Had problems connecting with the old pushpool over the last few days. Upgraded to a new miner for stratum and no luck with any of the stratum servers. Mining with Slush for now. Details in this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153130.0

Edit: Test server you gave above does work. Hash rate seems a little low (don't see how that works though).

Edit2: Nevermind. I had removed some options during testing. Hash-rate back to regular now.

OK, just noticed the thread this post is in:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95378.msg1614278#msg1614278

Forum searches suck :p

I signed up to Slush and am now happily mining again. Guess it ain't me.

Been happily mining on this pool for a while. Today, checked in and nothing has been happening for a few days (not a biggie, I'm just mining casually). Checked the miner and was getting RPC connection errors. Saw on the page that that the stratum stuff is high availability and what I was using was not so figured it was maybe time to move to the stratum stuff. Upgraded to the latest guiminer and still connection errors. Is this pool broken? Is it something to do with the 0.8 issues? Any ideas? I tried rebooting in case it was something weird at my end. No luck.

$ ./poclbm.exe stratum+tcp://13qnEgPTxJW6mm88dLpnHXZyryN5EXBciq_64:pass@stratum.hhtt.1209k.com:3333 --device=0 --platform=0 --verbose -v -w 128 -r 60
 14/03/2013 19:30:43, ADL_Adapter_ID_Get failed, cutoff temperature disabled for 0:0:Juniper
 14/03/2013 19:30:44, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (Juniper)
 14/03/2013 19:30:44, Setting server (13qnEgPTxJW6mm88dLpnHXZyryN5EXBciq_64 @ stratum.hhtt.1209k.com:3333)
stratum.hhtt.1209k.com:3333 14/03/2013 19:30:44, checking for stratum...
stratum.hhtt.1209k.com:3333 14/03/2013 19:30:45, no response to getwork, using as stratum
stratum.hhtt.1209k.com:3333 14/03/2013 19:30:55, Failed to subscribe
stratum.hhtt.1209k.com:3333 14/03/2013 19:30:57, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2
stratum.hhtt.1209k.com:3333 14/03/2013 19:31:07, Failed to subscribe
stratum.hhtt.1209k.com:3333 14/03/2013 19:31:09, IO errors - 2, tolerance 2
stratum.hhtt.1209k.com:3333 14/03/2013 19:31:20, Failed to subscribe

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I am no tea partier but this is a flat out lie.

The only thing surprising to me is that there are people out there who think politicians feel bound by any oath they take. It wouldn't matter if they swore an oath on a copy of the constitution written on the back of the Magna Carter by the top constitutional scholar with ink made from the ground up exhumed remains of the founding fathers, it's all just words to them. A formality.

The suggestion means that you'll be sitting there, sometime in the afternoon and it'll be year 3124, you'll go to make a cup of coffee and it will be 3125. It would never fly. It makes sense to align significant events just like it does to align 64 bit integers on a 4 byte boundary. It also makes sense to arrange for them to happen during what is generally downtime which is why these things happen at night and not (say) noon.

My birthday's in August

Stephen Fry.

Change it to "Forking Bitcoins, how do they work?"

I may be missing something but it seems to me that when a new version is released, *nothing* it does should be considered valid until there is a high degree of confidence that it is performing as expected. Rollback to 0.7 should have been the default and anyone upgrading to 0.8 should have been made aware that should it generate problems, any output would be regarded as faulty and ignored. If the blockchain continues to match then each block is accepted as valid one at a time. If the blockchain agrees for a long enough amount of time and no issues show up, at some point (Though I know there is no central authority but surely consensus is possible) the new version is accepted as the default and should any discrepancies show up, it is the fork with the new version which is taken as valid and people running outdated versions who are regarded as invalid.

I'm not sure. Maybe it is too much centralization. But hopefully something like the above could apply going forward. Though for preference, maybe some kind of fork resistance could be built in to the protocol.

I know. That's the bit I like. The original story is full of holes.

I like it.

Where in the rules did it say he couldn't make up the rules as he goes along?

I'm not a city boy but I try not to bash cities, they're pretty amazing things. They may be more expensive but they have better jobs and everything is closer and there are so many things to see and do. Like so much in life, it's a trade-off. Different strokes for different folks.

I've been to New York a couple of times and I could see spending a year there. I think that it would be enough for me. I've been to London a few times too but I think I'd top out at a couple of months there (though I had a friend who lived there for a few years and he loved it. He did luck out on cheap rent though).

Great, you're a morning person. Good for you. Not all of us are. Personally, my rhythms would have me in bed at around 4am and waking somewhere around noon. Night time is a perfect time for doing what I like to do. Everything is quiet and concentration and flow comes easy. Unfortunately, I can't find a job which works to my schedule so I'm forced to drag myself out of bed well before time and perform inefficiently all morning until my rhythms catch up. This DST thing has been particularly bad this year. I was useless all day yesterday and had a ****ing headache all evening. A day wasted.

Why do you need a bathroom? It sits empty most of the time and if you have family members or guests over, you run into collision of needs issues. Better to have communal bathrooms. All your bedroom needs is a sink for basic hygiene and to provide water for drinking and small cleaning tasks (more major cleaning can be performed by a dedicated cleaner).

This is pretty much how I lived as a student. It was OK but I couldn't see living the rest of my life like that.

I used to play that game on the Vic 20

Sympathizer