This morning I accidentally spent a little of the WBX funds I'm holding.  I replaced the funds as soon as I noticed.

See http://blockexplorer.com/address/1DodGYjF5LFoKg186jANZV9U8znXjagSzS for details.

It appears nobody noticed my slip-up, but I thought I should mention it anyway.

She asked for "facts and evidence".  Not vague hand-waving.  "Red flags"?  Come on...

I have no agenda against your site at all.  I see you doing things that are likely to put people off playing there, including being too heavy-handed with your suspicions about friends colluding.  You've said before that you thought Doug and I were the same person because we both had "British Columbia IPs".  The province of British Columbia is a big place, bigger than France, hence my silly "I hope you're not in the same province as your girlfriend" quip.

I don't know how to read the information.  What does this tell you?  I really don't think the computer has ever been dropped or even bumped.


If that's saying I've turned the computer on and off 94 times, then I find that hard to believe.  I would expect something less than 20 to be the true figure - possibly even less than 10.  Unless it's counting when I close the lid and it goes into a suspended state, in which case I can quite believe the number.  I often have uptimes of over a week, and never reboot into Windows.

Edit: weird how bold spaces are narrower than regular spaces, messing up the table layout

Do you think it's worth printing out some smartmontools output to put in the package with the laptop when I send it back?

What's a good smartctl command to get a reasonable amount of output for printing?

What I don't want is to wait 10 days and get the laptop back with a note saying "looks fine to us".

The 'long' test just finished:


Edit: I notice that the '-H' (health) check tells me it 'passed':

I'm not disputing that you paid us.  Thanks a lot for the free money, and it has been mostly a very pleasant experience playing at your casino and interacting with the other players.

What I could have done without was the string of false accusations from the CEO.  My friends and I aren't the only targets of your paranoia; I've been at a poker table before watched as you accused JoeyMajik of being an undercover cop come to catch you in the act of letting USA players gamble, and the Portuguese players have also had their own share of trouble for daring to want to play poker together.

I understand you need to be cautious in your position because people will try to scam you but you can't go throwing your weight around willy nilly like you do, or you'll scare all your players away.

And if you do feel you have reasonable doubt about people's identities, instead of "you're a liar, your girlfriend is imaginary and you have multiple personalities", it might be better to say "could you and your girlfriend please send me copies of your ID documents?"

Or carry on as you are.  Makes no difference to me now.

The laptop manufacturer seems to think that the warranty only lasts for 90 days.  I didn't buy an extended warranty.  I can manage without the laptop for the 7 to 10 days they claim the repair will take.

Thanks for your input though.  Maybe if I hadn't just spent 24 hours backing up the hard drive and arrange for a courier to pick it up I would consider just remapping the bad sectors. 

Thanks.  I tried replying before when I noticed the thread was unlocked, but you locked it again before I could finish typing.  I ended up posting my reply here, but now I'll put it here where it belongs.


So to be clear you're not retracting the part about me being a liar?


I have asked for no such thing.  Where do you get this stuff from?


I didn't elect to take them with me, you asked me to.  Remember the following?


I contacted my friends, giving them a link to this thread so they could see what was going on.  I agree that it makes you look bad, but I don't think any of that is my doing.



I don't want the thread removed.  I want it to stand as a warning to potential customers to the type of treatment they can expect to receive from your company.

It's quite incredible how badly you have managed this.  If you had any doubts about the identity of the players at your site you should have spoken to them.  I'm sure they would have been happy to video chat with you, send you copies of passports, driving licenses, or whatever.

To post an attacking rant like you did is simply unprofessional and offensive.

I would prefer to be able to refute your claims in the thread in which you made them.

I also wish you would tell the truth, rather than this talk of me wanting threads deleted and electing to take my friends with me.

I had an issue with a 6 week old laptop a couple of days ago where it just hung while running Linux, and after rebooting it, the blockchain files were corrupted.

I asked for advice on the ##linux freenode IRC channel and got the following:


Is that reasonable advice?  I didn't know about the 'badblocks' command to remap bad blocks, but if it's the case that bad disks tend to get worse quickly perhaps I'm best off returning it for replacement.

I ran the 'short' SMART test mentioned above, and that passed:


and the 'long' test is currently running.  I bought the laptop 5.5 weeks ago, and according to the test result above, it's been on for 834 hours (4.9 weeks).  So it does look like it was new when I got it, and it worked flawlessly until it didn't.

