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I read somewhere that XP is the oldest Windows compatible with Armory but can't find that info anymore, am I correct? Apparently that old computer growing old without use had Windows 98 installed instead of XP, jesus. Do I need to install another OS? Naturally talking about the offline use.
Yeah, I should've been focusing on things that were higher priority... but I didn't want to run off down the persistent-blockchain path until I had the auto-bitcoind stuff mostly out of the way. So instead, I've implemented a feature I've been meaning to do for quite a while!
All unlock dialogs now have an "On-Screen Display" keyboard! Simple, off-the-shelf keyloggers won't be of much use if you're using an OSD keyboard. And while it's probably not worth it, I added a "scramble" option so that you can feel ultra safe, even if the keylogger is recording mouse clicks (but not screenshots). I say it's probably not worth it, because it's a cool idea, but it's a total pain in the ass to use! It's almost intolerable, especially if you have a 16-character password like I do! I'm sure someone will use it, though
The managesatoshi branch now reflects 0.87.95, and probably going to move towards merging this into the testing branch. Some people have had some bad experiences with it, but I think the solution is to have a trouble-shooting webpage to help people get over it. There's only some much time I can spend debugging this!
All unlock dialogs now have an "On-Screen Display" keyboard! Simple, off-the-shelf keyloggers won't be of much use if you're using an OSD keyboard. And while it's probably not worth it, I added a "scramble" option so that you can feel ultra safe, even if the keylogger is recording mouse clicks (but not screenshots). I say it's probably not worth it, because it's a cool idea, but it's a total pain in the ass to use! It's almost intolerable, especially if you have a 16-character password like I do! I'm sure someone will use it, though
The managesatoshi branch now reflects 0.87.95, and probably going to move towards merging this into the testing branch. Some people have had some bad experiences with it, but I think the solution is to have a trouble-shooting webpage to help people get over it. There's only some much time I can spend debugging this!
This may have been asked before, but is there nothing can be done to mitigate the one hour freeze of my laptop whenever I start Armory?
Does it freeze? I should run but be in offline mode. If your laptop is lower on the RAM spectrum, then I suppose it can take a while...
I'm starting on the RAM reduction stuff this week. I have no idea how long it's going to take, but I expect a week or two. Then you shouldn't have these problems anymore.
Nah, it's online, freezes in the reading blockchain part. My laptop has got 5G of RAM, not sure how much is freely available at the time I started it though.
I assume you're running 0.87.2? Before 0.8-something, I didn't have multi-threaded blockchain operations, which meant that it froze for everyone when it started up. But that was a while ago, I assume you have the latest...
Yes, 0.87.2, so if it's all gonna be resolved in 0.88 I am definitely gonna compile it right, I was just too lazy to install that many additional packages.
Come on Alan, you got too good a memory.
This may have been asked before, but is there nothing can be done to mitigate the one hour freeze of my laptop whenever I start Armory?
Does it freeze? I should run but be in offline mode. If your laptop is lower on the RAM spectrum, then I suppose it can take a while...
I'm starting on the RAM reduction stuff this week. I have no idea how long it's going to take, but I expect a week or two. Then you shouldn't have these problems anymore.
Nah, it's online, freezes in the reading blockchain part. My laptop has got 5G of RAM, not sure how much is freely available at the time I started it though.
I assume you're running 0.87.2? Before 0.8-something, I didn't have multi-threaded blockchain operations, which meant that it froze for everyone when it started up. But that was a while ago, I assume you have the latest...
This may have been asked before, but is there nothing can be done to mitigate the one hour freeze of my laptop whenever I start Armory?
Does it freeze? I should run but be in offline mode. If your laptop is lower on the RAM spectrum, then I suppose it can take a while...
I'm starting on the RAM reduction stuff this week. I have no idea how long it's going to take, but I expect a week or two. Then you shouldn't have these problems anymore.
Nah, it's online, freezes in the reading blockchain part. My laptop has got 5G of RAM, not sure how much is freely available at the time I started it though.
This may have been asked before, but is there nothing can be done to mitigate the one hour freeze of my laptop whenever I start Armory?
Does it freeze? I should run but be in offline mode. If your laptop is lower on the RAM spectrum, then I suppose it can take a while...
I'm starting on the RAM reduction stuff this week. I have no idea how long it's going to take, but I expect a week or two. Then you shouldn't have these problems anymore.
