meet up sometime. Life has it ups and downs, changes of direction and
surprises. It's kind of like leaving home for school, work, or
travel, you know you always have a place to come back to, a place
called home. So hopefully we'll see you back again!
On Jul 2, 6:41 pm, Mara <mara....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Glen,
> Thank you once more. And Success!
> I know that you will make it happen easily!
> maravilha
>
> Em 02/07/2010 20:57, Lokkerman escreveu:
>
>
>
> > Oh Dear!
> > I didn't know it would be so emotional and so soon; wow love you mate
> > \o/ and as you know I am with you always and always will be.
> > Guys I need your views on how we host and fairly quick please?
> > What for example would I need?
> > Lokks
> > <3 VF
>
> > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Paul Garfunkel
> > <paulgarfun...@gmail.com <mailto:paulgarfun...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Dear Glen,
>
> > Thank you for helping all of us to further the "hobby". I can safely
> > say I benifited from you direct help on many occations and I can see
> > where you are coming from since I when through the same thing when I
> > gave up xbox 5 years ago. The real world is cool too!
>
> > I find that this hobby is less obsessive for me, although I have been
> > know to stay up late spliting wav files and making dts cds to listen
> > to in my RL the next morning!
>
> > Well enough about me. We will add your name to the wall next to Mojave
> > (although the idea that you were Mojave crossed my mind once or
> > twice).
>
> > Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent & Glen.
>
> > Go in peace my brother.
>
> > On 7/2/10, Richard <zoanne...@yahoo.co.uk
> > <mailto:zoanne...@yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
> > > Glen
>
> > > You'll be missed. Your positive attitude, and always willing to
> > help, helped
> > > me during the early days when i joined "The Hub", and more
> > recently with
> > > protection for the Blogs, etc.
>
> > > You'll be missed, but we all have our own journeys to make in
> > this life, and
> > > at times, we need to make "life changing" decisions for our own
> > good.
>
> > > I wish you well, and hope everything works out as you hope.
>
> > > Richard (OD)
>
> > > Boy...I don't know how to start this....I'll just get straight
> > to it.
>
> > > Significant life changes have occurred for me such that I am
> > leaving ALL
> > > file sharing and surround/hi-res hobby activities, with
> > immediate effect.
>
> > > No, I'm not in trouble. It's the exact opposite. Something
> > wonderful has
> > > happened. (No, I'm not having a baby, nor have I married
> > (yet)...keep
> > > guessing...)
>
> > > The reason is that I have resolved to pursue a dream in real
> > life which is
> > > far, far greater than anything I could ever do in the surround
> > world. It
> > > involves a likely brilliant career, a completely different way
> > of life and
> > > set of values, and is essentially a 'new' life.
>
> > > I was committed to this community and wanted to give it what I
> > knew it's
> > > been always needing, but has never happened. I was working on
> > something that
> > > would have been the biggest thing in the surround world (or at
> > least the
> > > surround 'file sharing' world, which is maybe about 2/3 the size
> > of the
> > > greater surround scene anyway).
>
> > > I might as well 'announce' it now, since it's not gonna happen
> > anyway.
>
> > > I was planning, for over a year, a gazelle-based (� la
> > What.CD) BitTorrent
> > > tracker for surround and hi-res music - the first true
> > audiophile tracker
> > > and ultimate go-to place for sharing and finding anything in our
> > beloved
> > > formats. It was my big project, I put all my resources and
> > skills into the
> > > thing and spent considerable time planning and making
> > preparations and
> > > networking throughout the surround/file sharing worlds, to make
> > the dream
> > > happen.
>
> > > It was not just going to be a torrent tracker, but it was to
> > have a public
> > > DDL release blog for outreach (serving as a mojave replacement
> > at same
> > > time), and a massive internal (and a mirrored external) audio
> > wiki on all
> > > the formats where I would collate all the obscure info and
> > knowledge into
> > > one place and make it a massive resource, so that instead of endless
> > > repeated discussions on the same topics happening all the time,
> > people could
> > > simply browse the wiki and just learn all it there. Some of the
> > completed
> > > pages I have athttp://groups.google.com/group/surroundsound/web.
> > > Anyway...enough of all this, you get the point. It was going to be a
> > > paradise, where nothing we could imagine wasn't possible...
