Arigato

What a sad, sad day :(

Best of luck to you and LinuxGirl and thanks for creating this great site!

You are an inspiration ;) and the site will be a poorer place without you. Or something. I know that it has given me many hours of fun and help.

Good luck dude

/me bows
thank you for the gift of this wonderful site
i guess i will have to continue my training without you

Arigato gozaimus, Sensi-san :(

Damn, hadn't even thought of that.

Oss, oni gashi mas.

[ 22 May 2001: Message edited by: YaRness ]

This is indeed a sad day.
About a year ago I when I first started to use Linux I was referred to this site by a friend. I feel that, thanks to your great work and the community that surrounds it, I have have come a LONG way with this OS.
Sensei, I never spoke to you personally, but as many LNO users I realised what an amount of work you have put into this site.
Today LNO has lost its mystic - today is a sad day.


May you live in interesting times, Sensei.

:(
This is a sad day for the Linux Community.
:(
Sensei, you are a good man and will be sorely missed. You have done a great thing with Linuxnewbie.org and I can't think of a way that this site sould be the same without you. (It's still not the same since Linuxgirl left).
:(
I can only hope that whatever you get yourself into in your next endeavor, that it will make you happy.

:(
This is a sad, sad day.

:(

well good luck to you sensei, i have been going here for a long time and although not making much contributions i have selfishly taken much from this this site and its community :D

but i do have something which i really would like to know .. is who owns this site now?? and who pays for it?? and who will be in charge?? making all the decisions, i personally want this site to go on and keep it doing what you intended it to do, and helping out the newbies in the linux community ...
thank you

This site helped me get started on Linux. Now the sysadmins come to me for Linux help! Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication building this great experience.

Thanks also to the patient and skillful contributors who helped me along the way.

- schof

Welp, no idea really what to say..but, now that you've got some time off, I guess we'll actually be seeing that army of mini-sensei's. (some odd reason I'm picturing thousands of little blue smurfs that know karate)

Anyways good luck, hope to see you around.

As everyone is saying. Good Luck and God speed. Thank you for all the help you have provided. Best wishes!!

Who owns the rights to LNO? Why couldn't this site (or a new very similar site) have be run using a pay-pal system like penny-arcade? There are aparently plenty of loyal LNO members. Well best of luck to you and your family in whatever you do Sensei.

[ 22 May 2001: Message edited by: anti_seen ]

Darn it, three and a half pages later and the punchline I was hoping for never came. :(

14 months ago I got fed up with Windows when it crashed 4 times in half an hour. I downloaded Corel (of all things) and stumbled in here looking for help getting it to recognize my network card. In addition to learning that you have to turn off Plug-N-Play, everything I have learned about Linux (and a huge portion of what I've learned about computers in general) has been a direct result of this site.

Of course, the community and the people that come here are a gigantic part of this place, but Sensei, you made it a place where the people wanted to come and the community had a chance to develop. Thank you for the gift and blessing this site has been, and best of luck in your future pursuits.

(And [i]if[/] you ever start a new site, I think linuxdojo.com would be a good name. :D)

Wait Shane come back!!!
Please join me in wishing Sensei (Jason) and Linuxgirl well in thier new life and future endevors.
If not for you sensei and the others here @ LNO I would have been lost in a sea of confusion long ago, in my quest towards enlightenment in the ways of the linux blossum.
However now my confidence is starting to grow and I am learning more each day as I use Linux.
Many of us, Sensei would never have come to know the peace, and solitude, and oneness of the Linux Blossum if not for your hard work.
Anyway Linux is beyond way cool and you helped bring t to the masses, and make it atainable to the common man and woman.

Thank You,
Don (thescribe7)
Domo Arigato Sensei san!
Wa Kadi Linux
Wa Tashi Wa (Grateful?)

:eek: :confused: :mad: :( :) :D

This is, in all honesty, truly sad. I actually am emotional about this. This is one of the saddest internet-related moments ever.

I've been with this site for a long time, and I admit I left and lost hope when it started to grow large and loose some of the feel of the "old days." But I was always there, just browsing silently but I never left completely. I don't think I can. It's like a part of me now.

I don't like the whole internet.com thing... I didn't like it when it first happened. I do wish you two the best in life, and I owe you a large amount of thanks.

