[Scid-users] hashtable size?

2017-12-17 Thread Jai Dayal
When I load stockfish and look at the settings via SCID interface, it says Hashtable 16. What units are the 16? MB? GB? -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! h

[Scid-users] ScidVsMac -- tree view of database

2014-07-13 Thread Jai Dayal
Hi, I typically open a database as a tree and I like to play some openings and see what the most common moves are and that sort of thing. The problem is though, that every time I make a move, the database has to do a lot of processing it seems... it takes close to 10 seconds for me to get the next

Re: [Scid-users] Actually, this silly "conversation", which has NOTHING TO DO WITH CHESS ors not need to bother most of us!

2014-07-10 Thread Jai Dayal
I don't think any of us have a dog in this fight, so trying to one up each other publicly doesn't serve much advantage. Jai On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:35 AM, James Breeden wrote: > Happily, the authors' names are enough of a clue to trigger immediate > DELETE commands! > > Blessed Be! > > j >

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
How about I do cmake instead of autoconf? That way, in theory, one should be able to do the whole thing regardless if it's windows, linux, or unix... given that they have cmake installed, of course. Any objections? Jai On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Ben St-Pierre wrote: > Dear Jai, > > I rep

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
>Because it's not my script. >Because it's not 100% broken. You pretended to know what to do to fix it, thus, you are not responsible for all failed solutions that you bring up. You introduced many failed solutions. >That your claim not to have flamed can easily be proven false and that newly mi

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
Brilliant. That worked. How do I donate to scid? On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:04 PM, f...@libero.it wrote: > >> Yes, I am using LinuxMint, an Ubuntu derivative, but not Ubuntu. You > are right, it's good to clarify that. > > Ok, I git blamed the configure file and "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" is >

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
t; It works for me, so it's not *100%* broken, surely... > > And I'm pretty sure your very first message indicated that you *are* using > Ubuntu (or at least something so heavily Ubuntu-derived that the kernel > name still has 'Ubuntu' in it). > > > On Wed, O

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
" - Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools [the title]; - Do you people not know how to actually use autotools to avoid this from happening? Seriously, this isn't advanced stuff. - Your makefile is completely inconsistent. - Wow. you all have *no idea* how to write a makefile - This is ridiculous.

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
now you require editing configure? Configure produces a makefile. If I edit that very makefile, and to no avail. On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Ben St-Pierre wrote: > Thank you, Jai Dayal. > > Now, how would any competent programmer presumably like you would solve > this problem? >

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
No. On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Ben St-Pierre wrote: > Does > > > TCL_LIBRARY = -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -ltcl8.5 > > work for you, Jayal? > > A simple yes or no would suffice. > > > > -- > October Webinars: Cod

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
"Well, good for you. So have you solved with: TCL_LIBRARY = -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -ltcl8.5" I know in your world, simple "restart the computer" solutions work, but in the real world, they rarely work. Of course, this obvious solution has been tried. As usual, it does not work. On Wed, Oct

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
Okay, so then don't call it "configure" if it's not a configure script then; and don't accept the same variables, i.e., --prefix "well, at least for that i think you should blame the inventors of c (Thompson and Ritchie)" No, that's not true, at all. Any competent programmer would know that if yo

Re: [Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
SO you're saying that the configure script is not the standard GNU autotools offering, but something created independently? Your makefile is completely inconsistent. For TCL_INCLUDE, you don't specify tcl.h for TCL_LIBRARY, you have to specify the .a/.so file. Wow. you all have *no idea* how to

[Scid-users] Ya'll have no idea how to use autotools

2013-10-16 Thread Jai Dayal
I get it to configure, and then type make only to get g++ -O3 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -std=c++0x -pthread -Wall /usr/include/tcl8.5/tcl.h -o src/pgnscid.o -c src/pgnscid.cpp g++: fatal error: cannot specify -o with -c, -S or -E with multiple files compilation terminated. make: *** [src/pgnscid.

Re: [Scid-users] [Scidvspc-users] Fics is down, it would be nice to allow connection to fics2.freechess.org

2013-07-20 Thread Jai Dayal
still down. wtf On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Alan Whiteman wrote: > FICS (freechess.org) is down because hackers compromised the server and > supposedly got to the admins passwords. The website only has a notice that > the server will be down until further notice. > > > On 07/19/2013 11:3

Re: [Scid-users] [Scidvspc-users] Window Docking feature

2013-03-25 Thread Jai Dayal
I still have no idea how to do the docking in ScidvsPC (linux and mac)... On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Fulvio wrote: > > R. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > About docking, how about making a large collection of pre-loaded > > docking modes (window arrangements). You remove some liberty from the > > u

Re: [Scid-users] [Scidvspc-users] Window Docking feature

2013-03-23 Thread Jai Dayal
Hmm, I literally tried just dragging the tree window over the board window (Ubuntu 12.10 SCIDvs.PC) and nothing happened... Jai On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Ben St-Pierre wrote: > Jai, > > Docking is the ability to connect windows together in a way to form > one big, rectangular interface.

