I tried it this morning, pointing it at deepbit.net (just like I was doing with the December 2011 version).

Result: 0.0 MH/s

After a few minutes of getting 0.0 MH/s, I reflashed the "old" (December 2011) firmware and was back to my usual 199 MH/s again.

Any ideas?

Is the long-polling command line parameter now mandatory? I have never used it.

I think he pipes the exhaust air of the fan to the white plastic water canister, so that the water in it evaporates faster and humidifies the room air more than what would happen without this feeble air stream.

Initially I had only a 2 GHash setup, give or take, and was still in the process of building rigs when the Bitcoin exchange rate plummeted to $3.

I think I spent between 4 and 5 grand on hardware, but recouped only about 1 grand by selling Bitcoins. In the end I had a 5 GHash setup consisting of 8 computers, most (but not all) of them with 4 graphics cards in them, most (but not all) 5830 cards. Some cards were 6790 cards (a waste of money). I did not overclock, but still encountered cooling problems. This party ended when they gave me a 3 day notice to vacate due to "breach of contract", using the office for other purposes than is written in the [boilerplate] lease contract. I complied with the 3 day notice, since my lease had just expired and the contract did say "no right to holdover". So, legally, I was on very thin ice there.

And I continued to suffer from MASSIVE outages, either due to DDoS on the mining pools I was mining at, or due to the Comcast cable connection throttling, or whatever. I was constantly switching mining pools, it was not even funny. Some mornings I would come to the office and all the rigs were idle and the room was almost cold...

Yeah, I've also seen that now.

What I mean by "it's not disclosed" is, when you register they make you prominently aware of the fact that you may not post anywhere but in the newbie forum, but they don't make you aware of the fact that you cannot send a message. Took me a few minutes to figure out.

Forgot to say, right now I'm interested in FPGA mining (due to the lower power draw) and have ordered a ZTEX board, but it hasn't arrived yet and I think it is too expensive. I'm not criticizing ZTEX - as a business, they need to price their products so that they make a profit on them, but their margin makes their product too expensive for commercial Bitcoin mining.

OK, I live in California, have been Bitcoin mining since late June / early July, was (at one point) sucking about 40 Amps (20 from one circuit and 20 from another) to power a total of 8 mining rigs, subsequently got kicked out of the single room office I had been renting (not just for Bitcoin mining), now I'm mining in another rented office on only 3 rigs. It's still hot in there :-)

I kind of doubt that anybody reads this...

Hi, I was aware that as a newbie I cannot post a forum post except to the newbie forum, but was never told that I cannot message another member.

Q1: Why is this crippling restriction omitted from the disclaimer?

Q2: Now many forum posts does it take to be able to message another member?

IMHO, people will just make useless posts in the Newbie forum to get around this restriction, thus it's pointless and a time waster for everyone.