add myself to the authors list ... because i want to be part of the "very cool dudes" list of people with a SVN account.

- getenv is case-sensitive !!! use HTTP_PROXY instead of http_proxy

- Useless (always true) check removed
- Only one strdup() in vlc_UrlParse

Not sure this should be backported at this time (at least not without further testing)

- Really obey the ipv4-timeout to the ms

  A configurable timeout should be added later on?

(Closes #229)

  which are supported by aout modules (closes #201)
- Use appropriate values in es format computations

   startup. Fixed two typos in two strings.

* Mark the video and decoder options of the dummy module as advanced. This 'hides' the problem described in #162

* Don't show the General node in OS X playlist. it complicates logic, but looks much nicer this way.