<!entity % p-supp-userman "INCLUDE"> <!-- Include all from supported.sgml -->
<!entity my-copy "©"> <!-- kludge for docbook2man -->
<!entity % p-newstuff "INCLUDE"> <!-- exclude stuff from devel versions -->
+<!entity % seealso-extra "INCLUDE"> <!-- extra stuff from seealso.sgml -->
<!entity my-app "<application>Privoxy</application>">
]>
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+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.56 2009/02/19 17:05:05 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.52 2009/02/14 10:27:52 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.56 2009/02/19 17:05:05 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
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</para>
</sect3>
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jointeam-money"><title>Contribute!</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="donating"><title>Donating</title>
<para>
- We, of course, welcome donations and could use money for domain registering,
- buying software to test <application>Privoxy</application> with, and, of course,
- for regular world-wide get-togethers (hahaha). If you enjoy the software and feel
- like helping us with a donation, just <ulink
- url="mailto: ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">drop us a note</ulink>
- and get your name on the list of contributors.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is developed by unpaid volunteers
+ and thus our current running costs are pretty low. Nevertheless, we
+ have plans that will cost money in the future. We would like to get
+ this money through donations made by our users.
</para>
-</sect3>
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jointeam-software"><title>Software</title>
<para>
- If you are a vendor of a web-related software like a browser, web server
- or proxy, and would like us to ensure that <application>Privoxy</application>
- runs smoothly with your product, you might consider supplying us with a
- copy or license. We can't, however, guarantee that we will fix all potential
- compatibility issues as a result.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> has therefore become an associated
+ project of <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/">Software in the Public
+ Interest</ulink>, which allows us to receive tax-deductible donations
+ in most western countries. Before donating you should probably read on,
+ though, to learn what we want your money for.
</para>
-</sect3>
+<para>
+ First of all we intend to transfer our domain to SPI to make sure
+ there's no single point of failure and the bill gets paid and the
+ site keeps running even if a some of the currently active developers
+ were to suddenly disappear for a while.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ We would also like to spend some money on more reliable hosting,
+ on hardware to help make sure <application>Privoxy</application>
+ keeps running on platforms the developers currently can't test on,
+ and on technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
+ or to improve their knowledge in general.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ If you enjoy our software and feel like helping out with a donation,
+ please have a look at
+ <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's donation page</ulink>
+ to see what the options are. Small donations help too.
+<para>
+</sect3>
</sect2>
Internet Explorer.
</para>
<para>
- Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft is using the MS-Word rendering engine
- with Outlook. It is unknown whether this can be configured to use a proxy. d
+ Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft is instead using the MS-Word rendering
+ engine with Outlook. It is unknown whether this can be configured to use a
+ proxy.
<!-- FIXME HB 2009-02-15 -->
</para>
</sect2>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="gentoo-ricers">
+<title>I compiled &my-app; with Gentoo's portage and it appears to be very slow. Why?</title>
+<para>
+ Probably you unintentionally compiled &my-app; without threading support
+ in which case requests have to be serialized and only one can be served
+ at the same time.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Check your <quote>USE</quote> flags and make sure they include
+ <quote>threads</quote>. If they don't, add the flag and rebuild &my-app;.
+</para>
+<para>
+ If you compiled &my-app; with threading support (on POSIX-based systems),
+ the <quote>Conditional #defines</quote> section on <ulink
+ url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</ulink>
+ will list <quote>FEATURE_PTHREAD</quote> as <quote>enabled</quote>.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
</sect1>
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+Revision 2.56 2009/02/19 17:05:05 fabiankeil
+Explain slowness when build with Gentoo's portage.
+
+Revision 2.55 2009/02/19 02:20:21 hal9
+Make some links in seealso conditional. Man page is now privoxy only links.
+
+Revision 2.54 2009/02/15 20:47:12 hal9
+Fix small typo.
+
+Revision 2.53 2009/02/15 20:46:13 hal9
+Update Outlook HTML rendering engine comments re: Office 2007.
+
Revision 2.52 2009/02/14 10:27:52 fabiankeil
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I unintentionally committed with the last commit.
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