As you might have seen here: http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=90472#unread
We have moved ILX to Amazon servers and need to raise cash to pay for the hosting. Unlike previous years, we don't have a set target -- we'll buy a server to fit a budget based on however much we raise. We're also paying for bandwidth separately, so it's harder to put an exact figure on how much we'll need.
A rough estimate, based on usage so far, is that for a year's costs, $1200 should see us OK, with a server big enough to run ILX at its present size. $1500 will give us some breathing room. $2100 will get us up to a larger size server with room to grow.
(Also, would like to say thank you very, very much to everyone who has donated in previous years, and thanks in advance to everyone who donates now. It has always amazed me how quickly these things go, and makes me grateful I get to be part of it)
― stet, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:17 (fourteen years ago)
(Is the widget appearing for people? Working for me in Chrome, not in Safari)
― stet, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:21 (fourteen years ago)
I see it in firefox
― dmr, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:21 (fourteen years ago)
If you can't see it, you can also donate on the page at http://ilxor.chipin.com/ilx-2012
― stet, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:22 (fourteen years ago)
yes, firefox (linux)
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:25 (fourteen years ago)
2,271 registered users
just sayin
― modric conservative (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:25 (fourteen years ago)
donated! my first time.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:25 (fourteen years ago)
No widget in Zing Touch oh noes
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:25 (fourteen years ago)
the link at the top goes to ilxor.com, but I'm logged in at www.ilxor.com apparently, anyway, the widget here works as well :-)
― StanM, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:26 (fourteen years ago)
Having cashflow issue today, hope this is still up tomorrow when it's resolved!
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:26 (fourteen years ago)
eurgh, give me a reason to sort out my paypal account why dont you
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:27 (fourteen years ago)
im skint but i donated $10
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:28 (fourteen years ago)
broke week, but threw a few dollars this way in case I miss my chance. I'm so thankful, stet!
(Widget works in Opera!)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:30 (fourteen years ago)
omg @ "personal appeal" <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
― markers, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:30 (fourteen years ago)
(Just to say, there's no real time pressure on this one -- I have covered this month's hosting. If people want to wait until pay day that's fine too)
― stet, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:32 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/Qu7XE.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:35 (fourteen years ago)
hey stet can you post a pic of the beast technology you'd get if we raise like 5 grand
― modric conservative (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:37 (fourteen years ago)
Finally, a chance to donate, I chucked a large chunk o change at yers. AUD buys more USD at the moment anyway.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:37 (fourteen years ago)
Rub it in why don't you...
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:38 (fourteen years ago)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1185/1362723561_60d7834b51_o.jpg xp
― stet, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:39 (fourteen years ago)
This was the old, now-dead henfap btw:http://farm1.staticflickr.com/115/316028361_4ef88c7574.jpg
― stet, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:41 (fourteen years ago)
donated, with pleasure. Can we get a Jimmy Wales pic on the "personal appeal" link please?
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:42 (fourteen years ago)
I expect the final amount will be presented to detlef schrempf on a giant comedy cheque
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:43 (fourteen years ago)
xxp Weird to think that the whole of ILX fitted into something the size of a pizza box.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:43 (fourteen years ago)
I'm so happy I finally have a job at donations time and can actually chip in!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:44 (fourteen years ago)
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BAi5AV1_O1LwGKKcisLsAw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7aD00NzQ7cT04NTt3PTMxMg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/7ed59d1a7ca15813f70e6a70670054a3.jpg
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:45 (fourteen years ago)
you might remember Stet from such Telethons as "Out with Gout '88" and "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House"
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:47 (fourteen years ago)
Also, it can't be repeated enough imo, thank you for doing this, stet.
― StanM, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:48 (fourteen years ago)
i tried to transfer money as a guest. unfortunately it didn't work. the system told me that a field was incomplete or missing. but i filled everything in including the checkbox where i agreed to transmit the info. anyone a clue what's going on there?
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:49 (fourteen years ago)
I have given up on being a freeloading guttersnipe this year so have chipped in a bit.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:53 (fourteen years ago)
$531 in 37 minutes!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:55 (fourteen years ago)
me toooo :)xpyaay :)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:56 (fourteen years ago)
contributed!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:56 (fourteen years ago)
donated. hopefully this doesn't link my ilx account to my government name!
