OrShoham

Indeed, a strong multi 2c with Roman hands in it can be very effective (which, incidently, is why many multi 2d players use it to describe similar hands). The downside seems to be mostly how rare these hands are. This post illustrates the gains - would be nice if you (or someone else, of course) could post a follow-up with potential downfalls (bidding over interference, for example, or the 'wasted' potential meanings of using alternate methods. Or

I run Linux on a spare box, and WinXP on my main box, so no problems here, either (I tried BBO under wine one day when my XP box had a power supply die and was out for the weekend). Would be nice to have it run under Linux though. VMware isn't really a viable solution for home users who want to stay on the right side of the law - if we wanted to be paying for Windows, we'd install it to begin with (; If you ever get around to making a list of relevant DLLs, I'd be happy to experiment and/or troubleshoot under Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, RedHat 8, RedHat 9, Debian 3, and SuSE 9 (Of course, it should run identically on all of these, but you never know with Linux). Or

The topic says it all- when a friend or two have connection problems, you can be flooded with dozens of these (not to mention the sound each time). Being able to turn them off for a specific friend would be ideal, but a global option would provide a viable solution as well. Thanks, Or

BBO installs fine on Wine (The newest version) and runs up to the lobby. HOWEVER, any attempt I made to join a table as a player or spectator caused me to time out. Additionally, I had some minor font-related issues (text was ugly, and suit symbols wouldn't show). I have limited experience with Wine, but I do know most problems like this can be fixed by replacing any Windows DLLs used by the program in question on Wine with ones copied from a Windows version where it is known to work. I'd be happy to try this if someone from BBO could let me know which DLLs are relevant. Or

Does BBO allow multiple connections from the same IP (i.e. home network), as a policy? We have a local network here, so multiple users might be logging in from the same projected IP. When we tried to do this, one user experienced heavy lag - I don't know if this is related or not. Assuming it is, is there any way to deal with it? Thanks, Or

This seems relevant here, so I won't start a new thread. I have the same issue as described above, but because of a less-than-friendly network administrator, I can't have port 9999 opened. Are there any alternative ports available for BBO? If not, could an alternative port be made available, perhaps a fairly 'standard' port like 6667 or 7000? Thanks, Or