Batboard

It is a very convenient way to send money. Free for the sender, could be free for the receiver, but usually ends up costing a few percent of the amount being sent. I use it on eBay all the time, especially when paying by credit card, as it offers a bit more protection and security should something go wrong with the deal. (I'm having such a problem right now. Sent money via PayPal but have not yet seen the item; my e-mails are not being answered nor are my phone calls. Luckily the seller is relatively close to me so I could drive there if things get desperate.)

There are other on-line payment facilities, but for some reason PayPal seems to get the lion's share. It's also now owned by eBay and is pushed big-time by them.

Bob M.

bernie wrote:My two bits worth:
It is a shame that the Bat board has such a fixation with "Pay Pal"
I would gladley send a check, or cash for the fund.
I have no interest in "Pay Pal", I am not even sure why I would ever want it.

Bernie,
I sent a postal money order for my "share" of the bill. PM Jon on where to send it.

PS - had a very bad experience with paypal. Would never use it again. When buying anything from eBAY or here on the labs, it's a PMO sent via traceable US Mail.

Martin

Payment sent!! Thanks to everyone here on the batboard!!

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count me in for $10, awesome place!

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My two bits worth:
Ok allready!
I give up.
I joined PayPal so I could send in $25.
The best deal for the money so far.
Well, also so I could purchase a camera on ebay.

Alex -

I know you are looking for a new machine or got one, I have a couple of older Dell 6450's quad processor racks that would be available if you want to forgo the shipping. I got them for system upgrades at work and I they had 4 Pent Pro 500mhz or 750mhz (Not sure) with raid array, dual nic's etc. I have not had any time to mess with them, but they working when pulled and were bad assed machines in the day. We were running them as image servers and server 10 of millions of site images a day on RH7 as I last recall. We went to extenal caching and did some house cleaning.

Just tossing it out. I'm in Southern CA, and they are about 60 lbs 6U with pull out tracks for easy racking.

Sandy

Count me in

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AHEM.

i love how people have contributed to this "FUND" for darn near a year now and ........


WHAT HAS BEEN PURCHASED WITH THE CASH?




doug

I sent in my couple bucks more than a few months ago and its not a big deal but I havent gotten the $upporter under my name.

I know a few other people with the same case.

Mike

My two bits worth:
Me too.

same here

Ok - I have gone back through this thread and looked to see as best I can and given people the tag's that have donated (to the best of my ability to determine they have done so.)

If your still without a supporter tag, post your paypal reciept text in this thread, and i'll update it in the next couple of days.

-Alex

thx Alex

Hello.

I sent mine in so long ago I can no longer find anything on it.
Very strange, on John board this was done in nearly an instant.

Alex,

If it means anything, Cowthief and I compared paypal receipts at one point, so I know he has donated to the batboard fund.

On a different note...

Jon: What happened to batboard today? Is it time to dig into the $3K for a new server or new hosting?

John

k4wtf wrote:Alex,

If it means anything, Cowthief and I compared paypal receipts at one point, so I know he has donated to the batboard fund.

On a different note...

Jon: What happened to batboard today? Is it time to dig into the $3K for a new server or new hosting?

John

apache went out to lunch. restarted it once someone brought it to my attention and all seems to be working.

There are several freeware network monitoring tools you can use to monitor things like this. "Big Brother" http://www.bb4.org/ is one of them.

You might want to consider setting up monitoring.

John

k4wtf wrote:There are several freeware network monitoring tools you can use to monitor things like this. "Big Brother" http://www.bb4.org/ is one of them.

You might want to consider setting up monitoring.

John

This is the first time my network monitoring (angry batboard users) failed.

Sorry it took me a while, I just sent $25

So... where are we? What got bought/built/etc??
thanks!

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rdmahurin

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The thing is that I have donated for last three years and never got banner for that.What`s that means?

Read the whole thread before donating. You will not get credit unless you follow the directions in the thread - and send the money to the right place.

alex wrote:Read the whole thread before donating. You will not get credit unless you follow the directions in the thread - and send the money to the right place.

Well I do not know what did you mean with that,sending money to right place.I did provide you with right info long time ago Alex if I remeber right.It was paid right to batlabs paypal email.This is not fair from you or anybody.

t95mwp wrote:

alex wrote:Read the whole thread before donating. You will not get credit unless you follow the directions in the thread - and send the money to the right place.

Well I do not know what did you mean with that,sending money to right place.I did provide you with right info long time ago Alex if I remeber right.It was paid right to batlabs paypal email.This is not fair from you or anybody.

Says right on the main page:

Batwing Laboratories relies the financial support of a core group of individuals. If you would like to lend a hand in paying the ISP bills, please click the button below to make a donation through PayPal. Every little bit helps, and is greatly appreciated. Thanks. [paypal button here]
Note: This does not goto the batboard server fund!

Ive asked people to NOT email me at this point, just to post in this thread. If you post up your reciept, I'll add it, providing it goes to Jon.

