Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
Many thanks to all the very generous people who donated. The hardware marco@ needs is on its way to him now. That so many OpenBSD users were willing to chip in is very heartening indeed. It seems a lot of people are interested in ACPI support :-) I have tried to send personal thank you notes to everyone who donated. Hopefully I didn't miss anybody. Cheers! On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:40:16PM +0100, Niall O'Higgins wrote: Hi, marco@ could desperately use an IBM Thinkpad for his ACPI work. This work is very important and many of us really want to get him this hardware. Everyone with a laptop running OpenBSD will likely benefit from marco's work. Unfortunately no individual has yet stepped up and given him one. So I have started a pool to buy him one. We need approximately $1200 USD to get him a T42 + docking station (which is required to get a serial port for kernel hacking). If you want to help get marco a Thinkpad, please donate via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've personally donated $100, and a number of other OpenBSD users have donated similar sums already. Remember that the Euro is quite strong vs. the US dollar at the moment, so Euro donations go even further. I'm afraid I don't have the resources to deal with anything other than PayPayl, so you if you can't use PayPal, sorry. Any money left over from the laptop donations will be given to the OpenBSD project. Please feel free to email me any suggestions or inquiries, and of course spread the word!
Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
- Original Message - From: Niall O'Higgins Date: Monday, October 23, 2006 22:47 Subject: Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here To: misc@openbsd.org Many thanks to all the very generous people who donated. The hardware marco@ needs is on its way to him now. That so many OpenBSD users were willing to chip in is very heartening indeed. It seems a lot of people are interested in ACPI support :-) I have tried to send personal thank you notes to everyone who donated. Hopefully I didn't miss anybody. Cheers! Hello, You should really consider (from time time) creating a hardware donation marathon via paypal, especially for urgent hardware needs. It was easy, fast and convenient to donate via paypal. Keep this kind of requests via undeadly or misc@, perhaps you'll get more hardware donations via this way?! Kind regards, Didier
Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
Thanks everybody! We really appreciate all the donations. /marco On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:39:16PM +0100, Niall O'Higgins wrote: Many thanks to all the very generous people who donated. The hardware marco@ needs is on its way to him now. That so many OpenBSD users were willing to chip in is very heartening indeed. It seems a lot of people are interested in ACPI support :-) I have tried to send personal thank you notes to everyone who donated. Hopefully I didn't miss anybody. Cheers! On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:40:16PM +0100, Niall O'Higgins wrote: Hi, marco@ could desperately use an IBM Thinkpad for his ACPI work. This work is very important and many of us really want to get him this hardware. Everyone with a laptop running OpenBSD will likely benefit from marco's work. Unfortunately no individual has yet stepped up and given him one. So I have started a pool to buy him one. We need approximately $1200 USD to get him a T42 + docking station (which is required to get a serial port for kernel hacking). If you want to help get marco a Thinkpad, please donate via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've personally donated $100, and a number of other OpenBSD users have donated similar sums already. Remember that the Euro is quite strong vs. the US dollar at the moment, so Euro donations go even further. I'm afraid I don't have the resources to deal with anything other than PayPayl, so you if you can't use PayPal, sorry. Any money left over from the laptop donations will be given to the OpenBSD project. Please feel free to email me any suggestions or inquiries, and of course spread the word!
Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
I saw the original plea and filed it away without thinking. Darrin's reminder got me to send in 10CAD. It's not much, it's not even in euros, but it helps. And now I am trying to propagandize some more, so come on, chip in! -Nick Hello, I'll donated too. Come on guys don't let this thread die until the guys have their thinkpad. ACPI support in openbsd is a must have, it will benefit to anyone!!! Show your love to openbsd and please donate money to them via paypal !!! Kind regards Didier
Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
I'll donated too. Shit , I need sleep ... I meant: I donated too ;-) Didier
Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:30:23AM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: Hello, I'll donated too. Come on guys don't let this thread die until the guys have their thinkpad. ACPI support in openbsd is a must have, it will benefit to anyone!!! Show your love to openbsd and please donate money to them via paypal !!! Kind regards Didier Over the course of a year or so, I've watched my laptop go from no disks found and lots of not configured items to almost everything fully supported and working great. It's like the devs have been working on *my* private wish list, but they're not. They're also adding support for tons of things I don't have (yet). Considering how much hardware is supported, the devs hardly ever ask for hardware. When they do, they need it. And it pays off to get it to them. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
Darrin Chandler wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:30:23AM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: Hello, I'll donated too. Come on guys don't let this thread die until the guys have their thinkpad. ACPI support in openbsd is a must have, it will benefit to anyone!!! Show your love to openbsd and please donate money to them via paypal !!! Kind regards Didier Over the course of a year or so, I've watched my laptop go from no disks found and lots of not configured items to almost everything fully supported and working great. It's like the devs have been working on *my* private wish list, but they're not. They're also adding support for tons of things I don't have (yet). Considering how much hardware is supported, the devs hardly ever ask for hardware. When they do, they need it. And it pays off to get it to them. Actually, don't misunderstand me, it is _NOT_ on my private list. I meant, in general, _a must have_ for openbsd, and every laptop user will benefit from it. My (companies) laptop went from no disks found to almost everything supported too within a few month. -- Didier Wiroth CEDIES route d'Esch, 211 L-1471 Luxembourg Tel: (+352) 478-8669 Fax: (+352) 478-9-8669 Web: http://www.cedies.public.lu GPG Key ID: 9A8B2ACA GPG Fingerprint: 6FF8 4362 F880 F7A8 A708 9F0D 3DD2 0502 9A8B 2ACA
Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:40:16 +0100 Niall O'Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to help get marco a Thinkpad, please donate via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i feel fortunate that we get so much from this openbsd group. money paypalled. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's
ACPI support, donate via payapl here
Hi, marco@ could desperately use an IBM Thinkpad for his ACPI work. This work is very important and many of us really want to get him this hardware. Everyone with a laptop running OpenBSD will likely benefit from marco's work. Unfortunately no individual has yet stepped up and given him one. So I have started a pool to buy him one. We need approximately $1200 USD to get him a T42 + docking station (which is required to get a serial port for kernel hacking). If you want to help get marco a Thinkpad, please donate via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've personally donated $100, and a number of other OpenBSD users have donated similar sums already. Remember that the Euro is quite strong vs. the US dollar at the moment, so Euro donations go even further. I'm afraid I don't have the resources to deal with anything other than PayPayl, so you if you can't use PayPal, sorry. Any money left over from the laptop donations will be given to the OpenBSD project. Please feel free to email me any suggestions or inquiries, and of course spread the word!
Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:40:16PM +0100, Niall O'Higgins wrote: Hi, marco@ could desperately use an IBM Thinkpad for his ACPI work. This work is very important and many of us really want to get him this hardware. Everyone with a laptop running OpenBSD will likely benefit from marco's work. Unfortunately no individual has yet stepped up and given him one. So I have started a pool to buy him one. We need approximately $1200 USD to get him a T42 + docking station (which is required to get a serial port for kernel hacking). If you want to help get marco a Thinkpad, please donate via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've personally donated $100, and a number of other OpenBSD users have donated similar sums already. Remember that the Euro is quite strong vs. the US dollar at the moment, so Euro donations go even further. I'm afraid I don't have the resources to deal with anything other than PayPayl, so you if you can't use PayPal, sorry. Any money left over from the laptop donations will be given to the OpenBSD project. Please feel free to email me any suggestions or inquiries, and of course spread the word! I'm working on selling my current laptop so I could buy a ThinkPad, which I was thinking of loaning for a time. But that's still in the future, so it doesn't count for anything. Instead, I went ahead and chipped in through paypal. If even a tiny fraction of the people on this list pitch in just a bit each then it'll be done. And you *know* you'd get benefit from ACPI support. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
Re: ACPI support, donate via payapl here
On 10/18/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm working on selling my current laptop so I could buy a ThinkPad, which I was thinking of loaning for a time. But that's still in the future, so it doesn't count for anything. Instead, I went ahead and chipped in through paypal. If even a tiny fraction of the people on this list pitch in just a bit each then it'll be done. And you *know* you'd get benefit from ACPI support. I saw the original plea and filed it away without thinking. Darrin's reminder got me to send in 10CAD. It's not much, it's not even in euros, but it helps. And now I am trying to propagandize some more, so come on, chip in! -Nick
