Those are some bold predictions...of the past    More retard moment?  I can prescribe some Aricept or Namenda...

BTCGuild has been having some of the worst if not the worst luck ever recorded.  The last time they had luck this bad they were a Prop pool and I was mining with them.  I skipped over to a few other pools and they had 2 weeks of insanely good luck.  Since I switched to PPLNS they've had periods like the last 2 nights where 3600GH/s has not found a block for 12 hours and 9 hours respectively.

Yep I'm that good (or bad  )

What's with the run of bad luck that's going 2 nights now around midnight PST and onward - no blocks for 6 hours 

Eleuthria, I saw this on the BTC Block History Page:

"BTC Guild is a Pure Pay-per-Share, so our luck on blocks has no effect on users. However, this page is provided so people can see what blocks we have found for the network."

With PPLNS available you might want to change that or noobies might get confused 

Are we having a really bad string of luck the last couple of days?  I was averaging over 3.54 BTC/day before the split, figure I should be making at least 1.7/day now even with the 5% PPS figured in.  I switched over to PPLNS and calculated I should be making roughly .07 BTC per shift x 24 to make 1.7 BTC/day, but I barely see a couple shifts where this has happened.  In the past I have been very unlucky (I was on BTCG for 2 months of the bad luck spell and the second I switch to try other guilds lady luck rewarded BTCG).

I also show me as being the #5 user/share contributor on PPLNS with a hash rate of 12.5GH/s roughly - that can't be right can it?   Everybody else is on PPS?

I haven't directly mined on Eclipse for a long time (or any pool directly for that matter in quite some time).  I noticed if I went to Ozcoin through GPUMax I was still taking quite a hit.  So as Graet pointed out unless you're getting good amounts of public work on GPUMax it may actually be beneficial to skip it and mine at a pool directly (at least until the load issues are straightened out).

If I'm actually using the machine for anything (except gaming) I drop it down to 6.  Realistically my time is more important than 11 shares that could be saved in a 2 hour session.  As soon as I'm done I bump it back to 9.  If if you forget to bump it back up you only lose about 3 or 4% - that's not that important.  At I6 you should be able to watch movies at 1080P without problem (movies don't cut hash rate that much).  The only thing that really needs a lower intensity is gaming.  Even just running around in town in a game like Guild Wars 1 needs I5 or lower to be playable.  Usually I just turn off mining - was getting too many crashes.  There's no point to not enjoy your $400 video card while you still don't have cataracts lol.

Unless you're superstitious you can't really change your luck (or the pool's luck for that matter).  Just pick the pool you're happy with and sit on it unless it's having technical problems.

Having said that you can always tell which pool I've recently mined on - they ALWAYS have a good run right after I leave and I swap pools all the time (mined at over 40 pools in 2 years) 

I tried to be faithful and stay but I'm just getting too many Pool connection errors and invalids is consistently above 1.5%.  I'm still passing through GPUMax but that was never an issue in the past (was as low as 0.1% invalids last month).  I get Pool 0 not supplying enough work messages in CGMiner 2.7.0 constantly (haven't tried 2.7.4 yet).  Are the servers just not able to handle the load or are the changes in the background (ie construction) causing a temporary (for the last 10 days) slowdown?

I think ckolivas has said many times that the latest iterations are more aggressive/efficient and hence the GPU is getting even less idling time.  This means any basic rendering it has to do even for web browsing or flash gets squeezed even more.  Either back down your clock rate while surfing or turn down intensity.

Roughly where in Cali are you at?  I in SoCal closer to LA/OC border.  I have 5 uncirculated Silver 1oz coins (from 2002 I think).  I gotta crack open the vault to see what they really are - haven't looked at them since I bought them 10 years ago.

Yeah I had this happen on all 21 of my rigs.  10 shut down CGMiner all at once, the other 11 shut it down about 20 minutes after.  Obviously something was triggering mass closure of CGMiner.  I reverted to 2.7.0 and they've all been running fine for 12 hours.  My debugging days are behind me so I don't have any clue why it closed down.

How do I get CGminer to output the log to a file so I can review it under (I'm using Win 7 x64).

As Ozcoin was part of ABCPool's servicing options ABCPool will now be adding a 1.3% to their previous 1.5% fee making it 2.8% effective fee rate.

Haha, not sure who Oat Hay is since I'm not into the meme stuff (didn't even know what meme was until learning about it here).  The "chick" used for my avatar is Maggie Q - looks a lot like my wife.  My 2 year was calling her mommy so I used her pic for my profile so I could get Freddie Prinz out of my head.  If that reference doesn't make sense you probably weren't here when 1/2 the board had the same avatar as we were all whoring for 0.05BTC for changing out avatars.

And here I was waving my hand saying "This is not the pool you want to submit to". 

Confirmed. 2 year old yanked a SSD off a miner last week and it BSODed in 2 secs. Fortunately no OS corruption.  The drive was hanging the same way but using a locking SATA cable.

I picked up 2 Diamond Black Overclocked 7870s and bumped the voltage to 1.25v and was able to get about 440 MH/s out of each one stably.  They are using significantly more power than stock - but they're decent for density.

They're not difficult to use, at least not in Southern California.  I wish I bought a lot more when they were on sale.  I got a few Indian, Korean and Sushi joints that are happy to take them.

It's not a good deal if you're looking for a cheap meal, but if you're taking a group out to celebrate and were going to spend $50-$100 anyways it's an pretty good buy.

I think that's the generation charge only for Tier 3 (I have SCE too).  If you add Delivery/Transmission and taxes you go close to $0.35 per KWh.  It sucks too that Tier 3 is only about 80 KWh because Tier 4 goes over $0.40 and Tier 5 goes past $0.50 

That's why I have to mine offsite from my house 

Ah the liberal socialist utopia of Kalifornia 

Yeah the requirement for a HD is probably the biggest downside to a Win rig.  Sucks I sold about 5 new 200GB laptop HDs just before the thailand floods - then I figured out I needed them and now you're can't get any new drive under $60 - well HD that is.  That's why I'm just buying small SSDs for the mining rigs - makes setup so fast.  But time is money.

1GB of RAM?  Shit I have over 100 GB of DDR2 and probably close to 300GB of DDR3 that I got for free or near free when the prices were cheap and rebates plentiful.  It's the cheap decent mobos I can't find - have to shell out $150 for 890FXA-GD70s since I know they're more or less problem free out of the box.

What it boils down to is use what your comfortable with.  Unless you're going to have 20+ cards just go with what you know.  If you only know Windows don't mess around with trying to learn Linux since the miner won't be working while you learn.  If you know Linux then setup BAMT and be happy.

Anybody lose an eye patch yet?  Anybody waking up to a tigers in their room?