You have to hook your shower waste pipe up to your arc reactor. 

Yes, sorry, that's what I meant.   I'm confusing Node with Pool.   

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262566.0
 

Thank you twmz and baloo_kiev, that explains it.   It basically works the same as Eligius, then.  Mine with your address to get paid, mine without to donate to the pool funds.

Antrim::UK::http://847Pool.no-ip.biz:9332::0.5%::BTC::847Pool::HellDiverUK

As usual, mine with your payout address as your username.

So payments go to other/my nodes, rather than to miners who connect to my node?

So, if Joe Bloggs connected his miner to my pool, he'd just be donating some hashes to my node for no reward?

I'm confused - if I open my p2pool to the general internet public, how do they get paid?  Does p2pool do all this automatically? 

If Joe Bloggs mines on my p2pool node using his BTC address as his username, does p2pool automatically pay Joe when a block is found?

Here's an idea.  Find out what you're talking about before posting.

I had a look at things when I got home, and I've set up a Pentium G620 (dual core 2.6GHz Sandy Bridge) to run both the p2pool and also it's running the Block Erupters.  It'll run the Jalapeno if it ever appears, too.   The Celeron was maybe a little too slow - might have been OK running Linux, but I don't have the patience to set it up that.

Pool is available now (hopefully) on http://847pool.no-ip.biz:31337 for web stats; port 8333 for mining.

The NUC is brilliant, I have one here as my HTPC (it's the i3 version).  I've got it in a Tranquil passive case.  Totally silent.

The 847 I have is on a MiniITX Gigabyte board.  Current specs are 4GB RAM, 250GB Samsung 840 SSD.  In the hour or so it's been running, it seems to be doing OK.  I'll give it a few days and see how it performs, I have plenty of spare hardware I can throw at it.  

I'm running my miners on a different machine, though that may change.  I might run the ASICMiners off this machine, too, if it can cope.  Leave my main PC to do it's thing.

Got it up and running on the Celeron 847.  Runs like crap.    One core is basically running flat out for p2pool.exe all the time.

I think I'll swap the drive over to a faster machine (Pentium G620) when I get home, and see how it goes on there.

Initial impressions seem good though.

I might have missed it, but how do I get the fancier web page running?  The p2pool page is just a bunch of tables and stuff at the moment.  I don't see graphs or the likes?

Running OK now, it took a little while to settle down. 

I also found the graphs.  I'm running a browser on a Remote Desktop session to my p2p machine via my home PC via LogMeIn, which is reducing 1080p res to 1280x1024 for work PC.  Slow, laggy and tiny. 

You meant to say "anyone with a clue" tend to use 220V. 

Besides, Australia may as well be in Europe, it's just a sunnier Ireland (they get drunk constantly, drive on the correct side of the road, and BBQ in December).

No, I've NEVER needed to run dummy plugs or any of that crap.  My GPU rigs are all using Intel iGPU for display, the AMD cards are doing mining only.

There's a "Previous Versions" link on the right hand side of AMD's driver download page, all older version are available there.

Your batch file is wrong, simple as that.

Simple solution is don't use a batch file.  Just run cgminer, get it mining, then go in to Settings and hit the "Write Config" option.  Then it'll run correctly every time just by running the exe.

Disagree.  12.8 are still the most consistently stable version for me.  They literally just work.  Test on Windows 7 machines with 2x7950, another with a 6970, and with another machine with a 7850 and 7770.

I hear what you're saying, but you're wrong.

You may have found that, but I couldn't mine on a machine with 4GB RAM with 2x7950 until I added the setx commands.  

Yes, it should be possible to just do it once, but Windows being Windows does like to change stuff (be it some other application, Windows Update or even ATI driver).  It does no harm to leave the commands there.

Really, people wouldn't be recommending it, if it didn't work.

I'm starting to set up p2pool on my little spare machine.  Bitcoin-QT is using 98% CPU usage while downloading the blockchain.  Is this a bad sign for the future?  Do I abandon the idea of running p2pool on this machine, and run it off something with a bit more go?  Drive is a Samsung 840 250GB SSD, and it has 4GB RAM.

I got mine cooled for basically free:

- Old PSU off a dead Netgear router (12v 2A)
- Old 120mm fan (salvaged out of an old dead PSU)
- 10 mins with soldering iron and heat shrink tubing.

Just have the 120mm fan sitting beside the USB hub, and the fan is basically silent.  It sits on the desk fine. 

Speaking of scams....2013 years and counting...

I certainly will be, but it'll be a little while before I replace the BTC lost to the other GB.