Usually a remodel will have better wiring. New construction by builders = as cheap as they can possibly get without setting fire to the place prior to sale. After sale = who cares!
+1 for cookie cutter boxes, but many custom builders are a little more careful. I've experienced both, and unfortunately many of the inexpensive remodels are 14 with a mixture of knob and tube in some shoddy bungalows. Most of the build to order houses near me are all done up with 12 everywhere. Some (including ours) even have a 400 amp service entrance. |
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Now if Atlas and I had both gone, that's different. I'm sure plenty of people would have joined just to see us make out.
Damn right. I could have charged admission and made a fortune! In San Antonio? Maybe try Pattaya next time. Then only gay Bruce wannabees will show up. I think that's what he was implying.  I figured you guys would put on a better show. |
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Now if Atlas and I had both gone, that's different. I'm sure plenty of people would have joined just to see us make out.
Damn right. I could have charged admission and made a fortune! In San Antonio? Maybe try Pattaya next time. Then only gay Bruce wannabees will show up. |
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nda is up and reviews are out. The 680 is shredding the 7970 in most applictions... Can't wait to see the mining performance.
What games are most similar to bitcoin mining in that they use integers heavily? Perhaps we could compare such a game and make a little bit of a better determination. I doubt that many games make heavy use of integer ops though, at least not in a remotely similar way to how mining does. |
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Well, for starters I can't be bothered to look through the cgminer thread to find out what I am doing wrong. What flags are usually used for no gpus and only BFL units with cgminer? For ufasoft, I use this: bitcoin-miner-x64.exe -i 2 -o http://user:pass@pool.com:8332 And I can add and remove devices without a software hiccup, since it recognizes them as soon as they are plugged in. If you're using the cgminer binaries, it won't work - BFL is disabled by default, you need re-compile it with it enabled. Ah that's where I was tripping up. I like the plug-n-play ufasoft version, so I don't have to specify each device, but I want my BAMT charts and graphs  rjk, what do you mean 'you do not have to specify each device' with ufasoft? You are using the "-i 2" flag, which specifies the 2nd device. My understanding of ufasoft is that if you have multiple devices, the others wouldn't do anything unless you specify "-i 2 -i 3 -i 4" etc. Similar to cgminer. Or you could forego the "-i" flag altogether and ufasoft will default to use ALL devices, but since that includes your CPU it probably isn't something you want. Is there some combination of flags that will default to ALL devices EXCEPT your cpu? Yes, sorry, I hadn't tested with more than one device and assumed that all BFLs showed up as device #2 in Ufasoft. I would have left out -i altogether, but as you noted it then starts using the CPU, which sucks. What would be ideal is a flag to EXCLUDE things, so I could go -e 1 and exclude the CPU. |
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I really dont understand what you guys are reading in to those IPs?
The IPS are of whoever is relaying the blocks, you could be looking at the IP of deepbit, or any other pool or random bitcoin user.
So your saying its what? A hacked linux box some place? My senile mothers zombie laptop? we could still start an investigation that could point in the direction of the botnet we could still get lucky it certainly cant hurt  The botnet owner can force his blocks to be relayed by anyone that accepts them, which could be another pool, or a bitcoind out on the internet somewhere. Just because the block is FIRST SEEN at some IP address, that does not mean that that IP address is automatically the botnet head controller. You might be notifying the ISP of someone's VPS that they keep a bitcoind on just to help relay txns around the net, which isn't uncommon. |
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If they bothered to employ competent admins, they would know how to use SSL properly and avoid such things happening. Only possible attack would be either users not realizing they have been sent to a non-https proxy, or the FBI getting a fake certificate that has a valid root (via coercion or secret subpoena). |
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I assumed that people on this forum--who use a decentralized currency--would appreciate a book on privacy.
I was wrong.
I might be wrong, but I think a lot of people here already know this stuff. Maybe you could try selling it on Amazon? If I could get my hands on a paper edition of your book and spend 30-60 seconds on skimming through it I would know if it is worth (for me at least, I'm not sure how much if any of the information provided in your book is new to me) those $25. I'll be watching this thread and see if any reputable forum members posts reviews of it. What I would do if I were you would be to give it for free or with a discount to one of the mods or admins on this forum and ask them for thorough review in return. +1 |
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that would a stupid waste of taxpayers money.
Sounds like a perfect government project. |
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Now if Atlas and I had both gone, that's different. I'm sure plenty of people would have joined just to see us make out.
Damn right. |
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OK. Now anyone can think about how to avoid that the BTC network get plagued by swarms of botnets any time from now? Then we should rename "proofs of work" in "proofs of crimes". Funny way to back an e-currency.