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:57 (fourteen years ago)
Donated a little, will do some more in a few days.
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:58 (fourteen years ago)
xp Don't worry Mr. Obama.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:59 (fourteen years ago)
i dont care its in my fathers name
xp
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:00 (fourteen years ago)
i'm in, pretty amazing turnout as usual
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:02 (fourteen years ago)
http://zibbet-production.s3.amazonaws.com/images/445/2227241-original.jpg
― Euler, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:08 (fourteen years ago)
Donated $5.10
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:10 (fourteen years ago)
Ich habe eingechippt!
― rhetorical questino (seandalai), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:13 (fourteen years ago)
"no limit" youtube link here
― StanM, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:15 (fourteen years ago)
did it
― dead precedents politics as usual (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:17 (fourteen years ago)
<3
― estela, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:23 (fourteen years ago)
Hopefully redressing my parasite years.
― Plato’s The Cave In Claymation (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:26 (fourteen years ago)
I PLEDGED xgodspeed stetjimmy wales is turning in his grave
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:29 (fourteen years ago)
Kif, I have donated to ILX. Inform the men.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:34 (fourteen years ago)
I donated.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:39 (fourteen years ago)
Can I write it off?
You've got my patronage.
― LIVE MEGA DOPPLER 7000 HD (naus), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:39 (fourteen years ago)
cat fancy, the gateway lamentable hobby of our times
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:39 (fourteen years ago)
xp to more serious topics, I believe that is the problem--that if we keep money around, we have to pay taxes on it or become a charity or something. As long as it's one-time fund drives up to a specific amount for a specific purpose, and no money is pocketed/saved, I think it avoids legal trouble.
Oh well, I'll just have to coast on the generosity of all of you who donated yesterday.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:41 (fourteen years ago)
That's kind of what I thought. We need a friend in the Cayman Islands.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:44 (fourteen years ago)
http://d.yimg.com/ec/image/v1/release/187512336;encoding=jpg;size=300;fallback=defaultImage
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:48 (fourteen years ago)
yeah, Laurel's right. It's much simpler for me just to have exactly what we need at the time. Though the Amazon bills are monthly, so I may have to formalise things a bit anyway.
― stet, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:58 (fourteen years ago)
The US non-profit route is a nightmare of paperwork, btw. The most straightforward US structure I found was a co-op or club model.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:17 (fourteen years ago)
Club ILXicanaPosts are freeLOL and Excelsiorthere's enough for everyone.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:19 (fourteen years ago)
Have a meeting w/accountant next week, will run it past him. Think this is much easier in the UK to do as a small business, but need to work out what the risk exposure is there if Sony come and sue us or something.
― stet, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:47 (fourteen years ago)
If you need a company name, I propose Stet & Sons, ltd.
http://i44.tinypic.com/o06mc.jpg
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:05 (fourteen years ago)
wd have thought there were several Premier League players likely to sue us before Sony does
― the smell of Whiney's cheap perfume (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:08 (fourteen years ago)
michael owen brochure.pdf
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:09 (fourteen years ago)
Stet, you have sons and you never told me? ;_;
― Madchen, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:48 (fourteen years ago)
we are all stet's sons
― rocognise gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:50 (fourteen years ago)
Can our donations buy suggest bans?
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:56 (fourteen years ago)
Sonned in a hosting beef
― stet, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:56 (fourteen years ago)
This is going to end in a Maury episode, isn't it.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:02 (fourteen years ago)
http://imnotatoy.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/30407_442073111320_214378536320_5926978_5899873_n.jpg
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:04 (fourteen years ago)
"The US non-profit route is a nightmare of paperwork, btw. The most straightforward US structure I found was a co-op or club model."
could ilx partner up with an existing non-profit?I know non-profit art groups are allowed to distribute funds to other groups or clubs, like say if a group of people wanted to do a stage production of Crank 2, you could donate to the established non-profit, and they could pay for the production, because it falls under their mission of promoting the arts.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:08 (fourteen years ago)
superpac
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:31 (fourteen years ago)
yeah, we'll def be able to agree on a charity.
