I don't know why the arrow keys weren't working for me.  Maybe the wrong part of the window was in focus or something.  Anyway, I decided to clone the repo from git and build it.  I run "./autogen.sh && ./configure" and I note that I need the header files for libdb.    I'm on debian jessie and I'm looking at the build instructions in doc/build-unix.md, it says to add oldstable main to my repos, so I add this:


But I'm not finding the libdb packages which the readme says I should find:


So, obviously I could look for the header for the berkeley db somewhere else, and I can do this, no problem.  I just thought I'd update you guys about the instructions in your readme, maybe they're not so current (or maybe I'm doing something wrong, hehe).

Cheers

I can quote that for you.  There ya go.

Guys, there's a problem with the main clam website.  I go to the OP of this thread, I click on official website looking to download the client,  I see gian pictures oceany things.  15 seconds later, I figure out that there's a hidden nav-bar on the right of the page.  Okay, I open the nav bar,  I see "download clamclient"  I think "yes!".  I click, I see a giant picture of an shipping vessel.  I see text above the vessel "download clamclient", but this is not a link.  I start pressing arrow keys, maybe there's a link below the tanker pic---nothing moves.  I find many many many social media links about clamclient in the in nav-bar, still haven't found where to wget a tar of the client or the source.  I'm not stupid.  I'm using firefox.  Can I get the text version of this page or something?

EDIT: ohmygod, I finally found it.  If i rehide the nav bar on the right, there's like 4 pixel scrollbar that allows the page to scroll down.  Why didn't my arrow keys work?  I'm leaving this post up in case whoever runs the clam site considers this useful feedback about my experience with the website.  I found many large and beautiful pics (which was cool), but it was hard to find any text or links (which was annoying).

OpenJDK has been the default Java on debian (and downstream, I assume) systems for some time now.  You have to go out of your way to get the Sun Java nowadays on the linux distros I use.  I've never built software on windows so I don't know how it compares but on linux you usually just have to run "./configure && make && make install", a lot of newbies can probably do that okay.  Shit, if you can build a windows java guaranteed without spyware, maybe you can start distributing the binaries for the newbies yourself

A newbie offers a message of peace!  TecShare and TomatoCage happily setting examples together for how people should act.  Imagine!

God27, you may know more about it than I do, but doesn't Ripple Labs sell all the original Ripple?  Isn't that how Ripple gets created?  You buy it from Ripple Labs?  It makes sense that they'd say that they plan to be minority holders.  I would too if I were them.  If I could sell off a 100% premined coin to users and then be a "minority holder" that sounds pretty ideal.

I, personally, when it comes to markup languages, have had so little need for things like markdown.  I think it's a great idea, but for me, README files are just fine in plain text.  I don't really need them formatted.  When I need something in HTML, I just write HTML.  When I need a document, I just write LaTeX.  When it's anything else, plain text is usually just fine.  Note, I'm not dissing markdown, I just have never really used it apart from github pages.

@Theymos, what's the deal with the newlines?  I've never run into any issue, is it the old \r\n vs \n thing?

On the assumption that you're actually curious about why Ripple isn't really considered much around here, it has a lot to do with the centralization.  Whereas the "altcoin" family are all, to some degree, clones of bitcoin (yes, they vary the algorithms and the block rates and ceter, but the hallmark is a decentralized ledger kept on a P2P network), Ripple, as far as I understand it, is owned and operated by a single company which, while using some cryptography to secure transactions, doesn't have the main factors that people here find crucial.  The main one of those being decentralization---trustlessness.  The main idea thesis of Satoshi's white paper is how to create a trustless exchange system that doesn't rely on a third party.  People here find that crucial.  I hope this helps.

Thanks for those links (specially the second one), I hadn't seen that.

From what I read recently, nowadays OpenJDK is actually the "standard" jdk.  So, if I were you, I'd turn the question around, is there any reason *not* to use open jdk given that (1) it's free (both kinds of free) and (2) what you mentioned in the OP?

What does this mean?  The parser doesn't care how many characters it has to read.  Maybe you meant to compare [b] to <b>, but <b> is deprecated HTML for mixing presentation (style) with markup (structure), so nowadays we right <strong>.
You may be right that wikimarkup is easier to type, or more effiecient to type.  But,  and FWIW, I find BBCode more transparent for the casual user..  When I edit wikipedia I have to look up again and again whether the label comes before or after the link, how to do a header, etc.  This is because markup like =, ==, '', is concise but not mnemonic.  On the other hand I never forget [quote][code][url][b][i][u] even when I haven't used them for a long time.

For me, this kind of observation leads me to think that 8MB might be a nice compromise between block size and storage.  You could also compromise on the pruning side, say 1GB instead of 500MB, that would be meeting in the middle, right?

But agar.io's base unit doesn't seem to be "kills" but mass.  In your system, killing a fresh guy who just bought in is worth as much as a giant.  And not all giants got big from kills.  You can get reasonbly large from consuming the food the appears. I really think you want to consider kills to be an artifact and consider mass as the real unit for calculation.

It's also for a techy person like me who decides to go ahead and take advantage of, say, bold rather than *bold* in a forum post.

<strong>bold</strong> doesn't work!

After so much speculation about what multibit "might" do, it's good for you to weigh-in here with some authority on the matter.  Thanks Jim!

So, when you logged in at one point, you just saw your forum profile page had been changed to that 1NW address?  That's pretty scary for sure.  I saw your password has recently been changed, that's surely a good idea.  If I were you, I'd see if you can get help from the forum admins looking at IP logs during the time of the breach---there may be some valuable info there both for you and for the admins.

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I'm not going to troll, but I want to offer another facet of navajocoin which has unfortunately been completely overlooked.  They have no official association with the Navajo people and are using the name and symbols of these people without permission.  This kind of behavior goes against the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous peoples.  Unfortunately, when I brought this up in the NAV thread, I mainly got shouted at.  I think the right thing for the navajocoin people to do is to find a way to seek the permission of the Navajo nation to use their symbols and name.  Until they do this, I'm not going to be a part of yet another story of cultural appropriation against native peoples of America.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the Navajocoin people intend to be disrespectful, but until they do the right thing and recognize that it's not okay just to slurp up the symbology of a people and pretend that it's yours then you're not doing the right thing even if you do have good intentions.  And I'm not saying the coin isn't solid or that the devs aren't smart.  I'm just saying that this branding has intellectual property issues which strike at the heart of the sad history of relations between indigenous people and colonialists on this continent.

It's a fun idea from the OP, but for it to happen, he's going to have to be mining it himself too (in order to validate deposits and withdrawals.  His idea is that people can start to trade it for themselves if his casino becomes popular but to allow that to happen, you have to have enough hashing power to keep others from taking over your blockchain.  In the end, it seems like alot of resources to put towards the idea that your casino might get popular.  If I were you, I'd focus on getting your casino popular first by taking bitcoin deposits and withdrawals and users play with an internal token (chips!).  Then, if you have enought success at that, you can start offering your own coin and at that point you'll have a userbase to experiment with (offer them some discount if they start using your crypto rather than the chips).

It comes from a very old English expression "to give someone the bag".  The current idiom is "be left holding the back" which means be left with the negative consequences of something.  See this for the source:  http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/be+left+holding+the+bag

Thanks man.  CLAM is surprisingly stable.  I'd say that's a good thing for newish crypto to have been able to establish a price point and hold it.  I don't think I've seen that from many (any?) altcoins other than LTC.