java and adobe flash are the devil.

though I haven't had anything worse than Realplayer (what a PoS that is nowadays) in the last 15 years or so *knock on wood*

just watching my facebook feed, it's easy to see how many people will randomly click on links

(and watching w00tw00t spam)

I've been with 4 diff hosting companies, and Hetzner has been the best...   despite it being the cheapest...   yeah, there are setup costs, but you can also avoid those doing the serverbidding (the selection seems a little weak nowadays however)..  the customer support is better than 2 of those other 3... at least you get a response within a day.   last time I had some software issue and tech responded within an hr saying that they can't help at all with software problems on unmanaged servers, so he hooked up their LARA.  i fixed the problem, and was also able to change the BIOS.  so it was like win/win

i was sad to see that nearly all of OVH's offerings in Canada are Xeons.  It's damn near impossible to find any hosting company in the US that has high end i7's....

US needs a Hetzner and less overpriced Xeons and ECC RAM...  jesus frowns upon ECC RAM, which costs 2x as much for some feature that Intel just disables on desktop memory...   when was the last time you lost data from memory failure?  i haven't in... well.... forever.   yes, there are certain circumstances where you'd want it (very, very, very important data), but I suspect they wouldnt apply to 98% of the people that get it.   likewise, xeons cost 2-4x as much as similar i7's, without any huge benefits... unless you want to pay even more to add a second.   even then, you'd have to be doing something like running a ton of virtual machines for it to be worth it.

i spent months looking for a decent US provider.  there is one in Kansas City (I think that's probably the one EMC uses), though I forget the name...  other than that, you've basically got a few European companies that have US centers

there's a 5870

that's like, hmm, 3 or 4 days of stability i think (rejects are cause of p2pool)

it can actually go higher, cause that's only at 1.212

all day long, oh yeah

well, but not much point.  since it takes like 95-100 amps.   i run it at 0.95v now

just completed ~$175 gox/dwolla with garr255, he went first.  no problems, 5m from PM

hetzner doesn't charge me more for using more cpu cycles

two of those unknowns are from HHTT

That's enough for 3 nacho cheese chalupas

should be an option in control panel -> device manager -> network card -> power options, then uncheck the sleep junk.

the power settings?  or you dont want it to idle?

change the sleep feature on the ethernet card

1) i'm not positive what the GPUs are rated at.  I believe 100oC... because I had a fan go out once in the summer and one of my 5970's was hashing away at 50mhash/150mhash, with temps of like 106oC and 103oC.  you're fine running it 24/7 at 80-85oC or lower, I'd say (although right now @ 9pm, i'm sure all of mine are at or below 60oC).  sometimes you have a crappy thermal paste job and one GPU sensor will be a lot hotter than another.   in summer, i was mostly limited by GPU temps, now in winter, it's usually the VRM temps.  those are rated for 120oC.  I try to keep mine under 100o, but it doesnt bother me if they get up to 110o (if it isn't 24/7).  i mean, like today, it got to 78o, some near record high, so im sure some of my VRMs were running 110 or so.  they're in a sealed off room, so the ambient temperature is controlled entirely by what it's like outside (essentially, outside temperature +10 or 15o,  so around 120oF in summer).   i don't tinker with the clock settings every day, sometimes I don't go in there for days at a time, so...  what they're set at now, if the temperature was what it should be (like 50-60o in the day and 35-45o at night) the VRMs on my "worst" card would be running around 95'ish max

2)  well, i guess that's RPM.  i've had a few fans that went up to 5300, they tend to gradually slow down with all the dust buildup.  i run them at 100% 24/7.  at the moment I have one fan that runs at 5000 and the rest are all around 4600-4750..  I guess if they dropped to 4500 or below, you'd want to clean out all the dust, spiders, insects, etc.  i have this sweet case fan (it's positioned strategically on the windowsill) that glows neon that draws most of the bugs away from my other stuff, that pile gets vacuumed every few weeks

i've had to replace half a dozen fans in about 20 months of mining.  so dont believe the BS about them burning out in 6 months at 100%

3) it hasnt been very cold this summer, but there was like a one week cold snap where I spent some time tinkering with the clock settings.  i was limited by the VRM temps.   i have one weak GPU, but the rest can do 950 core at 1.1375v.  around 900mhash each card.  right now most are set at 1.05v, with one weak GPU at 1.0375 and a super weak one at 1.025.  i could probably set them higher, but i'm sick of resetting cards.  i have a 5870 that can do 1080 core at 1.200v, that's like 505mhash (not worth doing though, as that bumps it to like 100 amps)

4) umm, i use barelyclocked, msi afterburner, and trixx.  

5) yes, quite easily (unless maybe it's a really crappy 1200W PSU)

6)  i dunno what branded drivers are.  i dont update my drivers, since i havent played any games in like a year or two.   i think to run 5 GPUs or more, you have to go back to some really old drivers.  or maybe they fixed that now.  i dunno.    sdk 2.1 is best.  2.5 isnt much worse

7)  unknown, my computers are placed equidistant on wood blocks or cardboard

my CPU gets about 35mhash/s

add that to 30mhash from my hetzner machine , and  that's cash money

is there a way to get validated for more than $1000/day or $10,000/month?

I figured that at least a few of those mtgox bots are down to the .25% commission rate.  so if the price is at $17, you only need a 9 cent swing to make a profit, eh?   quite often the bid & ask are more than 10c apart..    might not be as easy now as it was when it was at $6-8 all summer

right now someone is selling 0.01 whenever it goes up.  why would you do that unless you intended to buy?  afaik, there is still no way to short bitcoins

I guess that'd depend on your OS

yeah, i am getting emails from them too (three, thus far).  gg mtgox.

I used to vote Republican  until they passed that vile Safe Ports Act w/ the (republican pushed) UIGEA 'hidden' inside

i think both parties are at fault for the Patriot Act (senate was 99-1?)... not sure about the house, except I know Ron Paul voted against it, without even having to check 

I just didnt like the whole idea of cashing out $3-$4 and paying them $1 to do so (well, plus the 5% commission fee or so on the trade itself)... I'd rather just give it to someone else


As to the offer:

First off, sorry, I forgot about this and went to sleep, so didn't get around to paying out/cancelling offer..

I compared times on some PMs to those on this post, I got my first PM at January 26, 2013, 11:48:14 AM, the first post on here was Posted on: January 26, 2013, 12:04:39 PM... so I'll be sending them to that person.
 
I'd say who it was, but not sure if they care about privacy or not.  Maybe they'll post about how they used the free money to buy some chalupas

Two 30mg adderall tablets.

i'm going to go watch tv.  i dont think theres any security issue with giving someone a nameto send to?  shrug.

it's 948 SLL.  about three fitty worth, that's nearly enough for 4 crunchy tacos

when i get back i'll send it

Is there a way to give these to someone w/o actually making a Second Life character?  I have something like 1000-1200 of them left and it won't let me buy fractions of a bitcoin so they are useless to me.

If anyone wants them and can tell me how to transfer them to you, they're all yours.  I'd rather do that then convert them to $3 or whatever then pay another $1 transaction fee.  

the shenanigans and chicanery on that website is enough to last a person a lifetime


oh, I see.. send money works

first person that gives me a working virwox account to send to gets my chicken quesadilla's worth of linden dollars

oh, i have 17 cents too