Patches conky to use getaddrinfo instead of gethostbyname everywhere. gethostbyname is rather
flawed and doesn't support IPv6 properly.
Patch contributed by Pascal Bleser
I'm doing this because otherwise i'll will forget to add all those
std::'s and will lose a LOT of time finding the problems.
If you don't agree, undo this patch...
...but i hope you won't :)
Rewrote timed_thread library in C++ using fancy new C++0x features. The
main reason for this is to phase out poor encapsulation and C-style
function pointers.