Where's AlphaTech? He was cool!

[LimeiBook86]

I was away from the internet for a week and AlphaTech is gone? (or so I've heard) What happened? Is he ok? He helped me with most of my problems...
Can someone clear this up for me? Please reply...:(

[irmongoose]

Okay here it is: the last time he postedws.. 2 days ago.




irmongoose

[MacAztec]

Last i heard from him, he was helping me build a gaming pc!

Dang, i had a few questions too :(

[Over Achiever]

If you read the thread I posted...I was wrong and I apoligize. Alphas just taking some time off...he'll be back...

Lets hope so.

[LimeiBook86]

okey dokey! I hope he has a nice liitle vacation! :D :) :cool:

[SilvorX]

hmm, :S i wonder wha happened...

[Over Achiever]

Originally posted by SilvorX
hmm, :S i wonder wha happened...

Something about censors...go to the site discussions...thats where i found out. Queen Cobra apparently said Alpha was banned...then arn closed my thread and said that he was welcome back...otherwise i have no idea what happened. I'm thoroughly confused.

[MacMaster]

...I haven't seen him in a while either...:eek:

[MacMaster]

Last known post by AlphaTech...
Zero viruses on either any of my Mac systems or the pc's I have built. I make it a point to NOT setup email on the pc's since that is how the majority of viruses get transmitted in the pc world. I also make sure that my NAV definitions are up to date on my computers... I also don't open attachements unless I have specifically asked for the file (and get the file name before the email arrives). A moderate amount of caution and common sense will go a long way in keeping you virus free.

[drastik]

Well, I hope he isn't banned, rude he may be, thats why they call em Massholes (as in MA mass). Alphas cool, and he can help with problems, a little flame happy, but tension have been high after MacWorld and then .mac and now the powermacs, everybody needs a break.

[Royal Pineapple]

AlphaTech is gone for good
<rant>
he got fed up with all the newbies whining(his words not mine) and decided that it was high time to leave. i know this because i was chatting with him while he was making the decision.
he has logged out and says he will not come back. he will be elsewrer on the net if you have a desperate nead to talk to him you can just send him an email, i think it is in his porfile.

i feel that we have lost one of our most prolofic posters who always has something funny/useful/ occasionally (or often) rude to say.
some of us are glad he is gone while some of us feel that we have lost a helpful tech. but personally i beleve that he may someday return and bring back a little bit to spice into the forums once again. </rant>
-royal

[Taft]

Originally posted by Royal Pineapple
AlphaTech is gone for good
<rant>
he got fed up with all the newbies whining(his words not mine) and decided that it was high time to leave.

Wow! I never would have guessed he would have left over whining. Given all of the disagreements/battles/flamewars I've seen him in (and battled against him in :)), I would have hoped for a more grand exit. Not that I want or wanted to see him go.

This is a shocker for me.

Taft

[irmongoose]

I don't belive it. No, goddamit, no he can't be gone. No....



irmongoose

[Choppaface]

hæll ya! now the forums are 60% more readable, and 30% more free of stereotypes and mac-pc double standards :D

[Wes]

He was annoying sometimes, but it was fun when he opened up a can of whoop (hmm, uhh) ....butt on some unexpecting newbie. I will miss his claims of the Harley being the ultimate motorbike. Looks like the rumbler has riden off into the sun set.

[sparkleytone]

i, for one, am skipping the farewell parade. i regard him in much the same way as mischief. funny to a point, but mostly a nuisance and very rude. "newbie whiners" is a hilarious way of putting it, since i never considered anyone on this board more childish than he.

