What do you get for "aticonfig --lsa"?  Are you running your monitor on the 5870 or another GPU in the system?

I'm reluctantly in favor of this sentiment.  The last thing we need is a DNS-mediated shutdown of the Bitcoin site.  We also need mirrors.

Hey thanks, this is nice.  Do you know how to specify which GPU the utility will access, in the case of multi-GPU setups?

I was converting from USD.  Where is Bitcoin actively traded for gold?  Must be very thin trading.

I've noticed that from time to time the gold conversion value is incorrect.  This is one of those times.  It should be on the order of 4000 ounces of gold currently.

I sent you 1 BTC, so write something that makes you happy and post it here. 

How much per song?

+1 for Spudzz.  A pleasure to do business with.  I will update this post if there are any chargeback issues.

Actually, it does help if you can open port 8333 on your router.  Even machines which are not mining still pass transactions around.  It improves the connectivity of the network.  Some people are stuck behind firewalls and depend on others accepting inbound connections.

If you are any good at programming, there are plenty of projects under development.  If nothing else, you could buy some Bitcoins and add to one of the bounties.

What is your plan to deal with chargebacks?  I wish you the best of luck.

Appreciate the contribution.  There have been some wallet scams lately, so that is the reason for an abundance of caution.

Personally, I consider contracts between myself and financial institutions to be binding, and I would never default on a loan or credit card debt.  After all, I freely entered into the agreement.  My plan is to pay off all debt (I only have a mortgage for about 25% of home value) and then quit my regular job and move to an area with low property and sales taxes.  With no mortgage or other debt to service and no expensive commute to work, I won't need much of an income, especially if I grow some of my own food.  What little money I need I will obtain by working or trading for cash and/or Bitcoin.  My taxable income will be negligible, so I will be in that vast class of people that puts nothing into the system but still gets all the benefits of living in a modern welfare state.  The very same class of leeches that I supported with my tax dollars for so many years, the people that politicians fawn over with their class-warfare rhetoric.  If enough people did this, we could bankrupt government in a hurry and begin building a post-political future based on peaceful interaction rather than coercion. 

Given your constraints, a 5770 would indeed be the best choice.  I've seen them new for $99 after rebate recently.

+1

Rather than wasting all this bandwidth discussing who is cheating whom, why not try each pool for one week and see where you get the largest payout? 

Very interesting perspective, and of course you're absolutely right.  What would happen if everyone stopped making debt payments, quit their job and stopped paying taxes all at once?  Can we destroy every government and central bank at the same time?  Is this an idea we can take viral? 

I'm at 97 right now, but it is usually 125.  I think there is a hard-coded limit at 125 connections because I've never seen more than that.  My uptime is about 120 days at this point, although I occasionally kill bitcoind briefly to update it.  Bandwidth is 10 Mbps.

The chance is probably way less than the chance that a bank's computers and all of their backups will get destroyed and there will be no way of recovering bank deposits.  Has that prevented people from using banks?

I'll second this recommendation.  You only lose a few percent by mining in a pool.  On the other hand, you could have an unlucky start to your mining and not find a block for 100 days or more.  The general rule of thumb is if your GPU has an average generation time of greater than a couple of weeks then you should mine in a pool.  YMMV.

Most commenting on the internet is negative as it is easier to bash something than to contribute.