S9's still in stock, are sales slowing down??

Ignore BIP148 - it's simply an attempt by a bunch of users to take control of Bitcoin away from miners - mining is the design of Bitcoin and it will stay that way.

I'll sort it out within the next week.
I'll hopefully be able to put the new KDB code live tomorrow, so that will finally be out of the way.

Looks like I'll simply have to accept that Bitcoin mining majority is going to accept some form of SegWit - and make sure when it activates, the pool will work on any and all SegWits that happen to be blundering around ...

Pretty much every block now has the /NYA/ 'expression of interest' in it and NYA effectively means SegWit also.
Seems Core has managed to con/force everyone into accepting it, pretending it's a block size solution

Don't forget that if it activates, your 1xxx addresses will cost 4 times as much to use per byte than 3xxx addresses
(yeah they really like their dodgy P2SH addresses and are forcing everyone to risk all their BTC on those dodgy addresses)

Once I've got that all ready I'll post about the details and then switch over the main work generator to using whatever is necessary.

There are many happy customers that use Awesome Miner with 200 miners and more. The software provides much value for these customers as it saves them time, trouble and ensures that their mining operations run smooth with as few interruptions as possible. When having these number of miners, Awesome Miner is really saving money for you.

If you run 200 miners, you have already made a significant investment in your mining operations. If you have 200 Antminer S9 for example, just the hardware and PSU will cost you $1200 per Antminer. That's a total of $240 000. Awesome Miner Ultimate Edition for 200 miners will only cost you $800. That's nothing for the customers running these operations.

Please let me know what kind of mining operations you are running, and I'm sure we will see that Awesome Miner brings value for you at a price that is very small compared to the total investment. Thanks!

Guys what is  a good hardware wallet?  trezor ?  ledger nano s ?

Block by Sierra8561!  This is our 2nd of BLOCK FRIDAY!

It also happens that I have been on this pool for exactly 1600 blocks now with this one which is a personal milestone

so is this ASICBOOST proof then? if so, why did Bitmain agree?

And why was Core not invited? 

It's impossible to respond because it's only in your head that what you said has anything to do with what I said.
I said they are getting paid.
You went on about some "conspiracy theory" nonsense.
Frankly, I couldn't care less who is paying them (or even why). The fact is that anyone getting paid any amount to do something gives that person a motivation to keep that something relevant. Specifically, in this case, the fact that Core devs get paid is it's own incentive for Core devs to fight to keep Core going.

This is a very good question, and it would probably be a good idea to document this in a better way.
Antminers typically support all features you see in the user interface in Awesome Miner. You can also do reboot via SSH, but you need to define a custom rule for this.

Go to Options dialog, Rules section, Add a user defined rule. Give the rule a name like "Reboot Antminer". Don't define any triggers, instead you check "Support manual activation". Then you define a single action of type SSH, where you need to specify username and password to your Antminer, and make sure that the command is set to "Reboot system".
Default SSH username/password for Antminers are typically: root/admin

When you save this rule you will find a new button in the toolbar of the main window called Actions. When you add rule with Manual Activation, those rules will be displayed in the Actions menu. Now you have access to a reboot feature for all the Antminers you select.

It looks like the S9's currently for sale are from a previous batch, batch 12.  Does anyone have them?  How is the reliability?

Yes, it is wholly true that if you want to run a Core node, you are free to not support segwit by running an older, less optimized version of Core that is worse for the network as a whole.
Meanwhile in the decentralized world where Bitcoin is supposed to be run by a consensus, if the majority want x in a wallet, then Core devs should put x in the wallet. In the decentralized world where Bitcoin is supposed to be run by a consensus, one shouldn't have to make the choice between a client that is, literally, slower and one that signals something that the majority obviously don't want.

"You are free to open a Git and submit proposals if know of a beneficial feature that is not currently available." Satoshi Nakamoto, himself, could write a BIP that 99% of the community wants and if the devs personally dislike the change, then it's not going into Core.