[phpa] Re: Donations and Re: Re: A testimony you can use if you want!

  • From: "Jamie Burns" <jamie.burns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <phpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:01:49 -0000

Hi all...

<the wanderer returns>

I can see it now...

Lord of the Rings DVD - $20;
PHP for amazing guru's - $34.99;
Kick ass webserver with tons of bandwidth - $2000p.a;

;o)

Just kidding - good idea.

Jamie.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Luc I . Suryo" <luc@xxxxxxxx>
To: <phpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 11:42 PM
Subject: [phpa] Re: Donations and Re: Re: A testimony you can use if you
want!


>
>
> xing li <xing@xxxxxxx>
>    wrote at Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:32:05PM -0800:
>
> >
> > I would stay away from Amazon's donation service which I consider the
> > greatest hidden scam in the world. They charge an extremely high % for
> > donations and their record keeping system is best considered as garbage
> > since you have absolutely no idea who donated money to you. The only
> > information they list is a transaction number and pretty much useless.
> >
> > c2it.com (from citibank) is getting a lot of attention since any
> > transaction within the US is completly free and all their US account are
> > federally insured since they are a real bank but unfortunately Nick is
> > in UK. =)
> ???
> with amazon you build you whishlist of book, video, dvd and one can but it
> for you...
>
> >
> > On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 05:59  AM, Martin DUBUC wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Nick ! thanks for the great work you do ! ;)
> > >
> > > Why not a WushList on Amazon for example ? ( for people like me who
> > > want to
> > > donate but who are not supported by a company ;) ).
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Nick Lindridge" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <phpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 2:45 PM
> > > Subject: [phpa] Donations and Re: Re: A testimony you can use if you
> > > want!
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >>> This may be why our processor was smoking ;-) We should already be
> > >>> using
> > >>> mod_gzip - though if your tests indicate otherwise please let me kno
w
> > > :-)
> > >>
> > >> :-) I didn't check your full headers so wasn't sure.
> > >>
> > >>> One of the other packages I saw provided gzip functionality built in
> > >>> to
> > > the
> > >>> accelerator - though that was all written purely in PHP and was a
page
> > > cache
> > >>> as well (which didn't work at all well for us, too many pages have
> > >>> user
> > >>> specific information).
> > >>
> > >> I read your comments on the jpcache. I wrote a content caching system
> > >> for
> > >> my own page rendering model, and it allows cached content to still be
> > >> dynamic, and that's a good compromise. I first build a page as a
> > > hierarchical
> > >> tree of renderers, and then they render away to produce a string with
> > >> the
> > >> final content - which is great from a composition point of view, but
> > >> not
> > >> that efficient. So an optimiser, written in php, traverses the
renderer
> > >> tree, optimises away the calls to renderer methods that produce
static
> > > content,
> > >> and produces new php code that has echo statements for static
renderer
> > > output,
> > >> and only instantiates renderers and makes the necessary renderer
calls
> > >> for
> > >> the dynamic output.  This can work really well, but it's not
consistent
> > >> or clean enough to release as any kind of product at the moment :-(
> > >> I'm not using it on the phpa site btw. because it's not necessary.
> > >>
> > >>> I'll make sure I get the PHP Accelerator logo's on board at some
point
> > > in
> > >>> the next couple of weeks for you. And once again, thanks for a
> > >>> fantastic
> > >>> piece of software - to where do I send my donation?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks :-)  Someone suggested PayPal, and I've used them once or
twice,
> > >> but I'd now stay clear of them given
> > >> all the lousy press that they've had - IPO or not. Actually you're ok
> > >> as a giver, it's just that they're likely to freeze accounts at a
> > >> moments notice and make it very difficult to get the money out!
> > >> I'll put a donations button using one of the other companies at some
> > >> point in the future. I'm spending 1400 quid a year on my server, so
> > >> donations would certainly be welcome!
> > >>
> > >> Cheers
> > >> Nick
> > >>
> >
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> > >
> > >
> >
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>
> --
> Kind regards,
> --------------
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> ispi - http://www.ispi.net
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