lol, reminds me of Noah building the ark. It took him 120 years to build, and during that time there was no rain at all, and he was building it on dry land, so it naturally had its detractors. He was 600+ years old before the actual flood came.

Happy Mother's day.

Come get me, bastard.

BAMT is designed as a live cd with very minimal persistency. Therefore, it loads into memory and only writes changes to the config files, so any old stick will work. A faster one just means faster boots and faster loading the stick from your host box. Once it is running, it doesn't make any difference at all.

et tu, brute. Get out and don't come back with your unfounded accusations.

Quote below so you can see what he said:


And I see you trying some SEO trickery with your sig, too bad it isn't actually going to work as well as you think it might.

Most of it got sold, which was the intended purpose. But I still need to haul my butt over to the dentist to fix a filling that popped out when chewing a sticky candy.

I don't shop at Best Buy because I value the integrity of my asshole.

Too slow. You don't have 4G?
Also, I find it easier to type when I am stationary.

Wow, it only took two pages for it to devolve into Gavin-bashing and talk about economics. This has got to be a record

And if you want my opinion on bitcoin finances being a zero-sum game... well it sure is when all your profits get stolen.

"Home, James. I have an evening appointment to keep with the bitcointalk.org forum members. Don't forget to step on it."

Unfortunately the bitcointalk forums tend to attract ravenous money grubbing types, and when people start to discuss finances they tend to get pretty nasty when provoked. So no, the overall tone of this community is quite a bit worse than many others. That being said, there are certainly excellent members that contribute often and well, and lend a positive note to what would otherwise become a stinking cesspool far worse than it actually is now. If you want a decent community that will be open an receptive to 'most anything that you want to offer and bring forward, you may wish to start elsewhere.

That isn't to say that you shouldn't start here or be discouraged from posting, but rather that you should know that you are being held to a very high standard of excellence that few achieve with good reliability and precision. You are expected to show up with a polished business plan, a solid reputation, (or create one first), and to be immediately available for the long run. It isn't conducive to a student lifestyle where the amount of free time may vary with the seasons, because when something happens, you are held accountable immediately.

No offense meant, and I hope you won't take any of it personally, but come back when you can stay a while.

I use that for all my mail servers. It's lightweight and fast.

QFT

I don't care when they are securing the network with others' power and CPU/GPU time, but I draw the line at selling identities.

Presumably anyone that can use a pair of fast FPGAs in a compact box? If I could re-purpose it as a WPA crack-in-a-box, I would pay a grand for it to go driving around cracking WPA in realtime.

Nice, someone who doesn't appear to know about network security preaching about ignorance.

The fact is, it does indeed add to network security, because a higher difficulty means it is harder to attack the bitcoin ecosystem, whether by 51% attacks, finney attacks, and so forth. And furthermore, there are individual users here (many of them, in fact) that have significantly more than just 13-20 ghash/s under their belt, no botnet needed.

The introduction of the "Securities" subforum kind of made it redundant anyway.

I was looking at the details page, and one conclusion you came to was that bitcoind running as root was more secure than bitcoind running as www-data. However, I don't think either is correct; bitcoind should run as its own user in its own group for the most ideal security. The reason is that if somehow it became possible to cause the bitcoind process to execute arbitrary code via some kind of exploit, it would be contained inside the dedicated user and group (theoretically), instead of being allowed to run rampant as root.

I am fairly sure it doesn't need root privileges to run, but if it does you can then use a chroot jail for the best security.

BAMT is the "Big A Miner Thing", which sort of suggests that it could be for more than just GPUs, and it would be even more cool if all the graphs and stuff supported FPGAs of various ilks. Unfortunately, its creator has a lot less time on his hands then do the maintainers of other various bitcoin mining related things. So I suppose at this point it is a question of Patience Grasshopper and donating before anything happens.

What nibor said, also see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81503.0 and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79285.0 also https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80118.0

Both on, all working AOK, Easyminer ran a successful short diagnostic saying 870 mhash/s, pool shows full speed, so must be a miner bug. Actually, I am using bfgminer 2.3.6, so maybe I will upgrade to the latest. Not sure how much difference there is in the display code for speed between bfgminer and cgminer.

EDIT: Also, the temps have gone up from 60ish degrees C to around 64, and my kill-a-watt says 119.7 watts (!)

EDIT EDIT: Upgrading to BFGMiner 2.4.1 fixed the display bug. Also, the single is steady at 120 watts, up from 80 or so.