I may not have always been the most vocal or present member, but I've always been here... and always will. I would like to be kept abreast (if possible) if there are going to be any closings or transfers of the site. I do own my own business and am very comfortable with running large sites and the rest of the baggage that comes along with it... if it ever were to come to a full closing I would seriously consider buying/continuing this great site.
(I know it will probably be consumed by internet.com, but if/when the day comes they toss it aside, I would be more than willing to pick it up and dust it off.)

Again, thank you, and as I wipe a tear away... have to say goodbye.

Thank you for all your help! This site has helped me in too many ways to count :)

Best of luck in where ever life takes you next.

Sensei gets pushed out.

Sensei gets pushed out!?!?!!?!!!


I am outta here, and have already deleted LNO from my bookmark file. Will miss it.null

Thanks everyone....LNO will continue I wouldn't worry so much about that one.

I'll drink to the fact that you're drinking. Now who's going to be the next Sensei again? And do we actually refer to the new Sensei as Sensei?

Senei, linux girl
no more to help when i
find Kernal panic

dear internet dot com
your hiring pactices suck
may your windows crash

Sensei, linux girl
enjoy your honeymoon
we will miss you much

My mandrake 8 box
weeps like the willow in spring
'cause I got no skillz

i will fight the power
free software is the future
props to the homiez

word.


Good Luck, and thanks!

I've gotta say I'm really sorry to see ya go Sensei, and thanks for all that is LNO. I sincerely wish you the best in your endeavors, and hope we can all keep going in the same direction. Take care.

Sensei, like everyone else, I feel really bad about how things unfolded. But, as evidenced by all these posts, internet.com's loss will be someone else's gain (and then some). You have a terrific job reference -- this BBS.

I doubt that someone with your talents will be unoccupied for very long; probably depends more on what you want to do than anything else.

Maybe Bill got tired of all the M$ bad-mouthing that takes place here and bought off your boss. Oh well, what goes around....

SHUCKS!! :(

I just came back from a 4-day snorkelling trip and this happened?! :eek:

This is so shocking!!

Will really miss you Sensei!!

The problem is this; the internet is too traceable. The only problem is that advertisers think ads are useless when they have all this click-through counting stuff, and log software and such. They want us to buy something every time we click-through, or they feel like they are wasting their ad money. Unfortunately, most of us (or maybe just me) don't shop like that; we see something we like, come back to the site again a few days later, maybe look at it again from work, maybe go home and talk to the wife about it, and buy it two weeks later. And since we know the site by then, and visit it by typing in a url, nobody gets credit for a click-through purchase. This is despite having found a site through originally seeing it on a banner.

I've been extremely busy the last couple of days and haven't had a chance to visit here. This is quite a shock to wakeup to this early in the morning.

All the best to you Sensei and your wife. Hope the future has great plans for you.

Thank-you for all you have done for the Linux community. Without LNO, I would have been lost in a sea of Microsoft.

With appreciation
Michael Watts

why dont we all throw in a couple pennies and get sensei.net(.com is already taken :()

:eek:
Wow you leave for a couple of days and come back to this.

later.....

have a good time bro. this page helped my sorry buns out IMMENSELY. you will be sorely missed.

*bows honowabwy*

we will still be here to raise hell while you are gone. have a good time with your gal dude...that is what is most important.

DOMO...ARIGATO...

:cool:

Wow. I guess I'm not sure what to say. I've been away from Linux (well, computing in general) for awhile now. Call it a self imposed hiatus, if you like. But, upon returning, I find out that Sensei is gone? That's horrible news. I'm not sure what happened, and I can't seem to get any details from anybody on IRC, either. BTW Sensei, me and VVX are finally (un)Official #LNO irc chat monitors! We even have ops!!! :)

Honestly... I really feel bad about this. It seems rather strange to be emotional over an internet presence (or the removal of one) but, this is different. LNO is what STARTED me on Linux, as well as many other things. Since coming here, I have become the moderator of a linux forum @ www.helponthe.net which is just like LNO was WAY back when. Anyways, I almost feel a closer bond to Sensei, vvx, Alphageek, Sweede, tminos, and the like due to the realtime interaction w/ IRC. It's like losing a friend. I have too many fond memories of chatting with everyone, inc. Sensei...

You will be sorely missed, Jason. Best to you and the better 1/2. Hope that you will check in from time to time, or feel free to shoot me an email to say hi!

Best regards, my friend.

