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I will give 20 BTC to the individual that gets Bimmerhead's miner up and running.

He can be found here:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1496

Be super prompt and I may throw in a few more BTC.

Thanks.

What OS is s/he using? I might be able to help with Linux.

Linux it is. Ubuntu 10.10.

I can not take credit for this, but there's an excellent tutorial here:
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3359.msg47174#msg47174

If that doesn't help, let me know and I'll try to help out in a more personal way.

I'm already conversing with him about this matter.

He ran into a problem installing a certain miner.

That was meant for me?
I wish you the best of luck helping out. Do let me know if you need my assistance. I'll do my best.

Things have taken a turn for the worse and now Ubuntu won't boot up.

I'm looking for someone who can install Linux, and get a miner going on this box if I mail you the drive.  I'm looking to plug n play.
If you're in Ontario that would be a bonus...

Let me know how much you'd like in btc, and what country/province you're in so I can factor in shipping cost and time.

Thx

I'm in Vancouver and will do it for 50 BTC, (w/ you paying postage ;-). That will include technical support when you get it back to ensure that it's up and running. I assume you already tried my guide (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3356.msg47489#msg47489)??

Now.

You sure you want your address in public?

I did try your guide... it was going o.k. until I rebooted.  Linux tries to start, then restarts, restarts, etc.


I'll see if there are any Ontario bids first... shipping across the border seems to take forever.

I don't blame you for not wanting to ship it to me again. This is all my fault, really. I take full responsibility for this disaster.

Why not boot it up with a live-cd, install openssh-server on it. Create an account and let me (or someone else) have a stab at it?
Since I don't know what you've done to the machine I can't say if it can be resurrected or not, but I haven't yet found a Linux-machine that I haven't been able to bring back, except for HW-faults or when they've deleted all data (or encrypted and lost the key).
Granted it's much easier if you're sitting next to the machine, but it should be possible to do remote.
I have 10yrs of high-performance unix/linux experience so I'm not trying to decieve you here.

Here's my suggestion.
Get someone to fix/reinstall your machine.
Have them write down EXACTLY what they're doing. Step by step.
Have someone else review those instructions so that they don't do anything malicious.
Follow those instructions and reinstall the machine yourself.

At the end of the day you'll have a functional machine with no backdoors. :-)

Good luck.

How does openssh-server work if you are behind a firewall?

You'd have to open port 22 for it to work.
Or do some port forwarding if it's an external fw. Ideally forward port 34235 to port 22 on the machine to avoid a few automated attacks.

Atlas don't worry, if we were in the same state I'd send it to you.  But things seem to get held up crossing borders, and the Cdn government wants their 13% when it crosses too.


We did try this, from 2 or 3 angles, and were unable to make a connection.  Maybe the modem is the problem?

Nope, nothing wrong with his firewall. His router was, presumably, set up correctly. openSSH was configured correctly.

I have no idea why it doesn't accept connections...

Hmm... sounds like a hardware issue to me. Have you tried holding down shift and testing your ram or booting into single user mode?

If it was a hardware issue, it wouldn't even POST. Clearly if he's getting into Linux, there's nothing wrong with the hardware.

We'll see.

Could be a hardware issue. I've had problems with a Linux installation that would restart randomly shortly after booting. Turned out the memory mappings got confused when I disabled some features in the BIOS, like USB and legacy ports. It could also be a bad X configuration. That can make the computer look like it restarts over and over.

No hardware issues, it worked fine 2 days ago when I was helping him.

gimme an ssh hgimme bitcoins I fix it good!

humble, you have a PM

I live in Ontario and may be able to help, if you're still in need.

Thanks Nevermore, I'm taking humble up on his offer.

Are you in the North or South?  Good to see another Ontarian on here.