[arn]

I closed down another one of these threads because I don't think we should talk about why we liked or (especially) didn't like another user.

alphatech has chosen to depart, and let's just end it there... no need to be rude towards him.

arn

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by arn
I closed down another one of these threads because I don't think we should talk about why we liked or (especially) didn't like another user.

alphatech has chosen to depart, and let's just end it there... no need to be rude towards him.

arn
My thoughts exactly, he was just a poster in a forum, if he stays, leaves of returns who cares! It's not important. :rolleyes:

[jefhatfield]

first anonymous coward, then spikey, then kela, then joeyj, then john123, now alphatech!

i am geting lonely here being the only old poster besides eyelikeart

i can't see alpha staying away for long though

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
i am geting lonely here being the only old poster besides eyelikeart


aww...I feel so special that u included me in the old poster rating...he he he ;) :D

no worries...I may take a week away....or 2...but I'm not going anywhere ;)

[jefhatfield]

spikey, kela, and john123 were once the post leaders...but i don't know in which order during 2000 and 2001

then it was me in 2001 sometime

then it was you in 2002 sometime

then it was dukestreet most recently

but has duke been around long or did he come on board sometime in 2002...i will go look now;)

[jefhatfield]

ok, duke has been around a year in november...that will be his one year here

...and at 18+ posts per day, he is the batting champion here, too...at least i think so unless there is a newbie who just came on here and made 19 posts on their first day today or 38 posts on their first two days starting yesterday, etc...

and eye, your two year is coming up in a little over four months!...we should hold a party for you since only blakespot and i have seen that

[wake up Jobs!!!]

[ Admin Edit: what did I say? ]

[wake up Jobs!!!]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 100 POSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yesssssssss, finally I get to 100 POSTS


Ok let the flaming begin:rolleyes:

-GaBe-

[Backtothemac]

Come on!

Read back through the thread. There is no reason to continue the banter any further. He is either here lurking, posting, or not. The point is, that it doesn't effect us, so lets move on, and go say welcome to a newbie.

[alex_ant]

Originally posted by Taft


Wow! I never would have guessed he would have left over whining. Given all of the disagreements/battles/flamewars I've seen him in (and battled against him in :)), I would have hoped for a more grand exit. Not that I want or wanted to see him go.

This is a shocker for me.

Taft
I agree. For all his touting of the Second Amendment, he should have gone out with guns blazing. Instead, he quietly left over a bunch of whining newbies. What a wuss. Are you reading this, AlphaTech? Come back here and make a proper exit, you knobber.

[topicolo]

Somewhere out there Alphatech's fingers are twitching to click on "MacRumors."

I know it :).
Especially if I call him a chauvinist pig:rolleyes:.
C'mon Alpha, flame me:D

[Mr. Anderson]

Oh, I don't think Alpha is gone - he's just lurking and watching all the silliness. It will be a little different without him - I just hope no one thinks that they can try and take his place and try a flame newbies - that will not go over well.

Good luck Alpha
:D

[mischief]

First I'm annoying.... then I'm a newbie?!?:(

What's happening here? Alpha isn't dead or Banned.... He's just decided that it wasn't worth the abuse and downright idiocy... which I can certainly understand. I have only recently been posting "out front" again for lack of interesting threads having any longevity back here. Alpha chose to put himself in the middle of the Zealot War out front and got goaded into a verbal atrocity..... "The thread had to be destroyed in order to be saved."

BTW: If any of you have a problem with me I suggest you read more of my posts than just the ones where I'm being oppinionated out front.... I'm aware of the fact that I can be a loudmouth jerk out there... sometimes I get obnoxious to nosedive an otherwise pointless discussion.

[iGav]

I think he's gone and got himself a hottie......;) :)

[vniow]

Originally posted by iGAV
I think he's gone and got himself a hottie......;) :)

Nope, he hasn't won me over yet :D

[Wes]

Originally posted by edvniow


Nope, he hasn't won me over yet :D


LOL He always said his harley attracted girls.

[drastik]

Well, Its too bad he's gone. He was obviously liked if you read the thread, nothing like an opinated person to liven up conversation. Bye bye, AlphaTech.

[Mr. Anderson]

Seems like he's still floating around, lurking, like I expected.

Busted! :D

[Backtothemac]

Wow, Duke is on the case. So how much you charge for PI freelance :)

[Mr. Anderson]

That was just luck, I happened to see him there and didn't waste the opportunity to do a little screen capture.

If he really wants to be a lurker, he'll adjust his prefs so he won't show up as on the boards.

D

[Over Achiever]

Originally posted by dukestreet
Seems like he's still floating around, lurking, like I expected.

