has been said already as it goes without say, but I would like to comment on why I think this site is great. Just over two years ago, Sensei, you started this site with a goal in mind.
It was an idea to present Linux to new users in a friendly and understandable way and to help them with problems in a non-judgmental fashion. As the community grew, that piece of yourself that you imparted to this site, carried into the new members, to make this site a fun place where people could come and have questions answered, without being intimidated by more experienced users. Add to that, great NHF's, interesting articles, "Sensei's Log", and some very heated and interesting discussions in the forums, makes this place what it is and why we all love it.
Good lick and all the best.

Scott

Wow. What a news item to stumble in on!

You'll be missed, but take comfort in the fact that LNO will go on, and you will be forever remembered in history. Not bad, eh?

Say hello to yer wife for me! I hope she realizes what a special guy she's got with her right now. :D

~ Siskie

Best of luck to you and Linuxgirl. If LNO survives, you will always have that to be proud of. If not, sucks for all of us. Thanks for all you've done.