This may have been asked before, but is there nothing can be done to mitigate the one hour freeze of my laptop whenever I start Armory?
PLEASE help me figure this out! I have just released the latest, 0.87.92, installation instructions below. Note that more than just auto-management has been added. I also made the little "(?)" icons clickable, and reduced the number of windows you have to click through to use offline wallets.
Linux:
-- Pull and switch branches: "git checkout managesatoshi"
-- Must install python-psutil package. This is a new dependency to help with managing the background process. It will be added to the next offline bundle.
-- Recompile
Ok, I compiled it with signature checking. I don`t know what did you sign exactly (commit itself or its id, I don`t know how this realized in git, but probably in the right way I hope), but gpg says it is ok Linux:
-- Pull and switch branches: "git checkout managesatoshi"
-- Must install python-psutil package. This is a new dependency to help with managing the background process. It will be added to the next offline bundle.
-- Recompile
The first start says that I shouldn`t start bitcoind, so I click "Change Settings" and here what was in terminal:Code:
(ERROR) Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/ArmoryQt.py", line 716, in openSettings
dlgSettings = DlgSettings(self, self)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdialogs.py", line 9913, in __init__
'specified format.' % exampleStr )
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 203, in __init__
self.setText(txt, **kwargs)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 206, in setText
text = str(text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 228-229: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/ArmoryQt.py", line 716, in openSettings
dlgSettings = DlgSettings(self, self)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdialogs.py", line 9913, in __init__
'specified format.' % exampleStr )
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 203, in __init__
self.setText(txt, **kwargs)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 206, in setText
text = str(text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 228-229: ordinal not in range(128)
Also this happen when I go to File-Settings. Since then I can`t point bitcoind to Tor, I hope in Settings I can append commands to bitcoind when it works.File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/ArmoryQt.py", line 716, in openSettings
dlgSettings = DlgSettings(self, self)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdialogs.py", line 9913, in __init__
'specified format.' % exampleStr )
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 203, in __init__
self.setText(txt, **kwargs)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 206, in setText
text = str(text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 228-229: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/ArmoryQt.py", line 716, in openSettings
dlgSettings = DlgSettings(self, self)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdialogs.py", line 9913, in __init__
'specified format.' % exampleStr )
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 203, in __init__
self.setText(txt, **kwargs)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 206, in setText
text = str(text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 228-229: ordinal not in range(128)
On exit I get this
Code:
error: couldn't connect to server
If it is caused by lack of Internet then it`s ok P.S. On Arch Linux, python2-psutils is needed.
Ahh yeah, back to the unicode issues. I just don't have support for unicode yet, so I guess non-English/ASCII-native systems will have trouble. That is something I was going to fix when I upgrade the wallets.
As for adding command line arguments to bitcoind/bitcoin-qt... I hadn't planned on it. I figured, if you are using non-standard command line arguments (that aren't configurable in your bitcoin.conf, then you'll probably just turn off auto-bitcoind management anyway.
PLEASE help me figure this out! I have just released the latest, 0.87.92, installation instructions below. Note that more than just auto-management has been added. I also made the little "(?)" icons clickable, and reduced the number of windows you have to click through to use offline wallets.
Linux:
-- Pull and switch branches: "git checkout managesatoshi"
-- Must install python-psutil package. This is a new dependency to help with managing the background process. It will be added to the next offline bundle.
-- Recompile
Ok, I compiled it with signature checking. I don`t know what did you sign exactly (commit itself or its id, I don`t know how this realized in git, but probably in the right way I hope), but gpg says it is ok Linux:
-- Pull and switch branches: "git checkout managesatoshi"
-- Must install python-psutil package. This is a new dependency to help with managing the background process. It will be added to the next offline bundle.
