[lugm.org] RIP Shailen Surat

[Ronny R.]

I knew him when Ajay and I were collegue some 10 years ago and i used to
call him "Long"

Rest in peace, Shailen.


Ronny



On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Actually, I never got the chance to hang around tuxcafe. When
> I first went there, It was already closed.
>
> I met selven when he attended MLUG, and Ajay at infotech.
>
>
> //Logan
> C-x-C-c
>
> --- On *Tue, 7/12/10, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lugm.org] RIP Shailen Surat
> To: "Arvind Doobary" <arvind.d at intnet.mu>, "LUGM Discuss Mailing List" <
> discuss at lugm.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 7 December, 2010, 17:59
>
>
> :( i was still in shock since yesterday.
>
> He was among the rare persons that has influenced my life. I remember the
> days when i still had dialup and downloading sources were tiring for me,
> specially when it was kde sources, shailen used to download em freely for me
> then, since he then had tuxcafe, my teen days were mostly spent escaped from
> college, and hanging out in tuxcafe, i learnt to play quake from shailen, i
> still remember the memorable pwnage i got from him, 117 against  -7. He had
> a hell of a personality, a lot of time he used to buy food for all of us at
> tuxcafe, it was probably from his cyber cafe that i first encounterred ajay
> and logan.
>
> He showed me that i can do things my own way, anyway i wish it with the
> opensource.
>
> All that said, he was always cool, and always worthy of being called a
> hero!
>
> RIP shailen :(
> RIP acid420 :(
>
> +selven
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Arvind Doobary <arvind.d at intnet.mu<http://mc/compose?to=arvind.d@intnet.mu>
> > wrote:
>
>  :O
>
> That's terrible news indeed. Even though I didn't know him much, I met him
> twice about 9 years ago and I was quite impressed by the guy too.
> May his soul rest in peace.
>
>
> -Arvind
>
>
> On 12/07/2010 07:56 PM, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>
>   In case you didn't get the initial mail from Ajay,
>
> Shailen Surat passed away on the 4th of December. He was
> out of the ICU, and had returned home.
>
> Personally, I met him in 2004, and he made a huge impression on
> me, and encouraged me to pursue hacking in my spare time.
>
> Words fail me to describe the loss of one of the pioneers of FLOSS
> in MU, and most importantly a good friend.
>
> //Logan
> C-x-C-c
>
>
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