Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)
It may not be our place to say whether XP is secure or not, but if we say that we support it then we have to run test passes against XP as a platform, and if an XP user reports a bug, then we have to do something to address it. So, it becomes a test and support issue, not a security issue. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to support an OS platform that the original vendor (MS) no longer supports themselves. On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Mark Friedenbach m...@monetize.io wrote: On 04/16/2014 09:27 AM, Kevin wrote: Should we then add an alert message to wallet installers such as, Such and such will not run on windows xp? It's not really our place to police that ... plus it's perfectly safe to be running Bitcoin Core as a full node on XP. It's just the wallet functionality that people should be careful about. We're talking about such a small intersection of people who are running XP, have systems powerful enough to run Bitcoin Core, and use the wallet functionality. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)
You’re right. That’s a huge oversight. I think any software product you’ve ever considered installing has a section that says “Hey, we want this much ram on your system, this much disk space, this processor, etc”. Otherwise, you’re just setting yourself up for a bad user experience from people with marginal machines. On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Mark Friedenbach m...@monetize.io wrote: We don't support XP. In fact we don't support *any* distribution, but I will assume you mean provide a binary which runs on X. Can you find any reference to Windows XP on the website? I can't. On 04/16/2014 09:41 AM, Chris Williams wrote: It may not be our place to say whether XP is secure or not, but if we say that we support it then we have to run test passes against XP as a platform, and if an XP user reports a bug, then we have to do something to address it. So, it becomes a test and support issue, not a security issue. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to support an OS platform that the original vendor (MS) no longer supports themselves. On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Mark Friedenbach m...@monetize.io wrote: On 04/16/2014 09:27 AM, Kevin wrote: Should we then add an alert message to wallet installers such as, Such and such will not run on windows xp? It's not really our place to police that ... plus it's perfectly safe to be running Bitcoin Core as a full node on XP. It's just the wallet functionality that people should be careful about. We're talking about such a small intersection of people who are running XP, have systems powerful enough to run Bitcoin Core, and use the wallet functionality. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?
I’m afraid this is a highly simplistic view of the costs of running a full node. My node consumes fantastic amounts of data traffic, which is a real cost. In the 30 days ending Apri 6, my node: * Received 36.8 gb of data * Sent 456.5 gb data At my geographic service location (Singapore), this cost about $90 last month for bandwidth alone. It would be slightly cheaper if I was hosted in the US of course. But anyone can understand that moving a half-terrabyte of data around in a month will not be cheap. On Apr 7, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Justus Ranvier justusranv...@gmail.com wrote: 1. The resource requirements of a full node are moving beyond the capabilities of casual users. This isn't inherently a problem - after all most people don't grow their own food, tailor their own clothes, or keep blacksmith tools handy in to forge their own horseshoes either. Right now running a full node consumes about $1 in disk space non-reoccurring and costs a couple cents in power per month. This isn't to say things are all ducky. But if you're going to say the resource requirements are beyond the capabilities of casual users I'm afraid I'm going to have to say: citation needed. -- Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees_APR ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -- Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
