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Re: Thanks for donations
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:17:45PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>> To anyone who has made a donation: thanks!
>>
>> I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer
>> this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB
>> 5400 RPM drive. I have now setup a cross compiling environment again
>> since I finally have the room to do so.
>>
>> An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB
>> with "20 GB free" for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate,
>> bringing the total price down to $100. Their actual 120 GB drive was
>> $150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache. I
>> figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price
>> increase.
>>
>> Anywho, thanks again for the donations.
>
>Just a question Harold, have you offered any donations to Kensuke or
>to Alexander for their work ?
Hasn't Harold suggested that people could contribute links for their own
donations? I don't think it makes sense for someone to be attempting to
dole out money. What would the criteria be? Better to let the users
decide.
cgf