-Mike

This site has setup a good place for Linux
users of various experience to expand their
knowledge without the hostility and downtalk
that other sites are well known for.

I have personally gathered a great deal of
knowledge and extend my regrets to Sensei
for whatever has caused this.

Simply put,
Thanks. May your future endevors be fruitful.

~Guitarlynn

I've been comming to LNO for about a year now... a friend reccomended it to me then, we were both getting into linux... It's been a great site, always there with answers, if not in an NHF then on the boards here... The site will never be the same... You'll be missed greatly.
:rolleyes: :(

Hi --

There's been some speculation re: LNO -- mostly bad speculation -- and how internet.com plans on running the site. Since I'm the executive editor in charge of the site, I thought I'd put an end to the speculation.

First off, let me assure you that we are not looking at any changes to LNO. The site isn't going away, the BBS isn't going away, and the NHFs aren't going away. I'll be in contact shortly with the BBS moderators about continuing their work. In addition, I asked Jason to continue on as a participant in the BBS, and he declined.

Secondly, we recognize what a vital group of people encompasses the LNO audience, and we have no intention of changing the site. It may take a few days for us to get up to speed, as Sensei is a hard act to follow.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to address them to me directly at [email protected].

--Kevin Reichard
Executive Editor, Linux/Open Source Channel
internet.com
[email protected]

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Originally posted by KevinReichard:
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In addition, I asked Jason to continue on as a participant in the BBS, and he declined.
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Oh yes, and everyone should be willing to do their job for free after they are fired! :confused:

Give me a break! Sensei needs to put bread on our table... :p

you go girl! :)

:cool: LinuxGirl :cool:

[ 25 May 2001: Message edited by: FoBoT ]

Good to see you're still around and kickin Linuxgirl! It's been awhile!

hrrms...

LNO without Sensei? Is that even possible?!

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Originally posted by LinuxGirl:
<STRONG>Give me a break! Sensei needs to put bread on our table... :p</STRONG>

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I completely agree with LinuxGirl on this. Nobody can work for free if it's their source of income. Let's be real here. Most of us here comes to this site when we have time. Sometime I can't get here in a week or so. And I have no commitment here also. But Sensei must be here to take care of things. This little quote comes to mind.

Quote:

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Gardener: I've planted the fruits tree and all are good and well....

LandOwner: Well... I know you love your plants Gardener but I'm afraid that I don't have anything to pay you for it even though I make money selling those fruits.

Gardener: Are you firing me as a gardener?

LandOwner: I'm afraid so. But since you love so much of your plants, why don't you come here everyday and look after your plants. You don't actually have to do any work though. Just come here, look what I need to do and tell me and I will get someone to take care of you. So that I can continue to sell the fruits from these trees.

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I mean.. Come on... I'm even amazed that they have the guts to ask Jason to continue to support this board in volunteer basic.... :rolleyes: How do they sleep at night knowing this? :eek: Greedy bustards.. :mad:

I mean I love this board as much as the next guy does. But this BBS is built around community of helping each others under the leadership of Sensei.... Without many of us here on the BBS, we wouldn't be this way. So I have the confidence that where ever we go, there would be a community around us.... We can do this ourselves and we don't need Internet.com and a stinky name..... Whatever we choose another name, with the same help from many of us here and the leadership of Sensei, we can built a new community without much trouble.... We don't need a stinky domain name...

And if I were Jason and someone asked me to do the volunteer work for something I did as a paid job, I'd tell them to fsck themselves... :mad:

After reading the posts here and the article at Linuxplanet, I'd say..... FSCK YOU ..... :mad: :mad: :mad:

I remember when I used to frequent an automobile UBB called LS1.com. One day, the guy who made the website what it was, decided to leave. Well, a new guy came in saying "everythings going to be ok...nothing's goin to change...." very similiar to what I'm reading here. It then proceeded to go right down the crapper. Now, I, and almost all of the original members that made up the community, don't visit there anymore.

My take is this, you can't expect to fire the guy who made the website and community everything that it is, and expect there to be no backlash. The members of this site respect Sensei VERY much. I will not be surprised to see this site begin to degrade in the near future.

You just got rid of the heart-and-soul of this very community in the name of, I can only assume, the almighty dollar.

I can't wait to hear from the inevitable drone you replace Jason with to..oh, install UBB upgrades and lock the occasional controversial thread. I'm sure everyone will go on and get by.....but just remember that we reap what we sow Kevin.....