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3581  Economy / Services / Re: Increase Your Dropbox Storage (up to 18 GB) - Special Offer!!! on: March 14, 2012, 08:43:31 PM
The second offer - double your referral space
You can double your existing referral space instantly for only 1.5 BTC
For example: if you have 32 valid referrals, the amount of your Dropbox storage will be increased with 8 GB. If you choose my doubling offer, the storage will be permanently expanded to 18 GB.
Note: the increased storage is PERMANENT.
How does that work? Is it some sort of special promo by dropbox?
3582  Economy / Goods / Re: [WTS] Iphone 4S 16GB Telus on: March 14, 2012, 08:41:54 PM
I'll do it for free Smiley
3583  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: US lawyers float Facebook Credits antitrust suit on: March 14, 2012, 06:39:10 PM
Antitrust law is so absurd. Nobody is forced to use Windows, not the users nor the developers. Anyone who complains about Windows on the basis of "monopoly" is a sniveling whiny bitch imo Smiley

Microsoft should do whatever the heck they want with their own software. And the same freedom that protects their right to do so is the same freedom which protects our right to do whatever we want with Bitcoin.
3584  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Massive GOP Voting Fraud Discovered: Ron Paul Likely Won Many Elections on: March 14, 2012, 03:44:31 PM
oh boy, not this again. Wasn't this debunked on reddit?
3585  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: What is this scam? Lease to own GPU's ad from Craigslist on: March 13, 2012, 10:47:00 PM
Not really a scam, more like a rip-off for people who can't do basic math.
3586  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Mining resources hosting/leasing service, worth it? on: March 13, 2012, 09:42:48 PM
servers don't need that kind of observation - properly configured these do neither.
a 5k server room might go by months no one even visiting there!

If fire happens, i will most likely be able to shut down all nodes remotely, so when the sprinklers go off the hardware would be spared, just need to dry and test everything. Just in case i can't be there when the fire is starting up.

Seriously tho, computer hardware does not tend to catch up on fire spontaneously Smiley

and if this grows sufficiently, it's not that big of an investment relatively to setup electronics safe fire system (can't remember the name of the gas used).
If you got 40k € (ie. 100x7970) operating, 4k-8k € on a small fire supression system is not that bad of an investment anymore (10-20%) compared to a small 10x7970 operation.
You can shut off remotely, but can you respond fast enough so the equipment doesn't get wet while the power is still on? Keep in mind you need to cut off all power, because even if the rigs are "off", the power supply is still providing standby power to the motherboard. Or are you going to have it set up so all power is cut automatically in an event of a fire?

It's not just reacting to fire, you need to be close so you can monitor the site 24/7. It's a datacenter with over 50k worth of electronics, so burglary/vandalism is definitely an issue. A warehouse with tons of ventilation, spewing out hot exhaust is sure going to attract some attention.

Just because you live 30 minute away, doesn't mean you can deal with an emergency. Are you willing to leave work if a problem shows up? How about 3am in the morning, or right when you're eating dinner? Mining rigs are very risky investments, and bitcoin prices are very unstable, so it's all about getting the fastest ROI as possible. If it will take you 12 hours to respond to an event, your customers are not going to be happy.

A much better idea would be to sell mining contracts.
3587  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Mining resources hosting/leasing service, worth it? on: March 13, 2012, 08:04:02 PM
but still, Siberians can get sub 8 cent AND have cold climate.

So? How many Siberians you know even being able to do this?
Even tho that is the case, for example google setup one huge DC here ...
France has high electricity costs, yet probably the biggest hosting company in Europe operates from France ...
Netherlands has likely the highest electricity costs in Europe, yet is the Europes "Internet Hub" meaning best connectivity there, and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of large and small hosting companies, one of europes largest providers too is there.

Just because Siberians can get that, does not mean it will happen.
For example, they might have very flaky electricity, hard to get HW delivered, too big distances, if electricity goes down it might be down for how many weeks??
How about internet connectivity? Satellite? yeah....
electricity is still 50% less than yours. Mining doesn't require a fast connection, a dial-up line will probably work just fine. All you're doing is spreading FUD about your competitors.
3588  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Mining resources hosting/leasing service, worth it? on: March 13, 2012, 06:24:54 PM
On the upside we don't need AC, and even tho office has AC it's not calced in because it would have this in any case and i could put the FPGAs on another room to get the load off the AC.
but still, Siberians can get sub 8 cent AND have cold climate.
3589  Economy / Services / Re: GPUMAX | The Bitcoin Mining Marketplace on: March 11, 2012, 05:25:26 PM
This issue could be resolved somewhere in this thread but I sure as hell cant find it, I apologize if it's there:

