August 30th
Bad news to start the day with! This word
from PotSmoke, the patient but long suffering rock behind
FHCF. It's been a long struggle for him, but today......
In 1999 we started what is known as FHCF,
we've now been here for 5 years as a Norwegian group doing our own
thing.
It's been 5 hard years with lots of work and
many disappointments, members i thought i knew left for other bigger
groups while others were just talking crap and promised things they
never could keep.
There is no secret that everything has to
come to an end, and this is the day i announce that FHCF is soon no
more. When this text is being written the FHCF release counter shows
1939 releases (on my harddrive that is), we can't stop yet so we'll
have to continue until we've passed 2000 releases.
This break
has been planned since early 2004 but i've been thinking about it
for some years, we just wanted to pass 2000 releases and disappear,
to end with some style at least. It's sad, for me and for some of
the members. We've been here for 5 years, shared many fine moments
together and even shared our inner thoughts.
I've met many of
the members in real life, some i've spoken with on the phone
regularly afterwords while others i've only met on IRC. Even though
i've only met some of the guys on IRC i must admit that they mean
alot to me, i even think some of them are the most wonderful people
i've ever met. The way they think and act is just lovely.
Why
do i really end it all now? There are many reasons, too many to
mention them all but i'll try to tell you why it's all over. Some of
the reasons are:
Members leaving for other groups while i
spent all my time and energy on those people.
People i helped for
a period of time (weeks/months) writing tutorials and explaining
things and all they do is dissapear one day without a word (or join
other groups).
People promise things they can't
keep.
We've changed, we don't have the same goals
anymore and we all have different interests.
Some of us has lost
a big part of their real life.
Some of us are just fighting all
the time.
Some became mentally fucked up.
We're tired of all
the lameness and all the people stealing other groups
releases.
We hate 0day and they hate us for not going
0day.
People don't appreciated our work and think all software
should be free while we don't.
People expect us to crack what
they want, when they want, while they don't even know the word
"thank you".
That other groups don't want to help you or share
information because you aren't a member.
All the idiots in varius
cracking channels.
All the crack sites that are full of banners,
popups and other shit.
We're dead tired and burnt
out.
Pesonally i haven't had fun cracking the last 2-3 years, i
just did it to make FHCF hard to beat for the next Norwegian group
:)
I could probably go on forever, but the main reason i quit
is because i'm dead tired and burnt out, and because no one likes to
crack anymore. We almost have no members left either :(
It's
possible that www.fhcf.net will be updated from time to time if
there are some news, but don't expect much news from a dead
group.
Looks like "all" the FHCF people, members, ex-members and
the people in #Cracking.no will have a gathering next year. Don't
expect any computers there.
I will like to end with a few
thanks.
Thanks to ZOR, one of the few that helped us a little
bit with his site.
Thanks to all the members that made FHCF
possible, i know i've been an asshole at times and not being the
easiest person to work with, i'm very sorry.
Thanks to ElWolfie
for running a rock solid BNC, for running bots when we didn't have
any and simply for being a nice guy.
Special thanks to Sven and
Alx who i think are the two most brilliant people i've met on the
net. It's not nice mentioning two people when many has been nice to
me, i love you all but those two are special. I wish you all good
luck, you really deserve it.
Thanks to Bertil who made the
cleanest distro page ever, you can find it here:
http://bertil.redexmedia.net/fhcf/
#Cracking.no will remain,
but the subject har changed.
This is the last line, and now
it's over...
I'm sure he'll be fine after a good rest and a
couple of decent night's sleep! Sorry to see the end of it Potsmoke
but it's been a great project and one you should be bloody proud
of! You did some fantastic work that's been appreciated by
people the world over. And you put Norwegian crackers on the
map! All the best!!!
Finally today, a few interesting links Terry
Blount passed on from his Crack Talk Newsletter (yep, a few
other things have been around on the net as long as Zor's Crack
News)
For all the new gmail users (thanks to discussion
board members who passed invites on) there are already a fair few
Gmail add ons and utilities. The place to find them all is here.
Papernapkin.net is an address you can use if
you're pestered by someone for your email address. Just tell
them anyname@papernapkin.net and the
person will get a not so kind rejection letter.
And if you just HAVE to have all the codecs
available for video files, you can't go past the mega codec pack. All of 44 mb!
Thanks Terry. If you want to get hold of
Terry give him a call at cracktalk@gmail.com