Busted! :D

:D:D:D:D:D

Well, we could always pm him if we have computer problems...;)

[topicolo]

Oh man, I can just see the new Alphatech Sightings thread going up as I type this. It's like spotting aliens or something :)

[Wes]

Dukestreet, you should join those organisations that search for missing people! Or the fbi and do the online pre-bust research.

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by topicolo
Oh man, I can just see the new Alphatech Sightings thread going up as I type this. It's like spotting aliens or something :)

You're going to get credit for that one - give me a few days on this - I'll give you a heads up. Very funny :D

D

[idkew]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


i am geting lonely here being the only old poster besides eyelikeart


I resent that! I have been on here longer than most, sept of 2001. :cool: i have two months on Backtothemac, although he has 5000 posts more than me. I like to read. when i do share my opinion, i usually strongly mean it. :)

[Wes]

Originally posted by idkew


I resent that! I have been on here longer than most, sept of 2001. :cool: i have two months on Backtothemac, although he has 5000 posts more than me. I like to read. when i do share my opinion, i usually strongly mean it. :)

Idkew, I got 2 months on you!

[Durandal7]

And I got 3 months on you W-_-W ;)

jef, how old do you have to be to be an old man of macrumors?
After all, even though I was a lurker for a while, I am a fairly prolific poster and am only 3 or 4 weeks younger then eye.

[krossfyter]

great im gone for sometime and this happens.


alpha will be missed.

[LimeiBook86]

well i couldn't blame AlphaTech for getting mad at some newbies... I know that feeling where someone asks a question that seems so easy for you yet hard for others... like when my brother couldn't go online, I yelled at him, all he had to do was turn off the router and then turn it on... but if everyone knew the same as we know there would be no fourms, no fun, no comments, nothing... I have to admit as a kid i have nothing else to do then surf on the net all day, i guess you can say my life is macrumors.com... but if AlphaTech has chosen to leave the fourms for now or for ever that is his choice... as a starter of this thread i would like to say i think this thread has turned out nice, besides the random "that was stupid that you left" and "you stink...BLAH BLAH BLAH" this thread has shown how much one person can make a difference in our lives. now i sure as hell would be happier if Alpha was back but hey, maybe he has things to do, un-like me :) well I have had a good experience with him and have no problem with him emailing me or PMing me or anything, so Alpha if your still out there, even if your just lurking behind the shadows waiting to return I just wanted to say drop by once and a while to tell us what ur doing, or say hi, thats all i ask...

goodbye friend

I'll remember you! ;)

(damn shift key is messed up, lol)

-Steven

[alex_ant]

Wow... that was really melodramatic. I cried, but I was chopping onions at the time, so it might not have been because of what you wrote.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by asurace
And I got 3 months on you W-_-W ;)

jef, how old do you have to be to be an old man of macrumors?
After all, even though I was a lurker for a while, I am a fairly prolific poster and am only 3 or 4 weeks younger then eye.

wow, you are really an old, old timer here, too!!!

i suspect third after me 07/00, and eyelikeart 01/01, of the regular posters from the 5,000+ members here on macrumors

blakespot has been here since 06/00, but then again, he started the whole ball rolling...i think:p

[wake up Jobs!!!]

I have the urge to flame Alpha Tech, butIwon't
because if I do, know one will read it because Arn will edit my post and write "what did I say" on it. So I will not flame alpha tech, for now:rolleyes:

GaBe-O

[wake up Jobs!!!]

Originally posted by LimeiBook86
well i couldn't blame AlphaTech for getting mad at some newbies... I know that feeling where someone asks a question that seems so easy for you yet hard for others... like when my brother couldn't go online, I yelled at him, all he had to do was turn off the router and then turn it on... but if everyone knew the same as we know there would be no fourms, no fun, no comments, nothing... I have to admit as a kid i have nothing else to do then surf on the net all day, i guess you can say my life is macrumors.com... but if AlphaTech has chosen to leave the fourms for now or for ever that is his choice... as a starter of this thread i would like to say i think this thread has turned out nice, besides the random "that was stupid that you left" and "you stink...BLAH BLAH BLAH" this thread has shown how much one person can make a difference in our lives. now i sure as hell would be happier if Alpha was back but hey, maybe he has things to do, un-like me :) well I have had a good experience with him and have no problem with him emailing me or PMing me or anything, so Alpha if your still out there, even if your just lurking behind the shadows waiting to return I just wanted to say drop by once and a while to tell us what ur doing, or say hi, thats all i ask...

