my block erupter is still running on my htpc which is fully up to date and presumably has that new driver. vista 32 bit.

i have it pointed at cks solo pool just for the hell of it.

depends on you heating cost.. if you get heat cheap enough with your normal HVAC system you still lose money heating with old tech ASICs and/or GPUs.. just not as much. loss is loss.

I would lose money big time heating with my GPU and 65 nm ASIC stuff vs my geothermal HVAC.

turn the letter sideways for lower case.

(Firefly fan here) pretty harsh, even for Josh.. he didnt scam little old ladies (unless they were a byproduct).

Sonny OTOH..

OTGH (on the gripping hand) they are slick talkers with zero ethics.. maybe they would make it out OK with management position in the Reaper hierarchy.

[on topic] BFL refused my refund on a 65 nm little single. shipped it 5 months late when it was basically useless. I forwarded that to the FTC.

there is no advantage to running hardware in separate instances as opposed to combining them.

IE two miner instances, running separately on individual 1 TH hardware will have the same chance as 1 miner instance that combines the 2 one TH units.

IOW 2 TH is 2 TH whether its several instances or one instance. the odds are the same either way.

EDIT: con already replied I see. asleep at the switch as usual I am..

found my original block erupter 333 MHs stick and pointed it at your pool.

take THAT!  heheh

and yes I know, no one would be more surprised than I if it ever found a block before the heat death of the universe but I miss mining. and its on my HTPC that is on 24/7 anyway so I think I can afford the additional 2-3 watts and 1% cpu time just to smile when I see the ol' cgminer program in the task bar.

thanks ck!

distilled water may be non (or close to non) conductive, but it will quickly become conductive as impurities leech into it.

it was fun while it lasted.. thanks!

donated the very small amount that was left in my account to ya.

nice to see you guys in the mining scene

for me, a small time home hobbiest miner I would like something like this:

USB connections, multi platform software (or can use cgminer).

stackable, maybe with an ATX mounting layout (stack multiple boards in a standard ATX case to be cat/kid friendly).

individual units around 150-300 watts to easily use on non dedicated circuits, just add/stack boards to meet power capacity.

pcie power.

I have (had) 2 BFL SC power supplies. one died and the other never gave its rated voltage (sagged under load).

the only thing they are good for is the cables. cut em of and use them in custom cable adapters.

you dont understand water loops. take a look at SLI/xfire water loops some time.

I lol at the low hash rate and high error rate though. wonder how many watts that thing is drawing..

sooo glad I bailed the BFL ship after getting singed on my 65 nm gear.

about the life of the chip.. when I think "long term" I think 30, 50 years. as in bury it in the ground or something and my myself or my descendants dig it up  and can use this device alone, with no other info, and recover the coins (assuming the technology to read it still exists).

having it with a lawyer as part of the traditional estate isnt an option if youre hiding it from *everyone*

if Im reading the specs right, this device alone then will not be suitable without some external object (printed keys as a backup to the data in the chip say). or can all that info be in the device itself, perhaps some printed on a slug inside thats not visible till broken? but then how does the user get that printed slug inside?

just thinking on possible uses as the glass enclosure itself should last for centuries, even if the chip itself fails or the tech to read it fades to obscurity.

EDIT: CT scanners are not exotic tech; we have one in the office (smallish multi provider medical practice). they are (relatively) common nowadays. point being that if a CT scanner can read the slug or whatever the physical media is in the device, just having it unbroken may not in itself be a guarantee its not compromised.

So as you say, physical security is important too.

I understand most of this but one aspect is a bit fuzzy to me.

it must be broken to redeem. the password to decrypt the NFC data is etched inside in some fashion? on something that is not destroyed by breaking the glass but not visible or scannable (say by a CT scanner)?

just how unbreakable is it. I mean I can swing a hammer really hard could one break it "too hard" to the point the password is not recoverable? or the NFC chip is broken? or do you read the chip data before breaking it?  perhaps (brief) instructions should be somehow visible when looking at the thing by eye? 30 years from now it may not be easy to figure out what this is if a decedent of mine finds it with no instructions.

Im really liking this. no one will casually toss it out when going through ones estate.

reminds be of the data storage crystals from babylon 5.

a question, and probably a stupid one at that. its one time use and user programmable (right?) and one is not able to check the key without destroying it.  so when programming it is there a checksum or md5 or whatever to verify it took the key? sure would suck to transfer a fortune to it and have it wrong.

just to get this straight..

ALL bitcoint-qt versions have this bug, correct?

how does this bug get triggered? just by having the client running?

or do you need to click a payment link (or something external to the client).. in other words just initiating a transfer via copy/pasteing an address was safe?

as falconfly said, keep the entire card well cooled and it should go years. use a good PSU (seasonic, PC power and cooling, antec etc). use filtered air if possible.

I have 2 nvidia GTX 285's that have been doing folding@home pretty much 24/7 since 2009. I did add arctic cooling accelero xtremes HSFs (3 92mm fans each) about a year in just for noises sake though.

my 5830 has been going since 2011 non stop with BTC back in the day, now scrypt coins. its stock. same for my 6870 although that got an artic cooling HSF too as thats in my daily driver rig an needs to be quiet.

all are overclocked and have been (sometimes - depends on the season and coin prices, or, with F@H, if there was a chimp challenge or other competition going on) overvolted to one degree or another.

no, its a BFL issue.

what other mining hardeware out there need to do this?

 I would be more interested in the APC battery backups than the BFL and asicmine stuff.

love the smoke detector. thats smart although it would respond quicker if it were above it all and  towards the rear of all that airflow.

wrong on the ASIC being just shiny boxes. have you seen some of the ASIC setups? clean wiring, creative cooling, modified ASICs etc

and the computer that currently runs my ASIC setup also mines LTC with a 5830 that used to mine BTC back in the day. so it would fall under both categories..

Josh, do you honestly believe anyone actually believes any words you say??

that said some of what is posted here is BS.

anyhow, here is my fail rate:

1 SC25 running stock firmware @ 31 ghs (thanks bfl) would go "zombie" repeatedly and get restarted in the 2 days I actually ran it on the stock PSU. normally runs flawlessly on the computer PSUs, was an an antec 500, now a seasonic 750. had it a month.

1 jally 5 ghs flashed to 8.2 ghs. PSU failed after 6 months. runs on the seasonic now.

bfl single was fine the year I ran it.

so: 33% fail on the PSUs (50% for the SC series PSU), more if you count flaky operation on the SC25 PSU.