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Merry XSmas everyone!

[Yeah, A cheque would do it too. It's just that online is easier.]

Originally posted by smilodon@Dec 3 2004, 06:37 PM
Yeah, A cheque would do it too. It's just that online is easier.

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If i were to set up a paypal account, would that be ok? Then you could donate when you were happy that I had completed the trip, and after i post the photo diary.

[get them to do it then. I'm sure they'll make a hell of a lot more money if it is easy for peeps to sponsor.]

Originally posted by BlueBall@Dec 1 2004, 08:37 PM
get them to do it then. I'm sure they'll make a hell of a lot more money if it is easy for peeps to sponsor.

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I e-mailed the people who organise the B2B event, and got the following reply:

Hi John,

Unfortunatly RAG cannot be a registered charity as we're part of the Union
which is itself a registered charity. I have been looking into the
possibility of online dontations via another provider but the rest of the
committee dont seem keen on the idea... perhaps they will change their mind
when they see your email.

Was just wondering if your sponsors prefer to use JustGiving specifically,
or would they still give if we set up online donations through someone else?

Thanks for your interest!

Si

Not sure if you would still consider sponsorship if we used another provider....?

Thanks again guys.
John

Thanks for the quick replies guys, and the sponsorships.
I tried to find the charity on the website you sent me, but they don't appear. You can submit the charities, but as I am not the event organiser, i don't feel i have the right to do this...

In late March of 2005, me along with a group of students from Sheffield Uni are planning to "bum it" across Europe to Bucharest in Romania for charity.
The sheme has run for 2 years now, and is called B2B. It starts at Bar One in sheffield, and people have to hitchhike or blag travel to the designated destination beginning with B. In the first year it was to Brighton, the year after Budapest, and this year we're off to Bucharest.

The money raised will go to the Relief Fund for Romania. As some of you may know, Romania suffered under one of the most brutal dictatorship in eastern Europe, and those of you over the age of 16 will probably remeber the crisis with Romanian orphans in the early 90's.

I will personally be paying £180 to go on this trip, but I also have to put a guarenteed sponsorship cheque of £100 down, as the scheme is expensive to run and they need a guarenteed minumn commitment from everyone taking part.

I was just wondering if anybody would be kind enough to sponsor me in this epic hitchhike across Europe. Any amount you feel you would like to put down would be greatly appreciated. We aren't leaving until march 19th, hoping to complete and arrive in Bucharest by the 26th.

My group will be keeping a photo diary, and this will be made avaliable to anybody who wants to view it, and will also serve as proof to my sponsors i actually made it all the way!

Thank you kind people

John

Firefox is finally out of beta.

Version 1.0 is now out (not the preview)!

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...Setup%201.0.exe

[http://www.nexusthegame.com/I've been interested in this one since I first saw a preview a few months back, and despite being underwhelmed by the demo (it was just very hard, and would have benefited from a tutorial or at least better instructions) I picked it up today.It's really pretty spiffy, but incredibly slow. Sort of like a chess version of Homeworld with a firm emphasis on tactics. Intriguingly you control a maximum of ten units, all capital ships (or corvettes). Fighters are in there, but you don't have direct control over them.It's strikingly different, very attractive, and has very reasonable system specs (I have seen no slowdown at all on my computer, and I run it at max detail). The clincher for me while I was waiting for it was that once upon a time it was going to be Imperium Galactica III, and although it no longer bears much relationship to that excellent series, it is every bit as good.]

Originally posted by Maus@Nov 5 2004, 10:30 PM
http://www.nexusthegame.com/

I've been interested in this one since I first saw a preview a few months back, and despite being underwhelmed by the demo (it was just very hard, and would have benefited from a tutorial or at least better instructions) I picked it up today.

It's really pretty spiffy, but incredibly slow. Sort of like a chess version of Homeworld with a firm emphasis on tactics. Intriguingly you control a maximum of ten units, all capital ships (or corvettes). Fighters are in there, but you don't have direct control over them.

It's strikingly different, very attractive, and has very reasonable system specs (I have seen no slowdown at all on my computer, and I run it at max detail). The clincher for me while I was waiting for it was that once upon a time it was going to be Imperium Galactica III, and although it no longer bears much relationship to that excellent series, it is every bit as good.

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OMG!

This looks like homeworld, just with really sexy graphics! What sort of puter do you need to run it? Do you think my old GF3 ti200 would run it. I have a 2100+ processor.....

Smite, if you are bored, do you think there is any chance of you making me a cool spray?
Would be very much appreciated.
Cheers
John

[Im dissapointed i was expecting Fluffiness]

Originally posted by smite@Oct 27 2004, 05:55 PM
Im dissapointed i was expecting Fluffiness

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Squonk is a gimp. I was 15 there, I am a lot fluffier now smite, don't worry. Your mental image is probably pretty close.

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Thank You everyone!

Hey Guys,
Just to let you know, I won't be playing CS for a bit. I am off to university tomorrow, and probablly won't have internet access sorted for a good few weeks.
Hope to see you in the near future.

John :byebye:  :byebye:  :byebye:  :byesad:

I seriously doubt they will take any notice of these petitions. The amount of money they must have invested in developing steam(ing pile of shit), will make it impossible for them to take it down. They would probablly have to withdraw 1.6 completly

Let me see some :worship: smileys squonk

I challenge squonk to AOK anytime, with zero fear

When I want to watch a DivX downstairs, I simply hook up the TV-Out on my laptop to the TV, and stream the video over my wireless LAN.
Works pretty well. The picture and sound quality remains pretty much unchanged.