Re: [Scid-users] [Scidvspc-users] Window Docking feature

2013-03-23 Thread Jai Dayal
What is docking? On Mar 23, 2013 9:03 AM, "Steve A" wrote: > This feature seems to be working nicely now :) Quite exciting really. > The PGN column > mode really comes into it's own. > > Attached is a patch. I'll make a commit to svn next weekend when it's > finished. > All the new options are in

Re: [Scid-users] Scid Links - Call for Comments

2013-03-20 Thread Jai Dayal
mlacunzav On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Mario Lacunza wrote: > its http only... > > Saludos / Best regards > > Mario Lacunza > Email:: mlacu...@gmail.com > Personal Website:: http://www.lacunza.biz/ > OpenOffice.org Perú:: http://openoffice-peru.com/ > Hosting:: http://mlv-host.com/ > Mascota

Re: [Scid-users] Project merge

2013-03-18 Thread Jai Dayal
Why was I left off of therrr post? On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:46 AM, John wrote: > On 15/03/13 00:40, Fulvio wrote: > > I hate to be harsh, but why people talk about thing they don't > > understand and try to make me say thing i never thought about? > > As i already said very clearly, impossible

Re: [Scid-users] Project merge

2013-03-18 Thread Jai Dayal
Based on principle, I'd follow Fulvio. It seems that people are trying to push him out of the project he created. That's pretty unacceptable, even if you all came from 3rd tier universities. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:01 AM, John wrote: > On 14/03/13 22:34, Fulvio wrote: > > - He added a few fe

Re: [Scid-users] Project merge

2013-03-18 Thread Jai Dayal
I'm just confused as to what the big deal is? The original scid is (apparently.. I don't know this for sure) not well maintained because the original developer has better things to do. Someone else has made a fork that's more actively developed and maintained, and now there's discussion to make S

Re: [Scid-users] Any free databases out there?

2013-03-18 Thread Jai Dayal
Seems like every question degenerates :-( On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Ben St-Pierre wrote: > > Any volunteers? > > I could do this. > > But we should think about revisiting the whole architecture. > > Anyone who takes a look at the source code should know what I mean. > > > ---

[Scid-users] save pgn as database (SCIDvsMAC)?

2013-03-17 Thread Jai Dayal
Hi, I downloaded a pgn database from here:http://icofy-blog.de/ (I could not use the SCID download as every time I tried to decompress the .7z file, it said "Error: Archive not complete", or some related rubbish. My question is, given that I have these very large PGN files, everytime I open SCID

Re: [Scid-users] Any free databases out there?

2013-03-17 Thread Jai Dayal
No, I was not aware! Brilliant! On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Fred Mellender wrote: > Are you familiar with http://icofy-blog.de/? > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Jai Dayal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have any databases they've composed and wo

[Scid-users] Any free databases out there?

2013-03-17 Thread Jai Dayal
Hi, Does anyone have any databases they've composed and would share? Currently, I'm downloading TWIC archives; I might write a script to automatically do this, I suppose... -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make y

Re: [Scid-users] tk.h

2013-03-13 Thread Jai Dayal
y tree Reading state information... Done libx11-dev is already the newest version. It's a 64bit machine, if that helps? Thanks for all the timely response! Jai On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Fulvio wrote: > Jai Dayal wrote: > >> Hi, >> I can never compile scid. I am

Re: [Scid-users] tk.h

2013-03-13 Thread Jai Dayal
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Re: [Scid-users] tk.h

2013-03-13 Thread Jai Dayal
It's a 64bit machine, too. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Jai Dayal wrote: > Hi, > I can never compile scid. I am on Ubuntu 12.10. I installed the > tcl8.5-dev and tk8.5-dev; I have X11-dev installed as well. however when I > configure scid I get > > Renaming &quo

[Scid-users] tk.h

2013-03-13 Thread Jai Dayal
Hi, I can never compile scid. I am on Ubuntu 12.10. I installed the tcl8.5-dev and tk8.5-dev; I have X11-dev installed as well. however when I configure scid I get Renaming "Makefile" to "Makefile.bak" Tcl/Tk version: 8.5 Your operating system is: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic Location o

Re: [Scid-users] Errors during Make

2012-04-18 Thread Jai Dayal
27;s it! Thanks!! Jai On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Joost 't Hart wrote: > On 04/14/12 00:12, Jai Dayal wrote: > > Hi, > > Please keep the list posted as well... > > > Hi, > >Thanks for your response! > > >Check if package libx11-dev is installe

[Scid-users] Errors during Make

2012-04-11 Thread Jai Dayal
When running configure, it seems to find TCL/TK... here's the output of ./configure configure: Makefile configuration program for Scid Renaming "Makefile" to "Makefile.bak" Tcl/Tk version: 8.5 Your operating system is: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic Location of "tcl.h": /usr/include/tcl8.5