Gerardo

As I said in the parent post, IMO Butler is a crutch from pen and paper days, to be able to get a result doing less math. Now computers do the math, and the crutch is not needed. There is no need to eliminate top and bottoms, as the only purpose of it is to make Butler introduced datum fairer. No Butler => no datum => no need.

Friends/enemies lists were in the PC at first, then you moved ro another PC, and were no more. So they got moved to server. You can see any player's profile in web version.

On 3 (taking out tops and bottoms part): BBO uses Cross IMPs. It does NOT use Butler, so there is no average involved. Tthe process is exactly the same as MPs (your result is compared to every other result one-on-one, and assigned a result), but instead of 1/0.5/0, the assigned result is based on the IMP table. Then, all results are added (if you recall the Cavendish scores, they are calculated this way). BBO, after all this, divides that number by the number of comparisons, so the final result looks like something that could come from a Butler process, but it is not. <opinion> Butler is a crutch from pen and paper times to need less math operations to arrive to a firly good result. Cross IMPs are fairer than Butler. With computers doing the math, the crutch is no longer needed. </opinion>

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Congrats Richard! Enjoy.

Debian Sid 64-bit on this PC. Wine 1.1.32, BROWSE_TYPE=E works, =C and Wine crashes when trying to install Gecko. Try VirtualBox instead of QEMU (which is impressive) :-)

Try change BROWSER_TYPE to E in bbover.ini

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Even Matula's book has an appendix on Multi and 2M as 5-5 instead of Wilkosz, accounting for regulations against the latter.

BBO uses Cross IMPs in every place it uses IMPs. In no place Butler is used.

Try removing the pango-graphite package if installed at all.

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It uses cross IMP, it does NOT use Butler. For comparison, it is similar to MP gets calculated, with the IMPs difference instead of 1/0.5/0 or 2/1/0 as possible results. Also, the Cavendish does similarly. It compares against all other results, takes the IMP difference of all the comparisons, takes the sum off all that (just like the Cavendish) then divides that by the number of comparisons. There is no average, not dropped results (and PLEASE, do not ask for them)

yes, you can, in a different way, you have a list of directors and must add them one by one.

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Can't do it only for a part of the world.

Package name in 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is ttf-symbol-replacement.

It is solved now.

Also, ubuntu 9.10 (due to release in few days) comes with wine1.2 and a package named ttf-symbol-replacement.

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Too late here, but good to hear.

Not sure how to improve on current situation. Think local times are the way to go. Don't think GMT is workable, how many people (on BBO at large) does know how much how far away from it they are? Any other fixed timezone (including US Eastern) is worse. Perhaps Matmat's suggestion of using the given IP to find the timezone is workable, and would fix OP issue without having to check if the PC current timezone is the right one. On DST, I think there is a special place in hell for whoever came up with the idea :)

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