I get idles here and there all the time.  My cgminer says "Pool is not providing work fast enough".  It doesn't bother me because it is such a small percentage of the good work that is getting pulled/submitted.  All the other features of the pool outweigh the issue.

I almost killed a 9600GT, my first mining card.  After a couple days of running it will start to artifact on its own not even mining, just showing a Windows desktop.

My 5830's have slowly lost overclocking abilities.  I used to be able to push over 1,000MHz, now I can barely hit 980MHz.  For a couple of weeks I was running super high voltage on them also.  24/7 mining + heat (especially if you crank voltage) will definitely kill a card.  The big boys that have large farms are no strangers to flat out smoking cards and having to replace them left and right.

You would rather want to set up an automatic backup pool on a mining program like cgminer.  That way you actually have a chance of making money.

I'm thinking the same thing.  Attempt to spike difficulty down at the last couple hundred blocks before adjustment.

Maybe the DDoS on the pools is to spike the difficulty down in the last 100-200 blocks.

Who is Munin?

I get "free" electricity for my small setup, so I have no real shutdown point.  However, my HDD died on my mining rig and right now I could care less that its not hashing while I order a SSD.  The price of a bitcoin is so low that now it's only for fun.  Paid off my cards a long time ago.

It can take 10 million "tries" to find a block right now.  Everyone keeps tell you to stop soloing and join a pool.  So join a pool already!

Set the fans to fixed speed of 70% on each card and see what happens after like 6 hours.  The way your driver is crashing is the way my 5830's crash when they are too hot or the clock speeds are too high.

Face it man, you don't get how it works and you lost money trying to figure it out.  Take your loss and go play somewhere else.

I'm sick of this stable price crap.  Can't make money day trading.

I was wondering that also.

If you want your computers to work together you would have to set up your own pool using pushpool or poolserverJ.  Otherwise they are just separate solo instances and would take even longer, statistically, to find a block.

I'm going to agree with this train of thought.  After months of mining and overclocking on my 5830's I've learned a few things.  First - automatic fan control will not work at all.  I have to set my fans at fixed 65% or more.  This doesn't just keep the core cool, it cools off the entire board (read: VRMs).  If I go lower than 50% fan my GPU's will freeze even though the core temperature is reported to be in the 60c range.  This amplified by the fact that I am open-case.  I don't have airflow over the mobo like inside a case.  If you waterblock doesn't hit all the areas on your GPU's and you are open-case...I wouldn't be surprised on the lock ups.

If you add random decimal places then your order is more likely to go through in one shot, versus multiple trades as the value bounces above or below your nice round psychological number.

It's almost a slow steady rise opposite of the slow steady fall we have been experiencing for weeks.  Sucks, cuz I just went short on Bitcoinica to test it out.

Yeah down for me too.  E will get it fixed fast cuz he is made of awesome.

Woo!  Rally!

Nah, it's up.  You just aren't looking hard enough for the hidden link to the rest of the site 

Excellent video.  This is about the 3rd video that I have watched about "money" since I discovered the bitcoin community and those of you who like to spread knowledge about how money really works.  I've learned more about money in the last 6 months than I have in the last 28 years.  The truths still shock me.