Gonna have to shut everything down before 2005

[Fozzie]

Policies at work are being put in place to monitor all non-build software.

As such I will be finally giving up all my borgage.

This will leave me with just the home boxen and the winter electricity bill has put paid to them too.

So as of the New Year Fozzie will be no more.

It's been fun and I have reached most of the goals I had set, it might not have sat well with some of you but I thought I was free to do as I saw fit with my boxen.

Keep up the good work, might see you on the flip side.

Foz/Shaun

[Mustard]

Sorry things are working out like this for you Fozzie, but it seems to becoming more a sign of the times in the commercial business world. While the companies are free to do what they want with their computer, it's rough on the person that was using them on team crunching as it really is a big change in their life. It takes a lot of time to babysit stuff, run interference with the network nazi's, etc. I hope you find something to take up the time..... something *you* like to do, not the honey-do list :) or something like that!! :)

And as you point out, the cost of doing many systems at home really starts racking up the bucks, and of course that racks up the spousal tempers too for some wierd reason. :)

So take care. Hopefully you will kep a few home crunchers going, just to stay in the swing of things on a project you really do enjoy. :)

[CaptainMooseInc]

Quit.

That's the best thing you can do.

Just quit the job and find another one specifically to let you borg computers again.

Do it...

You know you want to...

-Jeff
:D

[Chinasaur]

That's a drag for sure...but frankly I'm surprised there were no policfies prior to now. You got over big time :)

Still going to hang out even though you lose your "Godlike" status? :D Hope so :)



:cheers:

[ronbo54]

Sorry to hear that Fozzie, although I hope it's like previous times and you come back stronger than before :thumbs:

I at least hope you hang around here and cheer on those whose company policies don't <expletive deleted>

Fozzie was first to welcome me here and is a class act all the way :cheers:

Will especially miss the fine art of Muppet poking :Pokes: :fozzie:

Take care and stay in touch!!!

[Evilmoose]

Best of luck Foz.
Hope to see you in the forum, its been a better team with you on it. Borged boxen or not your still my favorite muppet.

[PY 222]

Hey Fozzie even though you have lost your machines, don't forget, you still have alot of friends in here.

You don't need machines to maintain your membership in Free-DC. We are a family and we would still love it if you would stick around.

[Scoofy12]

yep, its true. i joined Free-DC with a farm of 24 dual-processor machines at my tacit disposal (technically not mine, but i managed to work it into a project i was doing for a class, so i ran DF on them all the time to "test" my scripts... hehe. nobody else was using them anyway). after that semester i lost my excuse and one of the administrators (a student i knew) started wising up and advised me that policies were changing and i wouldnt be able to get away with it anymore, so that ended that.
then, hopelessly addicted to large numbers, i pimped all my roommates and friends to run DF and managed 10 or so machines for a while, until my friends got tired of messing with the client and more tired of my reminding them all the time if their clients went down :)

fortunately i still have my friends, even if not their machines... and i still have my friends at Free-DC even though i'm down to 1 machine on average :)

[Helix_Von_Smelix]

still trying to work out what to say. this must be a real blow to you. best of luck, and make sure you are still around in the forum.

[Dyyryath]

As several people here have already mentioned, we want you to hang around, machines or no machines!

It's always fun watching our members with ridiculously high output, but honestly, I've always been more entertained by your presence in the forums than by your crunching. :D

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

Darn it fozzie, fozzinate the BOFH, show him your BOFH Level III master Hax0r cert (passes fozzie said cert and toolz cd)
#bash/root> xkill -z9 -savage -vapourise policy.creator

*evil, evil, evil laugh & grin*

[MerePeer]

This will leave me with just the home boxen and the winter electricity bill has put paid to them too.

Maybe you could leave the home boxen plugged in as mini heaters...or...

How about...trade in the desktops for some laptops, bring them in to charge on the electricity at work, run offline until /dump ready/ then bring them home and run on battery for /dump & reload activity/.

We need the Foz!

[Fozzie]

Last day of crunching tomorrow.

All my D2OL and TSC nodes have been dumped over the last few days.

FAD nodes will be removed tomorrow and any unfinished wus exported back to the lappie.

I have 3 HT boxen not on the network so they will stay until I have to deploy them.

So it's Foz on FAD for now.

Keep up the crunching guys we are doing great.

[CaptainMooseInc]

sad to see you losing all your power...

It fits the story though. The Borg get all powerful, then they blow up and die :)...

You're not dying though, you're just now those couple of Borg who survived the blast and are floating in space. :)

-Jeff