A week or so ago I met a very nice Freenoder staffer in the #bitcoin and #bitcoin-dev channels. He told me that the #bitcoin channel turned up on Freenode’s radar as it looks like a Botnet Command and Control channel, but after I explained to him how Bitcoin works and […]

When you want to upload an image to embed in a forum post, there are services like imageshack, but because they’re free, they limit the number of views.  It’s a minuscule amount of bandwidth cost, but they can’t just give it away for free, there has to be something in […]

Hi, I run bitcoin at a nice level of 20 so as not to interfere with other tasks. Every now and then, however, it seems to auto-adjust itself to nice level 2, or even 0. It this by design? Frankly, such a thing should be illegal for a linux application… […]

Quote from: sirius-m on February 24, 2010, 18:17:35 This is strange… When I start Bitcoin as a daemon on my 64 bit Linux server, it eats up all the 250MB of remaining RAM, 700MB of swap and eventually crashes. On my 32 bit Ubuntu desktop, it works fine and stays […]

How encouraging…you’ve just told the poor fellow that even if he does everything right he could still go to jail–you’re making him feel like an ethnic minority! In most cases though, if a lawyer tells you you won’t go to jail, you probably will not go to jail. Newlibertstandard uses […]

When you use SVG or another vector-format, you don’t have the problems you discribed when scaling the logo. Perhaps I’ll give it a go in Illustrator. We have the standard icon sizes, and the full size scales nicely to anything else. I added the full size to the first post. […]

Quote from: Cdecker on February 27, 2010, 17:09:59 Looking through the source of 2.8.10 it appears that unicode is possible with that version too. In the Windows world, “unicode” means UTF-16 (wchar). 2.8 has two build variations, ANSI and UTF-16 (unicode).  The UTF-16 version is the “unicode” version provided in […]

Quote from: Cdecker on February 27, 2010, 03:24:07 How about an SVG version? That way we could automatically generate smaller and larger versions as needed. I don’t know how to do SVG, but I did the original very large, over 500 pixels across, so it can be scaled down.  I’ll […]

Using DB-4.7.25 fixed that problem. I’m now getting this error, though: g++ -O0 -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -D__WXDEBUG__ -D__WXGTK__ -DNOPCH -I”/usr/include” -I”/opt/tdep/include” -o bitcoind -L”/usr/lib” -L”/usr/local/lib” -L”/opt/tdep/lib” obj/nogui/util.o obj/nogui/script.o obj/nogui/db.o obj/nogui/net.o obj/nogui/irc.o obj/nogui/main.o obj/nogui/rpc.o obj/nogui/init.o obj/sha.o -l wx_baseu-2.9 -Wl,-Bstatic -l boost_system -l boost_filesystem -l db_cxx -Wl,-Bdynamic -l crypto -l gthread-2.0 obj/nogui/init.o: […]

Excellent. This would be a good resource for those participating in the banner contest. Why unequal dimensions? My only suggestion would be to make the coin’s text stand out more. At tiny resolutions outlines tend to be come unworkable, so a better option may be to experiment with contrast. Making […]