Nice to see that video, thanks. Man, the package looked like it had been drop kicked all the way from China. Glad they seem to be taking internal packaging to heart.

Enjoy yo hashing powah.

Image does not work for me either.

image url seems to be some ridiculous long googlegroups URL. I'm guessing that those who are not part of whatever that is cannot see it.

EDIT: If I open the URL on its own, it sends me to a page that lets me download the image. Perhaps post it up on an image hosting site for direct linking.

Again, on a practical level, if you are simply worried about a failing miner, then you could simply look at time since last share submitted. Estimated hashrate being more or less worthless. Your actual hashrate is zero when a miner fails, regarldess of what is being reported. Unless you mean something strange by "failing miner", as in it is stuttering or something, I don't know.

A shorter response might be, "yes, GPUs (and a few fpgas)."

On a practical level, reported hash rate is inconsequential. Every pool system relies on shares submitted to calculate rewards. Hashrate is simply a human vanity.

Only one response about price? C'mon.

Price. Price. Price.

Bitcoins are worth more now than they ever have been, with the exception of the crazy ass bubble high when they were worth 2x what they are now. Even after the "crash" they're still worth about 5x what they were in February, and 10x what they were in January.

The fact that with the addition of ASICs, the current difficulty is *only* 3x higher is actually a testament to the conservative nature of miners (if I lived just about ANYWHERE else I'd be sitting on a big fat mining farm as we speak).

On that list why is ASICMiner orange, putting it on the same level as BTCGarden, which has nothing that I see to back it up (no website, no pictures, no concrete plans), while BFLabs is Green, along with Avalon, having delivered nothing more than like 5 or 10 jalapenos?

ASICMiner has been hashing away with 20+TH for months, they've delivered every product that they put up for sale, have pictures of working product. Seems a little bizarre.

btccheap is a clone of mininunited (probably run by the same person) which has now conveniently "closed" because its "now illegal in the US" (which it isn't).

Clear scam, plain and simple. Wish there was more legal recourse against these people.

You probably screwed up the connection in bridging the PSUs. Since your single PSU can handle it, why not go buy some SATA/molex adapters and just run everything off the silverstone?

Great auction for the seller, for the buyer, not so much.

Damn c'mon ya'll. A guy can't go away from the boards for one day without you snapping up an unexpected erupter blade sale?

Well I guess put me down for 1 in case 150 people don't pay up

John K is the most widely used escrow I know of on the forums

Ah, Good call, that is probably it.

All the more reason not to transact so carefreely.

On an interesting note, if I'm reading the blockchain correctly

6117997c3d...   0.0005   0.259    [fee / transaction size]
12b1EtTAnH3Br4b1efPKGYbbw1VK5voe3q: 1757.37572336
1CXVjyUyzjCZD3drDcbQuszvUaxQTiUWQB: 0.12073801
16wXpNmTrvXPQtegjtSaRf2EiLg4CHsiJy: 1757.25448535

Sent 0.12073801 BTC, with change of 1757.25448535 BTC

Yeah they'll do that.

I guess I can partly see Paypal's side from the pre-order nonsense, but if you're selling a physical existing object, which for all intents and purposes is just a computer, I'm not sure how you can deem that specific item (which is legal) as against TOS.

:|

Was gonna wait til tonight to buy these yesterday. All gone now.

HVAC is complicated, there's a reason why companies specialize in providing this service. If you don't mind wiring a bit you might consider hooking a high CFM shuttered fan to a thermostat, install it in a window and block off the excess space. Then pull in cool air from the house, circulate it in the room and set it to vent only above a certain temp. Downside is that unless insulated well you might pour warm air into the house causing the AC to run more, otherwise you are venting your AC air however. Neither is ideal.

Possibly the best would be hook up a swamp cooler to a window, blow cooler air over your rigs, then vent out opposite window. Not too expensive, electrically not too bad, keep the rest of the house separate. Only downside is if you are in a humid climate it won't work and can make excess moisture an electrical worry.

Honestly unless you live somewhere ridiculous, just cross venting with high CFM fans is the best.

GUIMiner doesn't give you the tools necessary to make any kind of diagnostic. As mentioned, give cgminer a whirl, you might be getting HW errors, which I assume is the case, as 590KH/sec is pretty high for a 7950.

If a group 51%'d the network, no one would really notice or care (assuming no malicious activity). The price wouldn't fall to its doom, and bitcoin wouldn't just close up shop. If it continued that way for months and months, maybe then people would lose some confidence, but it's not as alarming to the "other side" as most of us would believe.

The network has actually seen a couple of 51% moments in its history, and despite the panic on forums by a vocal minority, it had very little effect on price.

So, assuming that Avalon really will ship sooner or later, and BFL ever makes a product, regardless of what AM does or doesn't do, the problem will sort itself out.

LTC is naturally ASIC resistant by the nature of the protocol. As are all the scrypt based spinoffs.

As for banning computing from an algorithmic system, good luck to that.