propotional payout should be
((0.97 * 50)/55590 shares) = 0.00087246
though that's on average, it varies a lot from block to block, if pool needs more shares to solve a block, proportional payout will be smaller,
if pools needs less shares to solve a block, proportional payout will be higher.

in your example, you took a block that needed a lot more than on average, so payout was a lot smaller.
on other blocks the pool solved, the payout was a lot higher.

here's some other examples that look quite different to yours:
01.03.2011 06:11:38 shares: 29398 = 0.00164977
01.03.2011 04:27:58 shares: 27938 = 0.00173599
28.02.2011 12:13:30 shares: 40899 = 0.00118585

in the end proportional mode depends on "pooled luck", pay-per-share doesn't.

no, you don't even need to have a bictoin-client installed if you're running the miner on a pool.

the extra flags are for miner parameters, like threads, frames, worksize and stuff

it wouldn't be me finding aliens, it would be the one i'm hashing/searching for
and if he/she pays me in bitcoins, it'd be as useful to me (at least) as generating (less) bitcoins myself.

just like compute4cash, its 'customers' don't care what their processing-power is used for, as long as they get paid (and don't know about bitcoin).

not the first one i see.
just noticed one transaction today that also needed ~3hours to get its first confirmation, while other transactions done at the same time got confirmed as usual within a few minutes.
some other people been waiting 12hours and more, to get 1conf.

so i doubt it's something with his transaction.

i didnt say it's miners' concern, or should be, i just said it has to be something valueable (to someone at least).
i would even search for aliens if it pays better than generating bitcoins. 

they could only attract more and more miners if there's some value in whatever they "generate".
they could actually be buying hashpower for bitcoins, if they pay better, than the bitcoin-market, a lot of miners will switch,
but that's kinda unlikely.

...get even more solo. 

don't get me wrong, i'm not saying "don't use pools",
actually i'm using pools myself (with ~1.5Gh/s), to get a steady income that i can count on without the need of much luck,
but "mathematically" it could be more solo.

that's why it says "mathematically speaking". 

mathematically speaking it's always better to run solo, no matter what difficulty or hashrate.
on pools you will always lose some hashes due to network-overhead (~2-3%) and probably some due fees to the operator.

but then again on pools you dont need much patience, you will see results (even if those are small) more or less instantly
and you are not depended on your own luck.

wieso müsste bei jedem trade MwSt gezahlt werden?
wenn ich von dir ein auto kaufe, zahle ich ja auch keine MwSt,
solange du kein bitcoin-geschäft aufmachst und gewerblich tätig wirst, ist auch ein bitcoin-trade ein privat-verkauf
und beim verscherbeln von kram auf eBay zahlt ja auch kein privatmensch MwSt.

handelst du geschäftlich, musst du natürlich auch steuern zahlen, gewerbesteuer, einkommensteuer,..
ob du im falle von bitcoins auch MwSt für vater staat einziehen musst, kann dir dann sicher dein steuerberater erzählen.

"illegal" ist der handel mit bitcoins mit sicherheit nicht, denn dann wäre auch der handel mit anderen "digitalen tokens" wie zB Linden Dollar illegal.

guten tach,

da wir nun schon ein deutsches froum haben, hab ich gedacht wir können vllt. auch nen deutschen chat gebrauchen.

wer also lieber chatten, als posten möchte und der englischen sprache nicht so ganz mächtig ist (oder einfach nur keine lust hat, englisch zu quatschen),
ist ab sofort herzlich willkommen in #bitcoin-de auf irc.freenode.net.

"no block confirmation is needed" is meant for real blocks that the pool found in a day, not for all hashes/shares miners send.

your "Average speed in last 5 minutes" is calculated by the number of shares you submitted,
in lucky times (were you find lots of diff1 hashes in a very short time) you might see much more speed than you actually do, in unlucky times, you see less speed.
overall it seems pretty accurate, an increased timeframe for calculation might improve accuracy a bit though.

GMT it seems, correct me if i'm wrong.

what could contributors lie about?
the only way of "cheating" is the same you mentioned above, legitimately contribute work to the pool and "pool-hopping" as discussed in other threads.

sorry to get OT, but...

who are you to tell people what words to put in their thread titles and what not?
i could also tell you to remove your posting from this thread, not only implying that [Tycho] has anything against slush's pool (which is not the case afaik), but also implying slush has something against competition (which is also not the case afaik).
but don't worry, i wont do that.

and i didnt see anything about one pool being more or less fair than any other pool,
it's up to the users to decide which one to use and what's most "fair" in their eyes.
 

wild guess:
he ran off again with peoples BTCs, but will be back soon with a new forum-account "..to make things right.." (which probably means "find more idiots to trust him" in his language).

could say "i told you not to trust him", but i won't.

cool, seems to work fine so far (except for the 2nd core of my 5970 which still needs poclbm_20101126 to run),

tested on slush's, deepbit and local.

my PhenomII X3 gets ~7800+khash/s already on jgarziks cpu-4way, or ultrasofts cpu-miner,
an X6 should get about twice as much.

afaik there is no -server= parameter on puddinpops cuda-miner, parameters should look like this

if your brother is only mining on your server, he doesn't need to have a bitcoin-client installed (and started as a -server),
he only needs m0mchils miner and connect that to your bitcoin-client.
your bitcoin-client needs to be started as a -server, allowing his m0mchil-miner to connect.
you can simplify that by creating a bitcoin.conf like this
for your bitcoin-client (where .0.2 is the IP of your brothers desktop).

and to join pools, connect all miners (or all you want to run on the pool) to the pool, not to a bitcoin-client.
bitcoin-clients can not be connected to pools,
only miners can do that.

well, it is "underclockable" on windows,
had it running at 800-900MHz the last week.

now i finally got ubuntu setup and running, just with some more degrees on the cards cuz of the higher memclock, which...well, kinda sucks.