Quote from: Ground Loop on August 18, 2010, 23:14:26 Any non-Mac i5 love? Windows i5 64-bit got slower here. That’s the first I’ve heard anyone say i5 was slower.  Everyone else has said 4way was faster on i5.  Moreso with hyperthreading enabled. Quote from: nelisky on August 18, 2010, 23:02:25 […]

I wrote up a basic guide on how to compile Bitcoin on Ubuntu. I hope it proves useful to anyone still having issues compiling the graphical client. http://lickthesalt.com/2010/08/19/compiling-bitcoin-on-ubuntu-10-04-karmic/ That’s a really well written walkthough.  Someone should confirm if they followed it and didn’t run into any snags. Related posts: Re: […]

Quote from: BioMike on August 19, 2010, 08:05:18 WxWidgets is not really a problem. My problem is the version that is used (2.9), which is considered unstable by many distro packagers (although the WxWidgets devs say it isn’t). On the other side, as far as I know WxWidgets uses gtk […]

I assume it will take more than 1 second to do. Do we have to do this every time it starts up 🙁 Can we make a menu option for it, to fire it off manually? And make a counter so that it reminds you to check every n loads/days. or […]

The recent upticks in difficulty have been remarkable. At 511.77, I’ve even stopped off those machines where I don’t pay for marginal power consumption. My calculation is that the wear/tear from elevated temperatures and full-speed fans has more risk and cost than the BTC value. (You can question my math.) […]

Do you think we could find some prettier screenshots to the bitcoin.org front page? Maybe Mac screenshot or Windows Aero. Definitely.  The old screenshots of 0.1 are very outdated. Windows Aero is a good choice.  Windows is still the largest user group.  Mind what’s behind it for the transparent parts. […]

Quote from: NewLibertyStandard on August 16, 2010, 22:42:28 How is the strength of the chain calculated? Total proof-of-work. Related posts: Re: checkpointing the block chain What is a bad chain? Could you elaborate more on… Re: Checking the block chain on load I assume it will take more than 1 […]

Quote from: laszlo on August 16, 2010, 22:13:00 So at this point, would a client that has not upgraded also have the correct chain? Yes. The only exception would be if an unpatched client made another fake transaction and managed to verify it. They would be able to spread that […]

What is a bad chain? Could you elaborate more on why checkpoints are bad? There is no way for the software to automatically know if one chain is better than another except by the greatest proof-of-work.  In the design it was necessary for it to switch to a longer chain […]

SVN rev 139 does a basic check of the block chain after loading. With this we wouldn’t have needed to delete blk*.dat, it would have automatically done a reorg back to the fork.  There wasn’t time to do a careful implementation of this at the time. It might take longer […]