I have no way of tracking what goes to Bat, or how he wants to recognise people for their financial support.

-Alex

Alex,if we donate to batlabs or to Jon,we are still Batlabs supporters,correct?
mod

Only if you donate to Jon's fund do I give you the board supporter tag. I have no control/information/etc from Bat about what happens with the money from his link. IT's my oppinion that since it goes to him, it's up to him to figure out what he wants to do with it, to what extent, and what recognition he wants to offer.

I help Jon out with the board supporter stuff.

-Alex

As a reminder...

batlabs.com and batboard.batlabs.com are two different servers with two different owners. We here at the board have no control over the content at batlabs.com, and he has no control over here.

Pj wrote:he has no control over here.

That's not true. It is his domain, his concept, etc, so it is by no means mine. I just keep the ship on course board wise, and have nothing to do with the content on the main site.

-Alex

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That was from last year,I am gonna do it for this year as well.

Ok, that does not get you a supporter tag - to get one of those, you use the paypal information that Jon has posted here, and then you can post that reciept here, and an admin will add the tag for you.

-Alex

Just in case you guys can't find where you should donate to in the beginning of the thread. To get a "BatBoard $upporter" tag you must donate through PayPal to the following e-mail.

jon@snoopy.net

Well,thats the problem with donating...it never goes to where you intended it to go,I have been on here a few years,and never knew batlabs and batboard were seperate entities.I am sure I am not alone here?
mod

Technically they are NOT seperate entities as far as the entire site and forums are concerned. They are just hosted on 2 different servers, well more for the main site with the mirrors but that's another story entirely.

The BatBoard is a part of the main Batlabs entity. Where people get confused is the "management structure" of the site. Alex, Wavetar and Myself are administrators of the Forums, but have no control over the "main site" (as it's called), that is a higher level of management than what we are. Make sense?

so where did my donation go exactly?

To the main site fund which is directly controlled and administrated by Batwing.

n5tbu wrote:Well,thats the problem with donating...it never goes to where you intended it to go,I have been on here a few years,and never knew batlabs and batboard were seperate entities.I am sure I am not alone here?
mod

They are - and kinda aren't.

Bat owns the *.batlabs.com domain. He started the board - and ownes it in the sense that it's his idea, and his domain.

The board has kinda had an interesting history - before it was as you see it today, it was a cgi script on Bat's system. I have an archive of it somewhere. IT was then built in to the phpbb style system. I don't know if Jon always hosted that - I think he did, but i'm not sure. Either way, Jon provides the underlying technical stuff to make the board work (and I support that). He doesn't do any administration of the board unless there's something he needs to do in a system admin capacity. I pretty much run the board - Bat does pop on here occassionally, or possibly often - but doesn't really post or really do much by the way of administration. I have done that since April 23, 2002 (still hve the PM). I do go to bat sometimes about stuff going on here when i think it's nesecary for him to be aware of it.

So the batboard supporter tag (and you'll notice it says Batboard and NOT batlabs) is to keep the site up and running, hosted, etc.

The board admins/moderators do not have control over the content of the main site, and don't support it (in the technical/updating sense, we of course, support it in spirit.)

With that being said, the link on the first page you get to when you go to batboard.batlabs.com has Bat's paypal button. You'll notice under it says that the money doesn't go to the support of the batboard. Since it was there before I was and it was put there by bat, I'm reluctant to remove or change that.

-Alex

alex wrote:Ok, that does not get you a supporter tag - to get one of those, you use the paypal information that Jon has posted here, and then you can post that reciept here, and an admin will add the tag for you.

-Alex

What Alex that was last year guys,you guys should do it long time ago,I do not have reciept any more,this is from paypal site pasted here.If that does not help then what does?

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Is this ok?

Yes. That goes to the BatBoard fund. Give it a few minutes and you'll notice that your title has changed.

You can go back quite some time in paypal history and at least make a good effort to cut/paste the stuff.

Also, there was a time when spreadsheets were being given to me with emails of who doanted, and i asked several times for people to let me know if they did, how much, and what email so I could cross reference them. Not many people stepped forward in that respect.

Oh well.

Can't make everyone happy.

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".." - should read that doantion was from radio43. To many user name for different sites and boards.

RADIO43 wrote:Your payment for $10.00 USD to jon@snoopy.net has been sent.




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".." - should read that doantion was from radio43. To many user name for different sites and boards.

You have an RSS warning - so you won't get the board supporter tag until that gets removed. Read up on the FAQ if you'd like more information about the warning, and how long it stays with you.

-Alex

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Donated $30 to batboard today. Also donated $30 to batwing by accident. Oh well. Both have helped tremendously. Thanks for the help.

philn


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"Dear Santa, I want a BAT-Server for Christmas !!"

As much help as this board has helped me, we must keep it going, my donation is en-route $20.00 from muggsyjr23@aol.com


Muggsy

...I donated a while back and I dont have a cool "Supporter" title on my name...