― rocognise gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:37 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, could we hook up with Vermin Supreme's campaign somehow?
― Angrrau Birds (seandalai), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:38 (fourteen years ago)
can't the money just be held in an escrow account?
― rocognise gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:42 (fourteen years ago)
if there was ever to be real surplus cash i'd want to spend it on stuff for here, like maybe paying to get an android app thrown together, or some fancy-schmancy css theme that still looked like it was from 1994 except with a gradient here and a rounded edge there, or some better ways of sharing (legal!) files posted by users.
― stet, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:44 (fourteen years ago)
android app would be great
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:46 (fourteen years ago)
It's really not a huge problem, tbh. It's only because there's a potential income tax issue for me, but am pretty relaxed about this. xp
― stet, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:47 (fourteen years ago)
OK, the new server is up and running. Only has the sandbox for now:http://two.ilxor.com/sandbox/
― stet, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:31 (fourteen years ago)
Seems p fast! Or is that just cos sandbox is smaller DB? Either way, awesome, that was quick!
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:35 (fourteen years ago)
It should seem a lot faster, it's on a quad-core box (and the entire DB fits in memory, ha)
― stet, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:35 (fourteen years ago)
quad core here, people.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:46 (fourteen years ago)
the quicker to sb you with, said grandma
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:48 (fourteen years ago)
I love stet so much.
Marry me?
― quincie, Thursday, 19 January 2012 01:17 (fourteen years ago)
first you gets the money, then you gets the processing power.....
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 01:20 (fourteen years ago)
http://images.anagrammer.com/s/t/e/t/-/00.thumbnail.stet.jpg
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Thursday, 19 January 2012 02:51 (fourteen years ago)
wicked fast imo!!!
― markers, Thursday, 19 January 2012 02:52 (fourteen years ago)
Thank you e-Stet
http://www.equivio.com/files/files/e-Stet%20logo(1).jpg
― Angrrau Birds (seandalai), Thursday, 19 January 2012 02:53 (fourteen years ago)
missed this
thanks stet so much
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 January 2012 03:57 (fourteen years ago)
Hey that's fast. thank you stet!
This is awesome for many reasons, not least that I can be reunited with the http://two.ilxor.com/sandbox/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=142&threadid=1512 and voraciously download and hoard even more 2011 albums that I'll probably never listen to
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 19 January 2012 11:28 (fourteen years ago)
oh yeah, title does not automatically fill in from the other database, of course it wouldn't
(hangs head in shame)
that thread was the "Magazine/website/record store BEST OF 2011 end-of-year list pile-up" should anyone care
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 19 January 2012 11:30 (fourteen years ago)
like maybe paying to get an android app thrown together
Would donate again for this.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 19 January 2012 11:33 (fourteen years ago)
what would an android app do that surfing on my phone doesn't atm, out of interest?
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 11:41 (fourteen years ago)
a-yo is there any way to transfer this thread:
http://two.ilxor.com/sandbox/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=142&threadid=1766
to ILM proper?
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 11:48 (fourteen years ago)
no, at least, not without a ton o' grief.
xp offline mode, for one. have nearly got this working ON IPHONE
― stet, Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:25 (fourteen years ago)
Oh that'd be nice! I have a HP touchpad..
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:30 (fourteen years ago)
i got a nokia 5230 what's it gonna take stet, be honest i can take it
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:35 (fourteen years ago)
Menu > Internet > Web > Options > Go To > Page > http://m.ilxor.com/ (give that URL 15 minutes or so to go live
― stet, Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:40 (fourteen years ago)
)
i got a nokia 5230
Same here - the unfortunate answer is 'lol ur fone is shit'
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:48 (fourteen years ago)
Sometimes I play the demo of Platinum Solitaire and imagine what it would be like to not be such a cheapskate have a real smartphone.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:51 (fourteen years ago)
it takes my phone 15 mins to load ilx anyway tbh, snoball otm
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:55 (fourteen years ago)
Tried playing the Star Wars STFU demo? Bloody impossible with the crappy resistive touchscreen and the wack CPU.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:56 (fourteen years ago)