Comments?

The thread I'm replying to was temporarily unlocked then relocked again before I could reply, so I'm posting here instead.  I hope that's acceptable.  If the original thread is ever unlocked I'll move this post there.


So to be clear you're not retracting the part about me being a liar?


I have asked for no such thing.  Where do you get this stuff from?


I didn't elect to take them with me, you asked me to.  Remember the following?


I contacted my friends, giving them a link to this thread so they could see what was going on.  I agree that it makes you look bad, but I don't think any of that is my doing.



I don't want the thread removed.  I want it to stand as a warning to potential customers to the type of treatment they can expect to receive from your company.

It's quite incredible how badly you have managed this.  If you had any doubts about the identity of the players at your site you should have spoken to them.  I'm sure they would have been happy to video chat with you, send you copies of passports, driving licenses, or whatever.

To post an attacking rant like you did is simply unprofessional and offensive.

I fixed a bug in the analysis script that was misclassifying some small "lessthan 64000" and "lessthan 48000" wins as refunds.

I wonder if you can provoke the bug into happening more often by running a modified bitcoind that simulates blocks being found very rapidly, so there's a much greater chance of the two events coinciding.

It happens with 'under 48000' bets too.  Here are couple of examples:

  bet wins 71 satoshis less than the stake
  bet wins 453 satoshis more than the stake

Yes, it only segfaulted once.  And I was running bitcoin-qt at the time, so you're probably right that the blockchain file was updated while it was being read.

It doesn't seem like it should be all that rare to me - it takes a minute to read the blockchain, and it gets updated every 10 minutes or so, so that sounds like a 1-in-10 chance to me.  I guess maybe it needs to be reading the right bit of the file, and that's why it's rarer.

Either way, perhaps you can't stop it being an error, but probably you could do something other than segfaulting when it happens...

Incidentally, I noticed recently that your SatoshiDice script incorrectly identifies a few hundred winning "under 64000" bets as having been refunded.  The multiplier for those bets is so low that even when you win, you sometimes don't cover the transaction fee that they take off for sending your winnings back to you.  So your returned amount can be slightly more than your bet, and still be a win, and your returned amount can be very close to your bet amount and not be a refund.

I had already done that.  I did a 'make clean' then 'make swig' when I updated from git (which I had to do because my 32 bit Python was getting MemoryError exceptions after the blockchain grew to a certain size, and I was hoping you had fixed the problem in git.


I had already done something similar, like this:


which I think would have the same effect as your suggested change.  I also had already replaced the getTx*Ref with getTx* - (else the script threw exceptions and failed).

Like I say, the script works almost all the time - it only crashed the once, and I've run it a lot of times since switching to the dev branch.

If I ask blockchain.info's wallet to send to 1FVRij1uYQ4E823kwGV55QZQft9QVTJV24, it tells me it's an invalid to address, but if I ask to send to 1FVRij1uYQ4E823kwGV55QZQft9QVTJV23 it asks me for the private key for one of my addresses to do the spend.

So either they've fixed the bug, or you were copy/pasting it wrongly.  Maybe your paste had some invisible formatting in it or something.  Try typing the address rather than copy/pasting it - does that work better?

I just ran the armory sample_armory_code.py to generate SatoshiDice stats and got a crash.  The script said "Let's look at all the bets ever placed at SatoshiDice.com" then "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".

The logfiles showed:

==> /var/log/kern.log <==
Jul 11 02:26:26 chris kernel: [128656.317555] python[29564]: segfault at 4 ip b6c060ed sp bf864c50 error 4 in _CppBlockUtils.so[b6ade000+390000]

This was in git revision 60d513aaee8085, which was the head of the 'dev' branch last time I fetched from the repository (5th July).

I've run the same script many times without a problem, so I can't reproduce the bug, or provide any extra information that might be of use, sorry.  Just: there's a serious crashing bug in there somewhere...

I've spent all day re-downloading the blockchain after a hard drive failure corrupted my copy.  Here's an update to the SatoshiDice stats.  Looks like the site is up over 1000 BTC since the last time I posted.

We don't even know that.  They apparently take weeks to honour bank wire USD withdrawals, and blame it on something to do with Dwolla.  Maybe they were crippled by it but are trying to trade their way out of the mess...

I figured out what's going on.  The house edge is 3.5% on winning bets, and -0.5% on losing bets, making 3.0% overall.