[XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency

[smooth]

I was able to sync bytecoin full client with less than 4G of ram, but could not with the monero full client. Is the dev team still active ? How come this has not ported to monero ?

Use the current test version from github. Memory needed is <100M

[americanpegasus]

I was able to sync bytecoin full client with less than 4G of ram, but could not with the monero full client. Is the dev team still active ? How come this has not ported to monero ?

Use the current test version from github. Memory needed is <100M

 
 
Whoa, really?  That's a big deal!  Very nice.

[smooth]

I was able to sync bytecoin full client with less than 4G of ram, but could not with the monero full client. Is the dev team still active ? How come this has not ported to monero ?

Use the current test version from github. Memory needed is <100M

 
  
Whoa, really?  That's a big deal!  Very nice.

Yup. Quoting fluffypony:

Runs just fine on a Raspberry Pi 1 with 256mb RAM, so I guess he must be talking about running it on a 486 DX2 66.

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I haven't tried it on a RPi 1 but I do have it running on a RPi 2. It synced in a few days on internal storage. Supposedly it is much faster if you plug in a USB SSD.

[fluffypony]

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I have a distinct lack of 486s in my life;)

[wpalczynski]

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I have a distinct lack of 486s in my life;)

My first PC was a 486DX/33, thats how old I am.

[fluffypony]

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I have a distinct lack of 486s in my life;)

My first PC was a 486DX/33, thats how old I am.

Mine was a Commodore 64, and then I learnt to program an 8086 with GW-BASIC.

[wpalczynski]

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I have a distinct lack of 486s in my life;)

My first PC was a 486DX/33, thats how old I am.

Mine was a Commodore 64, and then I learnt to program an 8086 with GW-BASIC.

I guess I got into computers a lot later than you, I guess i was around 12 or 13 so back in 1990 or 1991.  Yourself?

[aminorex]

Mine was a Commodore 64, and then I learnt to program an 8086 with GW-BASIC.

never owned one, but learned to program on a univac 1100 using hollerith cards, fortran iv.  styles have changed.  now i am fond of julia.  emacs just goes on and on, however.... i still think the pinnacle of development environment technology was zmacs\genera\symbolics, however.

[fluffypony]

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I have a distinct lack of 486s in my life;)

My first PC was a 486DX/33, thats how old I am.

Mine was a Commodore 64, and then I learnt to program an 8086 with GW-BASIC.

I guess I got into computers a lot later than you, I guess i was around 12 or 13 so back in 1990 or 1991.  Yourself?

Mid-80s, my earliest actual computer memories (not those imagined from looking at old photos) are probably 1987 on a 286 (everything I was given was hand-me-downs so I could break them, lol) using programming books from the library and modifying things to work on GW-BASIC (and later QuickBasic / QBasic / PowerBasic)

[wpalczynski]

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I have a distinct lack of 486s in my life;)

My first PC was a 486DX/33, thats how old I am.

Mine was a Commodore 64, and then I learnt to program an 8086 with GW-BASIC.

I guess I got into computers a lot later than you, I guess i was around 12 or 13 so back in 1990 or 1991.  Yourself?

Mid-80s, my earliest actual computer memories (not those imagined from looking at old photos) are probably 1987 on a 286 (everything I was given was hand-me-downs so I could break them, lol) using programming books from the library and modifying things to work on GW-BASIC (and later QuickBasic / QBasic / PowerBasic)

How old were you when you got your first hand me down and started playing with it?

[luigi1111]

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I have a distinct lack of 486s in my life;)

My first PC was a 486DX/33, thats how old I am.

Mine was a Commodore 64, and then I learnt to program an 8086 with GW-BASIC.

I guess I got into computers a lot later than you, I guess i was around 12 or 13 so back in 1990 or 1991.  Yourself?

Mid-80s, my earliest actual computer memories (not those imagined from looking at old photos) are probably 1987 on a 286 (everything I was given was hand-me-downs so I could break them, lol) using programming books from the library and modifying things to work on GW-BASIC (and later QuickBasic / QBasic / PowerBasic)

How old were you when you got your first hand me down and started playing with it?

I was 5 or 6 I think. But, then, I'm younger than you guys.

