Hi,
Google are shutting down their Checkout payment platform as of 20th
November 2013, so BitFolk will stop accepting payments that way
around 12th November.
As you may be aware if you are following the other list¹, credit card
payments are now available.
I suggest that refugees from Google Checkout pay by this means in
future, and it would be great if everyone else paying by anything
other than Direct Debit would consider it also.
The initial implementation requires you to input card details every
time and I do understand that is a major usability downside, so we
will improve that as soon as we can to have storage and continuous
authority as *options*.
The credit card payments are going through https://stripe.com/ with
the card details being passed between your browser and Stripe using
JavaScript. All BitFolk gets is a unique token that we use with
Stripe to kick off the payment, so we're not seeing or storing your
card details at any point.
Here's some more info about payment methods that are supported:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Payment_methods
Cheers,
Andy
¹ http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20131021.081408.6fc996c8.en.html
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Hi,
Previously it was noted that kernels compressed with XZ are not
supported:
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20130523.110244.f70b2d77.en.html
As far as I am ware this only affected people trying to run Debian
jessie (testing) since that was the only distribution I know of that
switched to XZ for kernel compression.
I have now added support for XZ compression and it has been tested a
little by myself and a few other customers, so it should now be
working. If you are doing a dist-upgrade from wheezy then it may
still be wise to keep the wheezy kernel around in case of problems.
Also Debian jessie seems to work now as a net install; previously it
was missing a netboot Xen installer and the XZ kernel support also.
Please bear in mind that Debian jessie is an unreleased testing
branch and may break at any time for reasons beyond our control. I
would be interested to know if it is broken at any time, but can't
promise speedy fix.
Cheers,
Andy
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