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To get to "Amazon.com", you will need to click on an "Amazon.com" text link on one of my other pages, like the Folk Music Bibliography page. I no longer link to "Amazon.com"'s home page here because they screwed me twice.
This page includes graphical links not allowed elsewhere on my site. I am affiliated in one way or another with all the companies with links on this page.
To get to "Amazon.com", you will need to click on an
"Amazon.com" text link on one of my other pages, like the
Folk Music Bibliography page.
I no longer link to "Amazon.com"'s home page here because they
screwed me twice.
1) Effective 1-01-2007: Amazon started fining those who do not do
Direct Deposit. Associates will be punished with $15.00 check processing
fine for every referral check postal mailed. This was unacceptable! I
was forced to remove my Amazon referral code from 151 links and replace it
with a
Green Apple Folk Music Society
referral code. All future purchases you make via Amazon links here will
directly benefit Green Apple. This was way! better than handing over
total access and control of my checking account to Amazon, as well as the
owners of every keylogger installed on my hard drive, but either not
deleted by Spybot, AD-Aware or PC Tools Spyware Doctor, or added anew
since the last cleanup run. The few pennies lost in referrals not earned,
were miniscule compared to the thousands of dollars in Identity Theft
losses resulting from being an Amazon Associate. Keyloggers are the
reason I will NEVER enter my checking account routing number, credit card
number or Social Security card number over the Internet for ANY reason!!
By the time the number even gets to what may be promoted as a secure site,
it has already been stolen by a keylogger.
In comparison, CD Baby sends out paper checks and never charges
anything for doing so. I highly recommend becoming an CD Baby Associate.
2) Effective 9-01-2008, Amazon stopped accepting paper checks or money
orders for all future purchases. As explained above in "Screwed by Amazon
#1", on-line payments are unnaceptable, so I was no longer allowed to order
anything from them.
As above, CD Baby still accepts paper checks and money orders in
payment for anything on their site with no check charges.
WestHost
- hosted my Domain (4/14/2000 - 5/12/2004).
Transmutagen
- hosts my Domain (5/12/2004 - date).
http://www.folklib.net/ [Archive]
Road Runner
from
Time Warner Cable
- provides my Internet connection (7-12-2007 - date).
DLS Internet Services
- (10-16-2004 - 12-15-2005) provided a DEC/VMS operating system where
the EVE/TPU text editor was used to maintain all the HTML code on my
entire Web site. I have been maintaining Web pages this same way since
1994.
12-15-2005: With only two weeks notice, they screwed me by deciding to
go out of the VMS support business. They deleted my account and
permanently powered off their only VMS Server today. This effectively
removed my ability to update this Web site normally. Although I paid for
two years service, they shut down the service after just 14 months and
never refunded anything for the 10 months service not provided. I tried
to purchase a new HP Alpha WorkStation running the OpenVMS Operating
System, but HP has stopped selling them. It took me over seven months to
find a new VMS provider. ... In all fairness to DLS, they did offer to
power back up their VMS Server and just charge me a small "Co-location"
fee to use it. Compared to my previous account which cost $120.00/year,
this new service would only cost me $300/month!
http://www.encompasserve.org/ (DECUServe On-Line Conferencing) - provides a DEC/VMS operating system where their EVE/TPU text editor allowed the resumption of full editing of this site's pages. Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) invented VMS in the early 1980's. As this is the present day version of the original DECUS (DEC Users Society), and VMS users are the only users with accounts of any kind, it is unlikely I will ever lose my VMS login account again.
-
Site Monitoring by InternetSupervision.com
- Uptime Report
(since 8-10-2005) E-Mails me if my entire domain goes off-line
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