Hey, me again. Ok...Update...It seems that all the problems were caused by one of The Neo Project's founders, Mike Curry. He ripped the site offline and just had it redirect to MS's Legal Department so that it looked like they had shut it down, or some script kiddie did it. He has since taken all of The Neo Project's and Operation Project X's mirrors offline and has offered no reasoning behind why he did it. The stats server is the only one remaining alive due to the fact that Curry did not have enough access to it to take it offline. We believe the reasoning behind this was due to the fact that he wanted to quit doing all his projects and didn't want to deal with the aftermath of it. (This is especially obvious due to his sudden stoppage of TNP projects and an emphasis being placed on OPX.) Due to the problems he has caused, Operation Project X is left with no website, no forums, and only limited access to the stats server. The major developers who were working on OPX, have decided that it is no longer worth the trouble to continue pursuing the project. We have no way to copy the statistics correctly and we feel that losing the stats will destroy the userbase to a point that the project is no longer viable. Also, due to the fact that both Tom Wirschell and Mike Valstar, writers of the Pxclient and Windows GUI respectively, have decided that they will make OPX a very low priority, we have no more programmers with which to write updates to the software. With all these facts in mind, the Developers have decided to end Operation Project X. If anyone wishes to, and has the resources to, restart the project, the source code of basically everything is still available by request. The developers are sad to see this project go, especially due to all the work we put into it but sometimes things happen and people lose the will to continue. The Developers have decided to branch off and run/support other distributed computing and software efforts such as Distributed.net's RC5-72 effort, Seti@Home, Folding@Home, and the development of the Mozilla browser, with the largest grouping going to Distributed.net and forming the team "Team Scrubadub". We will however, for the most part, still be active in the efnet IRC channel #opx if you have any questions or wish to obtain any source code that we have from the project. Thanks for the time and CPU cycles everyone donated to help with OPX. So, if you actually didn't read the whole post and just skipped around I will reiterate, Operation Project X is hereby canceled.
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