>
> > > And for ages I wanted to tell you all about it, but because of
> > what turned
> > > out to be endless months (and in the end, a whole year) of
> > delays due to
> > > what I know was fate standing in my way and not letting it
> > happen (it's a
> > > loooooooooooooong story, it's longer than longcat!), I didn't
> > want to excite
> > > people, and then only disappoint them with what at times felt
> > like a tunnel
> > > with no light at the end of it. I had to keep the news all to
> > myself, and
> > > just a few of you, for the good of the group. But once ready,
> > the site was
> > > going to be our new home, replacing this primitive google group
> > and the -
> > > I'm sorry, but we all know - inferior file sharing method that
> > is the hub.
>
> > > In truth though, the project and all the things associated
> > with it, was a
> > > burden for me, a thorn in my side - something stubbornly
> > standing in the way
> > > of what I knew all the time, was what I should really be doing
> > with my life.
>
> > > Recently, a few catalysts have played out in my life, and my
> > love for my
> > > RL dream has overcome even the passion I (now past tense: had)
> > for the
> > > tracker project, and if you've known about my passion for 'TS'
> > [the codename
> > > for the project] over the last year, you would agree that this
> > is something
> > > pretty huge happening in me.
>
> > > And it's been very emotional.
>
> > > I know some of you will be disappointed to hear that I'm
> > 'leaving', but at
> > > the same time I think all of you understand what's best for a
> > person in
> > > their life. I now have peace, and am happy, but life's all about
> > sacrifices
> > > for the sake of what you want to really do, and I've now taken
> > the right
> > > choices regarding this.
>
> > > I'll still be here, i.e., logged into the hub, I just can't be
> > expected to
> > > have any obligations or expectations any more, and I will have
> > extended
> > > absences (from the hub) too. And I'll no longer be checking the
> > google
> > > group, i have de-subscribed and also won't be checking the
> > vf.surround gmail
> > > address regularly either. The best way to contact me (if it is
> > an important
> > > matter) would be via PM in the hub. The most important thing for
> > me now is
> > > to spend as little time in here as possible and to not be
> > obligated to
> > > anything here.
>
> > > So if I do not respond to hub PMs immediately, or at all, please
> > > understand that it is because I am either away or too busy to
> > chat. It's not
> > > because I'm being rude. My life has changed and so have my habits.
>
> > > My role has now changed to 'casual surround/hi-res enthusiast and
> > > listener', and even then, ONLY when I can spare the time (like
> > when I'm
> > > relaxing and having time off)...from my busy rl schedule and
> > commitments.
>
> > > However...There's one other 'big thing' that I have been
> > working on, with
> > > the help of a few unnamed key people (which will indeed affect the
> > > [u]entire[/u] surround/hi-res world, not just the file sharers),
> > which in
> > > contrast I intend to see finished (and look forward to doing
> > so). This is
> > > because it is something I can 'finish off', and then be done
> > with it, as
> > > opposed to an ongoing commitment of time and care.
>
> > > And this: is the cracking of the SACD format (I think most of
> > you know
> > > from my hints in previous months of this anyway - as in, DVD-A
> > was cracked,
> > > and SACD is finally going to be cracked too - a method for
> > copying the
> > > ACTUAL files off the disc (and then you can convert the DSD
> > files to PCM via
> > > software that I've already released), and even, a method for burning
> > > 'SACD-R' on a normal blank DVD, and being able to play it back
> > in your SACD
> > > player - which I hope eventually can work on the majority if not
> > all SACD
> > > players - it works on a few so far, with the method we're using
> > - 'so far'.
> > > I've been fighting to get SACD cracked for two years now(!),
> > quietly, but
> > > thankfully this dream CAN become a reality. The Oppo PCM method
> > was just an
> > > interim method since development in SACD's cracking was so slow,
> > until more
> > > recent times.
>
> > > So though I am no longer an uploader or file sharer, I look
> > forward to
> > > being able to back up my own SACDs and I know you'll also
> > appreciate it very
> > > much.
>
> > > I also was slowly working on other projects/goals, like a
> > DVD-A watermark
> > > defeating system and open-source MLP encoding being implemented
> > into the
> > > DVD-A tools project so that people wanting full res surround MLP
> > > home-authored DVD-A discs no longer have to pirate
> > discWelder/surcode in
> > > order to do it.
>
> > > All these things are possible, if others want to make the
> > effort in making
> > > these things happen. The role I have played in many of these things
> > > (ripping, authoring, encoding/decoding of the of the dvd-a/sacd
> > formats)
>
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