I would like to setup gpumax and my rigs in a fashion where, they work at gpumax whenever public work is available and to work in P2pool when it is not.
I know how to set them up in fashion where the rigs would try mining at gpumax at first and if it fails then swap to P2pool for X shares... after which try back at gpumax (rinse and repeat)
I think (am not sure) that I however am not able to set up a worker at gpumax without specifying a "failover" pool. Is this possible ? If it isnt could you make it possible? (seems like a very small tweak). Is there something im not taking in to account ?
You can setup your own VPS with a p2pool node, and set that as your "private pool".
3590  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Mineral oil submersion? on: March 11, 2012, 12:25:42 AM
So what about distilled water to keep this discussion in the spirit of the post? I know that its not a long term solution, but what are the pros and cons.
Salts will eventually leech in
3591  Other / Meta / Re: Why does SMF search function suck? on: March 10, 2012, 11:47:02 PM
Googling "bitcoin forum" + keyword usually gives me better results...... I worship my google God
the proper way is to add "site:bitcointalk.org" in the search query. Tongue
3592  Economy / Goods / Re: Custom 3D Words on: March 10, 2012, 10:05:05 PM
is it me, or do the reflections on the spheres look inaccurate?
3593  Other / Meta / Re: Why does SMF search function suck? on: March 10, 2012, 10:03:17 PM
mainly because the search results are by post, not by topic.
3594  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: a few questions about p2pool on: March 10, 2012, 06:40:05 PM
I've put it here because it's a question about the p2pool software and not about the pool itself. But if it is the wrong place a mod can move it Smiley
You can move your own topics, you know Wink
3595  Economy / Goods / Re: [Interest Check] The New iPad - Pre Orders on: March 09, 2012, 11:43:11 PM
what's the difference between this and buying it yourself? does the ipad 3 have restricted availability or something?
3596  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: Selling/Leasing Diablo 3 Beta Battle.net Account on: March 09, 2012, 11:39:32 PM
It was a pleasure doing business with you!

Free bump
thanks Smiley
3597  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Please help test: versions 0.5.3rc3 and 0.4.4rc3 on: March 08, 2012, 06:15:55 PM
My best guess, at this point, is that your wallet has a corrupt private key which was not properly detected in older versions. Could you check debug.log?
I copied 0.4.4 back, and now I'm getting a slightly different error.
Does 0.4.2 still work? This looks like blkindex.dat got corrupted somehow.
Nope, 0.4.2 doesn't work either now. Although i got it to work by deleting everything except for wallet.dat. 0.4.4 still doesn't work though.
3598  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Please help test: versions 0.5.3rc3 and 0.4.4rc3 on: March 08, 2012, 03:41:06 AM
My best guess, at this point, is that your wallet has a corrupt private key which was not properly detected in older versions. Could you check debug.log?
I copied 0.4.4 back, and now I'm getting a slightly different error.

debug.log
Code:
Bitcoin version 0.4.4-beta
OS version Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition
System default language is 60 English_United States.1252
Language file locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/bitcoin.mo (English (U.S.))
Default data directory C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
Loading addresses...
dbenv.open strLogDir=C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin/database strErrorFile=C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin/db.log
Loaded 69349 addresses
 addresses              7809ms
Loading block index...


************************
EXCEPTION: 11DbException      
Db::open: Invalid argument      
C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\bitcoin\bitcoin.exe in AppInit()      



************************
EXCEPTION: 11DbException      
Db::open: Invalid argument      
C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\bitcoin\bitcoin.exe in CMyApp::OnUnhandledException()      

db.log
Code:
file unknown has LSN 8/3751694, past end of log at 1/327
Commonly caused by moving a database from one database environment
to another without clearing the database LSNs, or by removing all of
the log files from a database environment
__db_meta_setup: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\blkindex.dat: unexpected file type or format
3599  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Please help test: versions 0.5.3rc3 and 0.4.4rc3 on: March 08, 2012, 03:32:01 AM
I'm getting

Error loading wallet.dat: Wallet corrupted
Even after restoring your backup? Can you join #bitcoin-dev to troubleshoot?
No, i was using 0.4.2 before, and it worked fine. When i changed to 0.4.4, i got that error, and when i restored the old executable, it was working fine again. Seems like an incompatible wallet version to me.
3600  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Please help test: versions 0.5.3rc3 and 0.4.4rc3 on: March 08, 2012, 01:28:17 AM
I'm getting

Error loading wallet.dat: Wallet corrupted     
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