On Thursday 22 December 2016 16:05:01 Timothy Pearson wrote: > All, > > I'll keep this short and simple. The TDE project needs your financial > support to continue hosting the services critical for further > development. > > This year we are have fallen significantly short of breaking even on > the monthly expenses needed to keep TDE online and under active > development; these expenses primarily consist of electricity for the > TDE servers and Internet bandwidth. I have been covering the > shortfall for several years now, but it has become a great strain over > the past few months. If you would prefer to offer financial rewards > for fixing specific bugs, that works too, but the bottom line is we > need additional financial support to avoid further service cuts that > could slow / stop development. > > We are not in a position to outsource portions of the TDE > infrastructure beyond what has already been migrated to external > systems such as the mirror distribution system. Attempting to split > up the remaining core would simply incur even higher bandwidth costs > than what we already have, and altering the stable, running system at > this point could end up halting development entirely. > > Finally, I'd like to personally thank those individuals who have > donated, are hosting portions of the TDE infrastructure such as the > mirror system and backup site, or have been actively working on TDE > development over the past year. Your contributions are much > appreciated, and TDE would not be possible without them! > > If you can, please donate to the TDE project here, and thanks! > > https://trinitydesktop.org/donate.php > > Timothy Pearson > TDE Founder > Timothy: I have or had a paypal account that I haven't used recently, as in 45 days or so, but all of my attempts to login and donate, I am always stuck at the spinning wheel wait screen, either after hitting enter using ff's password linked phrase, or clearing the and re-entering it by hand. Same result. I am a convert to the TANSTAAFL phrase since RAH made it famous several decades ago, and I have been the recipient of your largess long enough I should pay the rent, as much as I can afford on SS. But after 15 minutes, I'm still looking at the please wait spinner. And a page refresh, f5, just continues the spinner. If you are in the US, PM me with a USPS address, and I'll have my bank send you a check. I think the day after Christmas business has crashed paypal! Cheers and thank you Timothy, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>