Re: Debatable: Rootless Mode is an Important and Needed Feature

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Robert,

My PayPal account is my email address.  I have not setup a link to it 
from my homepage yet, but I have that on my To-Do list.  I have also not 
proposed any prices for developing features that do not exist.  However, 
I would be more than happy to accept any contributions for the work that 
I have already done... I could certainly use that money to keep my 
development hardware up-to-date.

I have really been looking into upgrading my Linux machine that I use 
for building Cygwin/XFree86 --- I need a new motherboard ($120), a new 
chip ($200), a new 7200 RPM hard drive ($120), a bundle of RAM ($100), 
and a semi-modern graphics card ($120).  I'd also like to have a UPS 
($100-$200) since uptimes of more than 7 days are becoming rather rare 
at my apartment due to lightning storms and whatnot.  It is a real pain 
to try logging on to my Linux machine from school only to find out that 
the storm during the night caused it to hang (we've had some power sags 
that caused it to hang but that did not cause the machine to reboot or X 
to stop displaying on the screen).

PayPal money would be perfect for this because I don't have to struggle 
with myself as to whether spending this money is worth it or not --- the 
PayPal money would only be spent for hardware, so there is nothing to 
struggle about.  Needless to say, the fiance stays out of the loop on 
that money as well, so there is no chance of veto on any purchases :)

Hopefully that will do until I put a link on my page.  Like I said, my 
PayPal account is my email address.

Harold

Robert Mecklenburg wrote:
> HLH> Could you please ask your pointy-haired bosses for a few thousand bucks 
> HLH> to pay one of your programmers to throw some time at a rootless mode? 
> HLH> Better yet, why don't you ask them if they would be willing to pay me to 
> HLH> do it?
>
> Some time ago there was a suggestion to setup a paypal account to
> receive donations for this purpose.  I recall someone saying that an
> announcement would be made when the account was available.  What ever
> happened to this?  Personally, I'd be happy to contribute some hard
> cash to whomever implements this feature.
>
> Cheers,