-- Recompile
The first start says that I shouldn`t start bitcoind, so I click "Change Settings" and here what was in terminal:Code:
(ERROR) Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/ArmoryQt.py", line 716, in openSettings
dlgSettings = DlgSettings(self, self)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdialogs.py", line 9913, in __init__
'specified format.' % exampleStr )
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 203, in __init__
self.setText(txt, **kwargs)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 206, in setText
text = str(text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 228-229: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/ArmoryQt.py", line 716, in openSettings
dlgSettings = DlgSettings(self, self)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdialogs.py", line 9913, in __init__
'specified format.' % exampleStr )
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 203, in __init__
self.setText(txt, **kwargs)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 206, in setText
text = str(text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 228-229: ordinal not in range(128)
Also this happen when I go to File-Settings. Since then I can`t point bitcoind to Tor, I hope in Settings I can append commands to bitcoind when it works.File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/ArmoryQt.py", line 716, in openSettings
dlgSettings = DlgSettings(self, self)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdialogs.py", line 9913, in __init__
'specified format.' % exampleStr )
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 203, in __init__
self.setText(txt, **kwargs)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 206, in setText
text = str(text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 228-229: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/ArmoryQt.py", line 716, in openSettings
dlgSettings = DlgSettings(self, self)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdialogs.py", line 9913, in __init__
'specified format.' % exampleStr )
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 203, in __init__
self.setText(txt, **kwargs)
File "/opt/BitcoinArmory/qtdefines.py", line 206, in setText
text = str(text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 228-229: ordinal not in range(128)
On exit I get this
Code:
error: couldn't connect to server
If it is caused by lack of Internet then it`s ok P.S. On Arch Linux, python2-psutils is needed.
Haha, nice interview anyway, good job
Did I miss it or did you completely step over the fact what your 'role'/'contribution' is wrt Bitcoin? (aka, the real proof you are an expert). Did you leave out Armory on purpose?
Did I miss it or did you completely step over the fact what your 'role'/'contribution' is wrt Bitcoin? (aka, the real proof you are an expert). Did you leave out Armory on purpose?
They literally called me and said "Hey we're from this radio station and want to interview you? How bout in 10 minutes?" I didn't realize it was only going to be a five-minute interview, so I didn't have time to talk about myself. I would have if he asked anything about security, but the topic never came up.
Personally, I'm fine with the way it went. I'd rather try to spread good information about Bitcoin and get people interested in Bitcoin in general, than promote some application for that "Bitcoin thing" that they don't understand. "It's the most secure way to use this thing that you don't care about! Go try it out!"
How did they find you?
I haven't listen to the audio yet, but it would be too bad if you didn't get the chance to tell them that given enough attention, bitcoin is much more scure/less hackable than gold/fiats are.
Great software, however I just upgraded to version .87 beta on ubuntu 12.04 and bitcoin-qt .8.1 and now when Armory start and
scan the block chain it runs for awhile and then crashes. I usually fix things myself, but I need to send some bitcoins for payment.
So could you give me a idea of what may be wrong.
scan the block chain it runs for awhile and then crashes. I usually fix things myself, but I need to send some bitcoins for payment.
So could you give me a idea of what may be wrong.
Does it crash after it finishes scanning? Or during? There's been some issues with upgrading to Bitcoin-Qt 0.8 plus ... it has new blockchain files. Armory 0.87+ should handle it, but sometimes it doesn't play nice. Most often when I hear of Armory crashing during scanning, it's because the blk files became corrupt. Which is unfortunate, since it requires redownloading everything...
Can you send me a log file? You can export it while it's scanning. Email or PM.
Also, you might try the newest version of Armory, but you have to build from source -- it's quite simple though:
Quote
1. $ sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential pyqt4-dev-tools swig libqtcore4 libqt4-dev python-qt4 python-dev python-twisted python-psutil
2. $ git clone git://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory.git
3. $ cd BitcoinArmory
3a. $ git checkout managesatoshi #(extra step to access 0.87.9)
4. $ make
5. $ python ArmoryQt.py
2. $ git clone git://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory.git
3. $ cd BitcoinArmory
3a. $ git checkout managesatoshi #(extra step to access 0.87.9)
4. $ make
5. $ python ArmoryQt.py
Not only might it fix your problem (or make it worse!), but the log file contains a LOT more useful information for me. So if that fails, let me know (you'll have to either let it run bitcoind for you, or open the settings and select that you want to run it yourself).
It is just scanning, then it crashes, so I guess it is while it is scanning.
Ok, I have build it from source already, I will try the new version 0.87.9
and yes it is easy to build, thanks for the good instructions.
I will let you know if that fixes the problem, or I will send you the log file.
Thanks Again.
Sorry, didn'r follow up on the last few pages.
I just noticed:
I have an encrypted wallet. I want to add a comment to an address or transaction, I doubleclick it and type away. The comment isn't saved, though. I am not asked to enter my passphrase neither. And I don't see a manual way to unlock the wallet (without creating a tx).
