Might be late for me to offer advice.  If so, then please ignore. 

(If not, then please donate bitcoin!)

I recommend that you examine SP:
http://somethingpositive.net/

The drawing style is similar to yours, although not an exact match.

SP threads/storylines are not the best, and the subject matter is not the best. 

Nevertheless, SP has a large and loyal following.  The cynical humor and presentation techniques are pretty good. 

If you look into the archives, you will see that there are multiple storylines.  Each storyline is presented in small bursts, with several or many sequential daily pages used to present a burst, over a week or two of time. 

Also, the data base allows reading individual pages in chronological order, or in subject order.  And the pages in a given burst can be identified from the title/name (in the archive listing) without need to read the entire burst.  There are quite a few singleton pages...pages that tell a more or less complete story in one day...but I find these to be less interesting. 

Most of the storylines are related to each other, and there are many cross-references.  This is a bit confusing to a new reader.  But I find that it makes the complete body of work more interesting. 

If you read from the beginning (which will take a long, long time) you will note that all of the characters have an interesting...or at least plausible...back story that explains how each character is related to another. 

I could say more, but will wait a bit, to see comments from other forum members.

Oh yes...this is my favorite comic. 
http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/comics/bitcoin-future

- TFeagle

Note: Please send all extra/surplus BTC/XCB to = 1FKHCUrKR8ahAFHP44pvbURsRxtfrgoNgG

 

@MsBitcoin:  Well done.  I salute you.  Ignore the haters. 

I'm guessing that your company uses service providers that are physically located within the continental USA.  Do you have mirrored systems on different continents, in the event of a disaster?  If the USA FBI accidentally took the rack containing your BitCoin repository...could you resume normal operations within a reasonable amount of time?  And without the loss of anyone's coins? 

Well, I play the stock market, and so monitor the activities of companies like NetApp [NTAP] and Rackspace Hosting [RAX].  Several of these companies are currently selling massive amounts of new server farm hardware, mostly to other companies that want to be in the cloud computing market.  Since CPU miners use 95% to 100% of CPU cycles at a low priority, and will still allow other software to run without much difficulty, a CPU miner app is ideal for testing & burn-in of newly installed cloud servers.  If I were on the installation crew, and there was no rule against it, I would run every newly assembled rack for 24-48 hours as a CPU miner.  If I could get permission, I would even schedule entire rooms of servers to be run for 24-48 hours in order to verify power use and cooling resources.  Some server farms are large.  Imagine a warehouse full of racks, all packed with blade server boxes.   If I could control one of the Google or Amazon facilities for a week, then I would likely never need work again. ("Lobster or steak?  Or both?  Yes, I think we'll have both.") 

One never knows when a crappy service job might just turn into a million dollar opportunity. 

- TFeagle

 

I am content to wait patiently until I qualify for release by normal means.

However, could some nice person please post my noob questions (and follow-on research) to the support thread for RPCminer? 

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19755.msg249151#msg249151

I would like to request a version of RPCminer for Windows that is compiled using static linking for VC++ modules, as opposed to needing the download and install of redistributable VC++ library.  (Also, a distribution of RPCminer in .MSI format would be fine.) 

- TFeagle

So, now I try to answer my own questions.  (20110619)

Apparently .NET (or at least .NET 2.0) already includes a subset of visual C++ redistributable libraries.  It appears that CRT and SCL modules are included in .NET 2.0 as managed code.  (See: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nikolad/archive/2005/09/02/running-c-application-built-by-vc-express-on-another-computer.aspx page 01, in the comments, about half-way down.)  If an application uses only redistributable CRT and/or SCL VC++ modules, then it can be fixed by installing .NET.  

The best fix (better than installing .NET) is for end-user to install the correct VC++ redistributable library.  However, there seem to be as many as four versions to select from.  (See: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nikolad/archive/2005/03/18/398720.aspx)  Not clear from the blogs, but I am thinking that some versions of the the VC++ libraries will not play nice with applications compiled by using other versions of the libraries.  

There is also reason to believe that default Win XP distribution from Microsoft includes some C++ modules taken from VC6.  (See: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nikolad/archive/2005/09/02/running-c-application-built-by-vc-express-on-another-computer.aspx page 01 again, near the bottom.  Post by Nikola Dundar.)  Behavior of mismatched applications is not clearly defined in the post.  But conclusion by Nikola Dundar is that VC++ libraries must be distributed along with application in order to insure expected/wanted behavior at runtime.  So, I am thinking that applications created using VC++ 2005 absolutely will not work with Win XP unless the VC++ 2005 libraries are either installed or linked.  

In this situation...creating Windows binary versions of BitCoin mining applications for distribution to the public...I am thinking the best solution would be to compile the Windows miner binaries using static linking.  Even though this is not recommended by Microsoft.

Please, please to miner authors who use VC++,  can you create Windows binaries that are static linked to the correct VC++ libraries?  Alternately, could you release miner application in .MSI format, which will install correct VC++ libraries for us automagically?  

Thank you.
- TFeagle

I'm a noob, and cannot post to the threads where the big dogs romp.  So, I'm posting here instead.

I'm trying to run the Windows version of RPCminer-cuda having date code 20110227.  It's failing to run, and is giving me error messages that look like one of two things.  I think that either I have the wrong version of C++ redistributable, or the wrong version of Microsoft .NET framework.  (I don't actually know if RPC miner uses Microsoft .NET, but I saw a post that seemed to say that I needed .NET.)

Does anyone happen to know which C++ redistributable I need for the 20110227 version of RPCminer-cuda?

Does anyone know if I need the .NET framework loaded, and if so, which version I need?


Thanks.  
- TFeagle

Has anyone investigated the economics of using an inexpensive home theater
motherboard with built-in Nvidia ION2010 GPU for mining?  Frys has an Asus
board, with Intel D525 atom processor and Nvidia GPU included, for less than
$200.00 USD. 

http://www.frys.com/product/6348451?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Seems as though I can buy 4-6 of these boards, plus memory, for about the
same cost as a normal mining rig. 

I have not done the power use calculations yet.  I'm planning to visit Frys
this weekend, and will obtain the TDP numbers. 

Thanks!
- TFeagle
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Hello. 

I'm michael.  Registered here as TFeagle.  Pleased to meet you all.

- michael