goodbye friend

I'll remember you! ;)

(damn shift key is messed up, lol)

-Steven

You sound like a family member of yours died or somthing. Mabe Alpha Tech was your wife or secret love affair or somthing:eek: :rolleyes:

GaBe-O

[topicolo]

heheh... you beat me to the punch

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


wow, you are really an old, old timer here, too!!!


Yea, we're just relics of Macrumors ancient history now ;) I'm actually surprised that I don't see many users older then me, aside from you too. I'm actually surprised at how much this site has grown, when I started visiting it only had Hardware/Software Rumors and Article Discussion. (There may have been another but I'm not sure)

[krossfyter]

old is relative. i would call you all veterens.


im just hanging out.

[King Cobra]

Oh, duke, no need to take a screenshot of my name on the Community Discussion. I'm back and staying. :)

Over Achiever, I didn't say Alpha was banned. But FYI, if Alpha does continue his actions with newbies (before this incident occured) he MIGHT get banned. I eventually realized that my explicit language, along with redundant/pointless flameposts might result in the same.

Oh, and that's KC to you, Under Achiever. :p

MacMaster, and others...

W/O making this a dissertation, I have been away with my parents in our house in Sweden, Maine. We have been working hard to fix up this house, as my family will be moving there in just under a year. We had the carpet replaced downstairs, the beds were moved upstairs, and we slept through the heat (actually, the last two days were rather cooler). It's a bigger priority than being on the forums, because we have to prepare the house for our future, not just my enjoyment on the forums. :D :cool:

[vniow]

Hey KC, nice to see you back. Hope you get the house all fixed up :)

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by krossfyter
old is relative. i would call you all veterens.


im just hanging out.

asurace, eyelikeart, and i are the three old wise men and blakespot is god while arn must be the baby jesus and the evil one is...actually, we have a vacancy in that department since the last real workable candidate rode off on his harley:eek: ;) :p

[G4scott]

Alphatech was probably planning to be gone for a couple of days, but when he got back and saw that everybody was acting like he had died, he decided to have some fun with us...

Occasionally his 'ghost' appears in the forums ;)

But hey, I was gone for 2+ weeks without MacRumors this summer, and another week some time before that, both times in the great outdoors, where there is no internet connection :p (and nobody missed me :( :mad: :p )

As for post counts, and the such, I don't post as much as some people do, but then again, I'm rather lazy. I'm also looking to improve on my senior year of high school, and that keeps me away from MacRumors more than I'd like, but my education comes first...

[Macmaniac]

I've been posting for almost 2 years, I have been hanging out at the site for more than 2 years. I guess I'm an old timer, I remember all the good old guys the old flame wars were good and I can remember when we wondering if killing the CRT was a good thing.
I wonder if he is on vacation:confused:

(Steals G4Scott's pants) I remember when this used to be big;)

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Macmaniac
I've been posting for almost 2 years, I have been hanging out at the site for more than 2 years. I guess I'm an old timer, I remember all the good old guys the old flame wars were good and I can remember when we wondering if killing the CRT was a good thing.
I wonder if he is on vacation:confused:

(Steals G4Scott's pants) I remember when this used to be big;)

01/01...you are as old as eyelikeart!!!

then we shall be the four musketeers...or the old four musketeers

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by jefhatfield

asurace, eyelikeart, and i are the three old wise men and blakespot is god while arn must be the baby jesus and the evil one is...actually, we have a vacancy in that department since the last real workable candidate rode off on his harley:eek: ;) :p
I like that metaphor. As far as the evil one goes, he left voluntarily so it doesn't work as well. How about spikey, he was banished to the underworld by the almighty gods perhaps to return one day and wreak havoc.