Armory 0.87-beta
Ente
I just noticed:
I have an encrypted wallet. I want to add a comment to an address or transaction, I doubleclick it and type away. The comment isn't saved, though. I am not asked to enter my passphrase neither. And I don't see a manual way to unlock the wallet (without creating a tx).
Armory 0.87-beta
Ente
Found it, more-or-less coincidently.
I can -of course- edit and create comments, even in encrypted wallets. No password needed.
Here, it failed (silently) when adding those weird german umlaute, like ä ö and ü ;-)
Cheers!
Ente
Well done Alan
On short notice, I got a call from a radio station in Ottawa, Canada yesterday who wanted to interview me about Bitcoin. Only 7 minutes:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
Nice, for the 7 mins it was a good interview.
Haha, nice interview anyway, good job
Did I miss it or did you completely step over the fact what your 'role'/'contribution' is wrt Bitcoin? (aka, the real proof you are an expert). Did you leave out Armory on purpose?
Did I miss it or did you completely step over the fact what your 'role'/'contribution' is wrt Bitcoin? (aka, the real proof you are an expert). Did you leave out Armory on purpose?
They literally called me and said "Hey we're from this radio station and want to interview you? How bout in 10 minutes?" I didn't realize it was only going to be a five-minute interview, so I didn't have time to talk about myself. I would have if he asked anything about security, but the topic never came up.
Personally, I'm fine with the way it went. I'd rather try to spread good information about Bitcoin and get people interested in Bitcoin in general, than promote some application for that "Bitcoin thing" that they don't understand. "It's the most secure way to use this thing that you don't care about! Go try it out!"
Wow nice preparation on their part
I'm more impressed now that it's an ad-hoc interview. Much easier to do such things when given time to prepare. I also wholeheartedly agree talking about Bitcoin to people not knowing about Bitcoin is smarter, I just expected a segue to what you do followed by a one/two sentence explanation. May be just call it a security software package for managing your Bitcoins?
Haha, nice interview anyway, good job
Did I miss it or did you completely step over the fact what your 'role'/'contribution' is wrt Bitcoin? (aka, the real proof you are an expert). Did you leave out Armory on purpose?
Did I miss it or did you completely step over the fact what your 'role'/'contribution' is wrt Bitcoin? (aka, the real proof you are an expert). Did you leave out Armory on purpose?
They literally called me and said "Hey we're from this radio station and want to interview you? How bout in 10 minutes?" I didn't realize it was only going to be a five-minute interview, so I didn't have time to talk about myself. I would have if he asked anything about security, but the topic never came up.
Personally, I'm fine with the way it went. I'd rather try to spread good information about Bitcoin and get people interested in Bitcoin in general, than promote some application for that "Bitcoin thing" that they don't understand. "It's the most secure way to use this thing that you don't care about! Go try it out!"
On short notice, I got a call from a radio station in Ottawa, Canada yesterday who wanted to interview me about Bitcoin. Only 7 minutes:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
This deserves to be in press so I added a topic there. (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1750012)
Did you set up a company for developing Armory?
I've never mentioned an Armory-based company, I think they were just trying to beef up my "resume" so they had an excuse to call me an expert. Probably don't need an excuse, but it sounds better
Haha, nice interview anyway, good job
Did I miss it or did you completely step over the fact what your 'role'/'contribution' is wrt Bitcoin? (aka, the real proof you are an expert). Did you leave out Armory on purpose?
On short notice, I got a call from a radio station in Ottawa, Canada yesterday who wanted to interview me about Bitcoin. Only 7 minutes:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
This deserves to be in press so I added a topic there. (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1750012)
Did you set up a company for developing Armory?
I've never mentioned an Armory-based company, I think they were just trying to beef up my "resume" so they had an excuse to call me an expert. Probably don't need an excuse, but it sounds better
On short notice, I got a call from a radio station in Ottawa, Canada yesterday who wanted to interview me about Bitcoin. Only 7 minutes:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
This deserves to be in press so I added a topic there. (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1750012)
Did you set up a company for developing Armory?
On short notice, I got a call from a radio station in Ottawa, Canada yesterday who wanted to interview me about Bitcoin. Only 7 minutes:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1139081/BitcoinShare/ae.alan.reiner.13.04.04.mp3
I gotta work on some of my talking points, but I don't think it was too bad. I just think I made it sound too hard. "Find an exchange or find someone who has some and will sell or trade for it". "Anyone with a computer or phone can use it." Meh, with some more experience I'll get it all ironed out
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