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Author: Sean Crist (Nuance Communications)
Email: kurisuto at panix dot com
Date: 2008-09-08 12:36:07
Subject: Re: Bad news
> Any hope of a resolution?
It is in progress, but several factors are making it difficult.
What happened is that there was an attempt by a sysadmin to improve security by changing the ownership and permissions on a lot of the project files. This broke a lot of things, because the programs no longer had the privileges to do what they needed to do.
It's not simple to fix; I don't have root privileges on the machine, so some things have to be fixed by a sysadmin. I'm in the U.S., and Ondrej is in the Czech republic; I communicate things to Ondrej and he puts in the requests with the sysadmins. The sysadmins have many things to attend to besides us. So the work flow is slow.
Add that to the fact that a lot of people travel in August (Ondrej was gone when the problem started, and then I was gone for most of the second half of August). So it's only been this last week that we were all back in front of our computers and could work on this at the same time.
I really apologize for the lengthy outage. It's too bad that this happened when we're so close to being done with Cleasby/Vigfusson, but we're working on it. Such is the lot of an unfunded project. I'm just glad that Ondrej was able to arrange the server space for us.
--Sean
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| Bad news |
Sean Crist |
Nuance Communications |
2008-08-08 18:10:41 |
| Re: Bad news |
Ondrej Tichy |
Charles University, Prague |
2008-08-21 11:32:59 |
| Re: Bad news |
Keith Edkins |
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2008-08-22 11:28:20 |
| Re: Bad news |
Sean Crist |
Nuance Communications |
2008-08-23 14:20:43 |
| Re: Bad news |
Keith Edkins |
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2008-09-08 09:20:15 |
| Re: Bad news |
Sean Crist |
Nuance Communications |
2008-09-08 12:36:07 |