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


01/01...you are as old as eyelikeart!!!

then we shall be the four musketeers...or the old four musketeers

All for one and one for all! I like that so much I'm going to put it in my signature.
Now why didn't any of the others stick around this long :confused:

[Macmaniac]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


01/01...you are as old as eyelikeart!!!

then we shall be the four musketeers...or the old four musketeers
I beat him by a day! I always looked up to him with his 100 posts during the early days.
Lol the four old musketeers:D (Waves cane around angerliy)

(Steals asurace's pants);)

[LimeiBook86]

Originally posted by wake up Jobs!!!


You sound like a family member of yours died or somthing. Mabe Alpha Tech was your wife or secret love affair or somthing:eek: :rolleyes:

GaBe-O

I asure you he wasn't! :rolleyes: :p

[Durandal7]

Look, if you want to bring him out of hiding that bad just make a thread that is so ridiculous to him that he'll have to respond (fools on harleys). Just flush him out. ;)

[Wes]

Yeah start a, my friend is so dumb that he bought a harley thread. Good thinking.

[job]

wow.

im gone for a couple of weeks and everything changes.

ah well.

ill see you around alpha.

[MacMaster]

Originally posted by King Cobra
Oh, duke, no need to take a screenshot of my name on the Community Discussion. I'm back and staying. :)

Over Achiever, I didn't say Alpha was banned. But FYI, if Alpha does continue his actions with newbies (before this incident occured) he MIGHT get banned. I eventually realized that my explicit language, along with redundant/pointless flameposts might result in the same.

Oh, and that's KC to you, Under Achiever. :p

MacMaster, and others...

W/O making this a dissertation, I have been away with my parents in our house in Sweden, Maine. We have been working hard to fix up this house, as my family will be moving there in just under a year. We had the carpet replaced downstairs, the beds were moved upstairs, and we slept through the heat (actually, the last two days were rather cooler). It's a bigger priority than being on the forums, because we have to prepare the house for our future, not just my enjoyment on the forums. :D :cool:
I'm sorry...:o

[bousozoku]

It's kinda good for AlphaTech. He doesn't have to give out free information since he's keeping a low profile. That way, when they ask something silly, he also doesn't have to be impatient which is so easy to do. I'm particularly bad when someone does it to me wherever I happen to be working. I've been known to say things like "Just turn off the computer and go home." :D

[edesignuk]

OMG! I can't believe people are still talking about Alpha leaving :rolleyes:
GET OVER IT! It really doesn't matter, good luck to you Aplha where ever you shall flame ;) :D

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


01/01...you are as old as eyelikeart!!!

then we shall be the four musketeers...or the old four musketeers

Then that makes blakespot the King and arn the Heir to the Throne.

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by verbose101
OMG! I can't believe people are still talking about Alpha leaving :rolleyes:
GET OVER IT! It really doesn't matter, good luck to you Aplha where ever you shall flame ;) :D

Wouldn't you enjoy it if we were missing you?

[groovebuster]

I believe that Alpha went away, because he couldn't stand it anymore that other people were proving him wrong lately on a lot of stuff. A few months ago he was still kind of a hero, but lately a lot of people were just annoyed by his attitude and gave him **** all the time.

And unlike in older times he often made a fool out himself, since some people were coming with real arguments and he still tried to pretend that he is the big guy who knows how the universe is working, not flexible at all to adapt to other opinons or to even admit that he was wrong about something.

I still think that he has a kind heart, but he is too busy with playing the hard and tough guy to protect his sensible character by a hard shell. He reminds me a lot of my dad (who died in January this year :(). And no, the relationship to my dad was far from working, but I tried my best to get along.

Alpha couldn't take it anymore that most people saw him as a freak and showed him open how annoyed they were by his behaviour. He made himself to what he was here in the forums and at the end he couldn't deal with it anymore.

Too bad!

I had a lot of fights with him, but he was almost like a pal to me anyway. We even smoked the peace-pipe together a few weeks ago, which was kind of amazing, considering how he bitched at me all the time before.

Farewell AlphaTech! Hope to see you again here some time!

... and I still like my '59 BMW better than your Harley! ;)

groovebuster

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by bousozoku


Wouldn't you enjoy it if we were missing you?
No, I would just feel sorry for you all. :rolleyes: :p