5 Oct
2015
5 Oct
'15
11:52 a.m.
On Monday 05 October 2015 12:16:16 Gene Heskett wrote:
I for one am pretty happy with TDE, and if Timothy
had a paypal account
for donations, I would feel that an annual donation is a reasonable way
to help compensate Timothy, or Zack or both meet maintenance expenses.
The operative word here is TANSTAAFL. And I dislike wearing the leech
label, which I am being right now as far as TDE is concerned. So within
reason as a single user, a fee donation request via paypal sure seems
like a suitable way to help. $10/mo I could afford. I have no clue how
many users there are, but if half of those pleased kicked in annually,
fresh hardware money should be sitting there drawing meager interest
till needed.
Your calls, both of you. Speak up.
I do give to the project via Paypal whenever there is a request and an offered
link. Probably not enough, but nothing is. Your idea is a good one.
It can help solve the hardware. But it doesn't solve the US weather. The
website could do with being somewhere more reliable.
I was on a severely delayed train recently with a chap who lives in Silicone
Valley but has previously lived outside the USA. We chatted. He said that
the reliability of his access to the Internet would make those of us who
complain here weep. He said that near Google isn't bad because they see to
it, but even there it isn't great.
If this is to be genuinely world-wide it needs to be reliable. Like Slávek's.
Perhaps we need to get it hosted in Norway or South Korea!
Lisi
On 5 October
2015 at 19:39, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 05 October 2015 07:30:10 Felix Miata wrote:
> > This sort of begs the question: why isn't TDE mirrored in the
> > places
>
> where
>
> > we get our distributions and updates, major mirrors like
> > kernel.org or gwdg.de or the various universities providing
> > mirroring service? What
>
> would
>
> > it take to make it happen?
>
> Better phrased than my question, but much the same. What can we do
> to help sort this out? czer.cz works brilliantly and reliably. Can
> we not get something similar for the rest of the repos? I had
> thought already of man.ac.uk and ox.ac.uk, both of whom give very
> good Debian mirrors. And I could ask port.ac.uk, as it is local.
> Anyone any suggestions as to how to go
> about it? Or whom else to approach?
>
> Lisi
>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett