Amigazone versus Merlancia

[weirdami]

So I got to wondering today what ever happened with that whole Merlancia/Amigazone merger thingy type deal with Merlancia being dead and all. The Amigazone website still has a banner shaped link picture to the Merlancia website, but that website is dead. And there's lots of dated (some REALLY) material on the amigazone website which it says is the "Web publicity presence for" Amigazone, even thought there's a tiny fonted line that says it was last updated this January. So, really, is Amigazone dead, too? Harvtastic's last post on here was in 2002. What happened to him?

[weirdami]

 :shrug: ??

[Amiduffer]

They dissapeared in a vortex of energy

They left with the wizard of OZ..

Seriously, there was some site, that showed pictures of the Merlancia offices, and it looked like a huricane went through them after homeless people had lived in there for a month. It was bizarre. It's a good mystery though, I hope someone can solve it.  :-)

[adolescent]

The bio page on Amigazone says updated July 1,2006.  I think Harv is still out there, but doing what is anybody's guess.  

Maybe Harv Laser is the new CEO of Amiga, Inc.  :-D

[weirdami]

what is anybody's guess.

I guess it's not maintaining the rest of the site (spam on the guestbook from before July 1, 2006), which makes me wonder if Amigazone is dead. The why is the question. The bigger question is if it was because of Merlancia. We know that Ryan bamboozled Haynie. Could he also have bamboozled Harv?

[cecilia]

Ryan killed amigazone.
which is a tragedy because of all the files that used to be there. a historic site killed by stupidity and selfishness. :destroy:

[weirdami]

Ryan killed amigazone.

Was there a press release about it? Ryan was big on press releases.

[OSS542]

I just spoke with Harv.

From Harv:

AmigaZone has NOT been killed off or shut down. Absolutely not. The system it runs on picked up a worm and was corrupted. We are working to repair the OS and have it back up within a week. Repeat: no one "shut it down" on purpose. It is an OS corruption and we are working to fix it.

[recidivist]

 Anyone else remember ROOMERS ?

  It looks like amiga people are so used to disappointment they can't wait to post the latest piece of bad news.

  I HATE worm/virus freaks ruing everbody's computing. If they were really smart  they would be making good money writing useful software.

[Piru]

AmigaZone has NOT been killed off or shut down. Absolutely not. The system it runs on picked up a worm and was corrupted. We are working to repair the OS and have it back up within a week. Repeat: no one "shut it down" on purpose. It is an OS corruption and we are working to fix it.

Oh dear, the joys of running old Apache.

Anyone running Apache 1.3.26 today is just asking for trouble.

[hrlaser]

Hi
This is Harv, founder of AmigaZone.

Let's put a stop to this rumor nonsense now.
No one shut down or killed off AmigaZone. It's been running continuously for 21 years.

The hardware it's running on was infested with a worm abouta week ago causing 100% CPU usage. Today, the system became more corrupted. We have taken it down and techs are working to fix it.

ANYTHING YOU READ TO THE CONTRARY FROM ANY OTHER SOURCE IS B.S.

We hope to have it back up and running within a week.

This depends on the degree of corruption to the OS and how much work it takes to repair it. If we can't repair it, we'll move it to new hardware and a newer OS. Simple as that.

ANYTHING YOU READ ANYWHERE TO THE CONTRARY ON THIS OR ANY OTHER SITE OTHER THAN MY OWN, OR HEAR OR READ FROM ANY OTHER SOURCE IS BALONEY. Do not believe it.

I don't want to hear any more about conspiracies or so-and-so shut it down or any other such nonsense. Get a life, people. AmigaZone will be back up when we have completed repairs. So stop the damn rumors.

Harv
AmigaZone Founder

[hrlaser]

cecilia wrote:
Ryan killed amigazone.
which is a tragedy because of all the files that used to be there. a historic site killed by stupidity and selfishness. :destroy:

This is pure and utter horsesh*t. The system AmigaZone runs on was corrupted by a worm. We are working to repair it. Stop dreaming up conspiracies. When we have it fixed, it'll be back up. It may take days or a week or more. That's the truth. I founded AmigaZone, and I run it and if you don't believe me, then you can kiss my shiny metal ass.

Harv

[hrlaser]

Piru wrote:

AmigaZone has NOT been killed off or shut down. Absolutely not. The system it runs on picked up a worm and was corrupted. We are working to repair the OS and have it back up within a week. Repeat: no one "shut it down" on purpose. It is an OS corruption and we are working to fix it.

Oh dear, the joys of running old Apache.

Anyone running Apache 1.3.26 today is just asking for trouble.

AmigaZone does not run on an Apache system. The publicity site, http://www.amigazone.com is on an Apache system at an ISP.

The AmigaZone service itself is on totally different hardware. Totally different OS. What it runs on, and any other proprietary details are no one's business.

The OS was hit by a worm a week ago and we've been trying to make it clean again. The actual AmigaZone service is currently down until we get it repaired. The publicity site, running on a totally different system is still up.

Yes the news section is stale. I have other things to do in life than maintain a free, public Amiga news source. Dig? The AmigaZone system itself gets a daily news feed but that system is currently down. Its publicity Web site is up. I don't know how much clearer I can make it.

There are no conspiracies, no "someone killed it off" no "someone bamboozled someone else." So just spend your time on things that actually matter in this world and stop dreaming up conspiracies and generating rumors. It serves no purpose, creates ill-will and is just bad Karma.

Harv
AmigaZone Founder

[hrlaser]

cecilia wrote:
(a bunch of nonsense followed by).. a historic site (followed by more nonsense)..

The files are safely backed up in at least half a dozen different places. No one killed anything. See my postings above.

This site, Amiga.org has gone down for periods. Aminet has gone down. eBay crashes. Name a site that doesn't have problems from time to time. This is modern technology and technology isn't perfect.

AmigaZone is under repair. The files are all safely stored. The Amiga "community" has unfortunately degenerated into a tiny group of people have nothing better to do with their lives than spead rumors and try to destroy reputations. This is sad, sadistic, unproductive, and unnecessary. Do you enjoy torturing small animals too?

AmigaZone will be back up when we get the OS problem fixed. Simple as that. It's my baby and I put my heart and soul into it for 21 years even though the Amiga community has degenerated into the sad, sick situation it's in now.

We're doing everything we can to get the service repaired and back online. It will not go "off the air" permanently until I decide it's time. This is not that time.

Comprendo?

Harv
AmigaZone Founder

[weirdami]

@hrlaser

Did you forget the password to your old account?