From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: My involvement in ALSA development effectively terminated. Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:06:56 -0500 Message-ID: <1139188016.2791.183.camel@mindpipe> References: <43E5D688.2020406@superbug.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <43E5D688.2020406@superbug.co.uk> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: James Courtier-Dutton Cc: Alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 10:42 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 3rd Feb 2006 my house received a power surge. It destroyed a > number of electrical items in my house. > One was the Central Heating system, and others included all my PCs. Why > don't surge protectors work? > After paying for the fixing of the Central Heating, I will not have > enough money free to purchase new PCs. > So, in effect, I now do not have any Linux PCs at my disposal, so I > cannot work on ALSA any more. I am sending this email from a work > laptop. I expect it will be about 3-6 months before I can purchase a > replacement Linux PC. > > So, this is just a heads up to tell you that any bug fixes or new > features that I might have been doing to ALSA will be considerably delayed. > > Kind Regards > > James James, That must have been one hell of a surge, to knock out your central heating systems. I lost a bunch of gear to a leaky roof not long ago including a circa 1983 IBM PC/AT in mint condition. Anyway, this really sucks. Do you accept PayPal donations? There are many, many, users out there whose hardware would be useless if not for your work - if even 10% put up a few bucks then you could probably replace all your gear. Did you lose any data or hardware donated by vendors? Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642