2GB is a bit slim, especially if you're going to mine scrypt coins (which is all 5870s are good for now).

I think your machine is broken.  I've NEVER had Bitcoin-Qt do that, across several machines.

Surely BFL have a tech support line?  I mean, they charged enough for the miners, surely someone there can help you with the drivers?

847Pool is back online.  Rewiring and stuff completed.  

Fee is at 0.5% now.

Still the greenest P2Pool Node?  May be...

The old ones work with p2pool, so why wouldn't the new ones? 

Terrible.  You didn't even proof read it, did you?  I spotted at least two obvious typos.

Do everyone a favor and take that down.

Don't use Teamviewer.  I use Logmein or VNC.  Logmein is brilliant, and free.  Works in any browser, and does a great job of resizing the screen (my home PC runs at 1080p and I can control it no problems on a 1300x768 laptop screen).

p2pool does getwork and stratum on the normal ports by default.  The ports are listed in the p2pool console when it initially starts.

Install VCP drivers, run bfgminer with the -S eruper:all -G parameters, that'll mine with the Erupters and not the GPU.  Remove the -G to mine with GPU as well.  Simple.

Or you could use cgminer to do the GPU mining, and bfg for the Erupters.

Personally I find bfg to be far better for the Erupters - I still use cg for GPU mining (basically because it's working and I couldn't be bothered changing it).

Any updates on the blades, yxt?  Difficulty isn't getting any lower (up to 86mil).

Sounds like a dead/dying PSU to me too.

It's not working now. 

I think it's knackered.

You need BFGMiner 3.2.0 for the getwork server, so I think you'll probably have to .git and compile.  I'm a serious linux n00b too, so don't ask me how.

Looks like the database server has had a coronary.  The site was up earlier with database errors.  Mining is still working, as are payouts, it's just the stats/front page that's broken.

Fair enough, stratum_proxy.exe it is then.

Yep, I knew about the Linux version of BFG.  I think that might be the option, run it in a VM on my mining host machine.

Maybe you should keep the Getwork server going, it's an easy option for Blade users (especially as they're getting more popular thanks to the greatly reduced price)? 

Never thought in a million years I'd see Ruston-Bucyrus mentioned on a Bitcoin forum. 

Guess what?  No-one in this thread is interested in your opinion.  Get down off your soap box, and go take it somewhere else.

But therefore takes twice as long to do anything, which is a bit of a problem because difficulty goes up.  You need as fast as you can the soonest you can to make the same amount of coins.

Double the speed, double the price, double the power will make it's ROI back quicker than the slower card.  Plus the 7950 will have a better resale value when you're done with it - heck I sold my 6970 cards for more than I paid for them, after using them for a year hashing.

There's still some pools that work with getwork - Eligius and BTCGuild both still have getwork servers.  The stratum proxy is simple to run however.

I'm planning on running my Blade mining towards the stratum proxy running on my home server (it's on 24/7 so no big fuss there), and the backup pool on the Blade will be going towards either Eligius or BTCGuild's getwork server.

As for PSU, I'm currently running an old 30A 12V bench supply (the type used by HAM radio and CB Radio folks).  It's not very efficient (big old transformer), but it was free.  I'm currently running the fans and USB hub for the Block Erupters off it, and it's running at a little over 2A load.   The fan in it is on a thermostat, so it's starting and stopping every few minutes, which means I might end up going the ATX PSU route.

If you run Linux, you can also point the Blade to the getwork server built in to the latest version of BFGMiner - one program could run your USB sticks, Blade, GPUs, etc.