[cAPSLOCK]

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I have a distinct lack of 486s in my life;)

My first PC was a 486DX/33, thats how old I am.

Mine was a Commodore 64, and then I learnt to program an 8086 with GW-BASIC.

I guess I got into computers a lot later than you, I guess i was around 12 or 13 so back in 1990 or 1991.  Yourself?

Mid-80s, my earliest actual computer memories (not those imagined from looking at old photos) are probably 1987 on a 286 (everything I was given was hand-me-downs so I could break them, lol) using programming books from the library and modifying things to work on GW-BASIC (and later QuickBasic / QBasic / PowerBasic)

TRS-80

nuff said.

[wpalczynski]

I'll disagree with that though, it possibly could work on a 486 DX2 66.

I have a distinct lack of 486s in my life;)

My first PC was a 486DX/33, thats how old I am.

Mine was a Commodore 64, and then I learnt to program an 8086 with GW-BASIC.

I guess I got into computers a lot later than you, I guess i was around 12 or 13 so back in 1990 or 1991.  Yourself?

Mid-80s, my earliest actual computer memories (not those imagined from looking at old photos) are probably 1987 on a 286 (everything I was given was hand-me-downs so I could break them, lol) using programming books from the library and modifying things to work on GW-BASIC (and later QuickBasic / QBasic / PowerBasic)

TRS-80

nuff said.

Now Im expecting someone to chime in about punch cards or maybe even vacuum tubes.

[americanpegasus]

My first compy was a handme down TI-99A using TI-BASIC.   I then remember getting a decent copy of Qbasic running on a handmedown Amstrad (GEM what what) and that was amazing...  Then once in high school the Pentiums were the rage.   In high school they taught us some Fortran and Pascal.  Like many kids, I thought I wanted to make video games when I grew up....  But my passion was always more creative and less analytical.  It was the world creation and writing that excited me, not necessarily the technical aspects.  
  
In college,  the fucking University of South Carolina kept telling us how Java was the future of software development and made us all learn that (vs. C or C++ like we should have been learning).  
  
Even though I dropped out, those years of studying programming, hardware level programming, really hard problems (NP vs P, etc) were invaluable.  I'm fortunate to have just enough knowledge to understand the basics of what bitcoin, Monero, and cryptocurrency represent.  

[smooth]

Im expecting someone to chime in about punch cards

You're too late

BTW, aminorex, I'm interested in looking at Julia. Can you recommend some resources?

[binaryFate]

 emacs

Yay, good stuff transcends generations

[GingerAle]

486dx2 66, though maybe it was a 33.

civilization, one 3.5 at a time. And Lightspeed. what a great game (at least according to my memory)

[saddambitcoin]

Apple IIGS, all I remember were the games.

then a 386 with a 2400 baud modem.

Too bad I didn't start programming until this year.

[aerbax]

My first compy was a handme down TI-99A ..

TI-99-4a here.  I still have it and the original box. 

Loading games from cassette....I can still hear that sound...

[aminorex]

Im expecting someone to chime in about punch cards

You're too late

in fact, when i was a child my mother used to sew memory. one. bit. at. a. time. ferrite cores, by hand.  true story.

BTW, aminorex, I'm interested in looking at Julia. Can you recommend some resources?

not knowing your  background its hard to pick something pitched at the right speed.  the wikipedia page is a good overview of the features which define its appropriate use cases and has tutorial references. for example,  if you know R then this one is probably a quick route: http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/JuliaForRProgrammers.pdf



for me, it was just a matter of recognizing features from languages i already know (or, more accurately, once knew) well.  there is not a lot of innovation in the language itself.  the attraction for me is that i hate python for its slowness, for the GIL, but need a better alternative for gluing math libraries together, processing unicode text, and distributing computational experiments over networks of gpus, and while julia isn't quite there yet, it seems to be on track to become sufficiently superior to python to compel my conversion - which for me means a minimum bar of about 5x improvement, pragmatic curmudgeon that i am.  i think it will be a contender long before 1.0

the other single most interesting language on pragmatic grounds is Rust, which is shaping up to be a viable replacement to c++/java for more systemsy/data-structurey stuff.