asking for donation: laptop mostly out of commission

2010-04-25 Thread Marc Espie
My current development machine is failing... the fan turns on and off in haphazard ways... today, it took me 3/4h to turn it back on, after roughly 30 FAN FAILURE bios messages. Out of warranty, I disassembled it (easy for thinkpads), found nothing obvious, and put it back together (obviously no

Re: asking for donation: laptop mostly out of commission

2010-04-25 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Marc Espie wrote: ... So, I'm asking for donations. Antoine conveniently has a paypal account (and lives in the same city I do), so this should be reasonably easy. (Antoine, can you post details). Anyone interested in donating money for espie@'s laptop can make a paypal

Re: asking for donation: laptop mostly out of commission

2010-04-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:32:14PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I will post a reply as soon as the needed amount is reached (Marc is looking for a vendor right now to have the exact price). If any money is left, it'll be send as a donation to OpenBSD. The exact price might be a bit

Re: asking for donation: laptop mostly out of commission

2010-04-25 Thread Jasper Valentijn
2010/4/25 Antoine Jacoutot ajacou...@bsdfrog.org: On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Marc Espie wrote: ... So, I'm asking for donations. Antoine conveniently has a paypal account (and lives in the same city I do), so this should be reasonably easy. (Antoine, can you post details). Anyone interested in

Hold for now, Re: asking for donation: laptop mostly out of commission

2010-04-25 Thread Marc Espie
I think we probably have enough money. I'll check things tomorrow (it's nearly zzz time) and tell you how things go. A big collective THANK YOU to everyone so far. I'll be sure to send personal notes (in private of course) once I've cross-checked everything.