Thanks for donations

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Feb 19 15:34:00 GMT 2003


Yeah, I keep asking (on this list) if anyone needs me to buy them 
anything or transfer money to their accounts, and I encourage them to 
setup their own donations account (which would get a link on the 
donations page).  So far, no takers :(

Harold

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 ?
> 
> Alan.



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