Re: [Bitcoin-development] On-going data spam

re, there is a bit more potential as a bounce pad/egg drop location but not much - no heap spraying as such, or d/c tors, or heap header structs, etc. Im sure someone is sure to come up with something very clever tho. just not me. cheers, steve > > Thanks, > Caleb > > > On 0

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.7.1 release candidate 1 ready for testing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 11/10/2012 16:46, Gavin Andresen wrote: > Any progress on a release candidate QA sanity testing plan? essentially yes - in all seriousness, I have come around to your way of thinking, it is not worth arguing about. we end up in the same place

[Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Re: Bitcoin Testing Project

-0700 From: Peter Vessenes To: steve On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:15 PM, steve wrote: > On 01/10/2012 17:52, Peter Vessenes wrote: >> I'm a big proponent of a testing project. > > I am very happy to hear this, however, your actual words are > slightly evasive. I do not

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

is a top post and there is nothing inline so i snipped it. cheers, steve On 03/10/2012 06:03, Peter Vessenes wrote: > Oops, I accidentally didn't reply-all to Steve. I am ccing my > detailed response to steve to the list since I think people are > wondering about how the Foundation

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2012 03:02, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM, steve wrote: >> Im ready to go, more or less. Please check out the links in my >> previous emails. I have over 400 testcases (8 platforms * 50 >> re

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

an by bless, I take it that is a euphemism for pay? I have tried my hardest to get bettermeans to work, but it doesnt. It does show quite a lot of work that I have done though. If you were to say to me, 'steve, by monday we need end to end, requirements based testing' It would be done. (I have alr

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

ve this world the same way I came into it: backwards > and on fire. - Arklan Uth Oslin > > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:26 PM, steve > wrote: > > Hi Gavin, > > Sorry for the delayed response, I wanted to take a couple of days > to reflect on your email. > &g

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gavin, Sorry for the delayed response, I wanted to take a couple of days to reflect on your email. On 26/09/2012 19:09, Gavin Andresen wrote: And their are other methods too. The GUI::Test package for perl will allow this to be greatly automa

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

ts for 3rd party developers to test their interoperability - this will having nothing to do with git, or mantis. But the solution should be compatible with mantis/zilla) > > Just my 0.002BTC Mark > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:22 AM, steve wrote: >> >> I think you might b

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/09/2012 13:49, Wladimir wrote: > Steve, Hi Wladimir, > >> So, currently there are 4 potential places for bugs to be >> reported 1 - jenkins (and unit tests) 2 - git

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

uff...). Nice, I love testing. I think we will get on :) And I would rather go for interoperability between testing rather than rewriting it all. Cheers, steve > > Matt > > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 19:32 +0100, steve wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> After the failure to

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

processes? even if it is just some encouragement, it is all greatly appreciated. Drop me an email if you want access to the current setup and help me review the different software for the bitcoin workflow process. cheers, steve - -- my PGP public key is at pgp.mit.edu id: 0x5016FB50 -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Testing Project

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/2012 01:07, Gary Rowe wrote: > Hi Steve, > > This looks like a good idea to me. The test suites could act > similarly to the 100% Pure Java approach that successfully fended > off a lot of corrupting influences to Java

[Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Testing Project

nths or so. cheers, steve I do not belive this to be related, but I am not ashamed and feel no stigma. I have posted this on a public forum. I suffer from fast cycling (withing a day) type two bipolar disorder. This has been and is being managed very well by my meds (300mg quetiapine fumerat

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

On 25/07/2012 10:45, Michael Grønager wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I see dramatic differences in performance on virtual machines vs > running directly on the iron. I am not an expert in virtual > machines, They can be, it depends on how they are set up. For reference, these VM's

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

flight to australia tomorrrow, so I will set some breakpoints and do some timings in a debugger. This will all happen on an e-450 (wonderful machine!) Thanks very much for your response. it would seem that I am 'doing it wrong' :/ cheers mate, steve (this message isnt signed because

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

0 with 4gb ram, and approx 3gb/s internet connection it took 2 hours to sync the last 5 days. Maybe i am missing something important... Any additional information that you could provide to help me with testing would be really appreciated. cheers, steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System

Who knows, it might be the only way we'll ever hear from Satoshi again. On Sep 9, 2011 1:21 AM, "Matt Corallo" wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 07:42 -0700, David Perry wrote: >> There has been some discussion on the new Bitcoin StackExchange site >> lately about the alert protocol. A few have sugge

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System

I think there's a significant risk to not having it at this stage. There's many reasons why an urgent update may been to rapidly propagated in this stage of the network's lifecycle. Perhaps if there's a perceived threat of abuse the protocol could be altered slightly so it can't carry content

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoind multiplexing proxy - request/response routing problem

> It's probably best to keep this discussion on just one mailing list. > It's confusing to have duplicate threads in different places. People > will end up making the same points. > Fair enough I'll take it to the bitcoinj list. I wanted to post here in case I got any nibbles from c developer

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoind multiplexing proxy - request/response routing problem

4a/ Serialize all request/response exchanges. i.e. request comes in from remote node, proxy aquires lock on the proxy-localdaemon channel and sends request. Channel remains locked until response is received or timeout (in which case remote node gets no response). Unlock channel after respons

[Bitcoin-development] bitcoind multiplexing proxy - request/response routing problem

This a reworking of a post I made on the bitcoinj list under a different topic but it's something I'd like to throw out there for input. I'm going to build a proof of concept this weekend of the multiplexing proxy that Gavin and Mike were talking about here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/mess

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Building a node crawler to map network

und I'd like to get started on right now. But I'll be onto it as soon as I've got a free moment... On 07/09/11 00:52, Mike Hearn wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Steve <mailto:shadders@gmail.com>> wrote: I'm not really understanding the use case though.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Many-output transactions in the main chain

Is this the ArtForz solidcoin 'attack'? On 07/09/11 01:21, Gavin Andresen wrote: > Somebody has been inserting transactions with lots of outputs into the > main bitcoin block chain: > > http://blockexplorer.com/block/0305f98ffbe1db8445ce847fb9a924551945b465386c828f136f > > Their ne

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Building a node crawler to map network

Hi Mike, I expect I'll be submitting patches for bitcoinj sometime in the future but I'm not really across it yet to the point where I'd be confident submitting patches right now... This proxy sound like a good match for what I've been up to lately though so long as it wouldn't involve direc

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Building a node crawler to map network

r several pools to finish testing and move into production so I'm twiddling thumbs trying to figure out how to spend my time. On 06/09/11 22:49, Mike Hearn wrote: > Actually Steve, take a look at the bitcoinj mailing list today. > Somebody has already built this and has it running. It&

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Building a node crawler to map network

While I'm asking questions I'll add one more regarding the getaddr message. Talking to myself here. I just sent this message then found this brilliant set of articles in the Dev & Tech forum which answers the question very nicely: *https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41722.0

[Bitcoin-development] Building a node crawler to map network

Hi All, I started messing around today with building a node crawler to try and map out the bitcoin network and hopefully provide some useful statistics. It's very basic so far using a mutilated bitcoinj to connect (due me being java developer and not having a clue with c/c++). If it's worth