Plagued? Mining blocks increases network security, it does not decrease it. If the liquidity of the exchanges are not high enough to absorb a large miner dumping his coins, that is our fault for not having faith in it and packing it full of money. While the idea of botnets are abhorrent to me, I sure as fuck would rather see them mining bitcoins instead of sending me spam and phish emails. |
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So you you mean a completely sealed capsule/module that contains a miner that produces heat? And then you dunk it in?
Yes - drop it to the bottom, plug in power and ethernet, heat the hot tub and mine coins! It would be nice if it could be WiFi too, but WiFi won't penetrate water worth a damn. So, Ethernet is the only choice. Air is a very good insulator.
The air in the case will not effectively conduct the heat from the heatsinks to the outside of the case, because as D&T noted it has properties that cause insulation and not conduction. It would simply overheat and shut down. |
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Last I heard people are innocent until proven guilty,
+1 No, apart a confession on the bitminter irc channel and some other thingies.
What if I told you that that "confession" was me, exercising my right to free speech? I could lie if I want to, I'm not under oath. Anyone could have shown up and said all kinds of shit. As for the hardware manifest, well it might surprise you but I have access to things like that. Kind of normal in most large enterprises to keep a list of your hardware. |
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How is it not personal information to know what he is doing with his money/bitcoins? He's broken no laws (at least none I'm concerned with) and has just as much expectation to privacy as much as anyone else. I can understand wondering, but going so far as to think you deserve to know?
Hijacking others' hardware and stealing their electricity is fine for you? And doing that in order to steal boatloads of blocks from legit miners? The guy is a fucking criminal that should be lynched a.s.a.p. We have NO evidence that any botnet is operating, and most certainly no evidence that would be admissible in a court of law. |
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It seems to me that asking if some blocks have been cashed out is not asking for some personal info.
If you aren't able to follow the blocks yourself using the blockchain/blockexplorer/ABE, etc, then you shouldn't even be posting. You are asking for information that mtgox may have, but disclosing it is in violation of their privacy policy and privacy requirements of pretty much any jurisdiction. Therefore, even if they had info they sure as hell are not going to tell you anything without a court order. And have fun getting a court order with ~no evidence of wrongdoing. |
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BTW, they do make redundant PSUs that use 4 or 6 ATX-sized modules meant for 2000-4000 watt blade servers.
I've been picking apart the 80plus certification list, so I'm pretty much certain that I have not missed anything that is 80plus certified. But if you know of something that has good efficiency but isn't shown on plugloadsolutions.com, then let me know. Also I need to be able to get it cheap on ebay  Dude, enterprise PSUs were 80plus a decade before Antec started the 80plus program (which indecently was to attack PC Power and Cooling, their biggest competitor.... and all PCP&C did was affix 80plus stickers to their PSUs with zero changes in design. Sadly, PCP&C was bought by OCZ, OCZ moved it to China, and all the MK II products are fucking shit). However, I was thinking about something like this: http://www.supermicro.com/products/SuperBlade/powersupply/3000 watt, seems to use standard sized redundant modules, 4 of them, 250A of 12v, 94% peak efficiency. Good points. I have actually seen that PSU - it is on the 80plus list under the 240volt section, but I can't find it for sale, at least not at a reasonable price. If you know of a cheap source, I'd be interested. |
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Exactly the reason why i opened this thread was that i've not written a SHA256 algorithm from scratch based on documentation (nor studied it), tho i've written some other 10^(10^100) simpler algos.
But my original intent was not to attack SHA256 but rather utilize more of the underlying hardware for even some benefit, even how miniscule a single benefit is. But yeah, i guess it boils down to that.
Bitcoin mining is essentially attacking SHA256 at full force, and making it "faster" by reducing the number of operations needed to complete a round is essentially breaking the protocol, which has been deemed unbreakable (as of yet). |
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Though I'm NOT going to do this Mathew-style, dragging it out for two month before finally getting it sent out No prob, though you stole my thunder with that clarification line at the end of your post. That's where I was going next. Thanks, Rassah. Sorry, I could read you like the side of a barn with turned into a coffee table through it Fix'd |
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BTW, they do make redundant PSUs that use 4 or 6 ATX-sized modules meant for 2000-4000 watt blade servers.
I've been picking apart the 80plus certification list, so I'm pretty much certain that I have not missed anything that is 80plus certified. But if you know of something that has good efficiency but isn't shown on plugloadsolutions.com, then let me know. Also I need to be able to get it cheap on ebay |
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