You can add alternate power. There are supplementary PSUs for such things (without the mainboard connector) or you could just use another PSU (I have done that before when adding hard-drives caused my main PSU to shut down due to drawing too much power to tide me over until I got a more capable main PSU). I have also used a 12V supply for a IDE/SATA to USB adapter to power an internal hard-drive in a pinch.

This is slightly risky in that if your voltages are slightly off, you could theoretically end up having too much current flow where it should not but that has never been an issue for me.

Here is one pulled at random from google. Not recommending, no association, etc.

http://www.cputopia.com/fsp-group-booster-x5.html?utm_source=googlepepla&utm_medium=adwords&id=20206522684&utm_content=pla&gclid=CKuR--TJxLICFQQ4nAodgkIA_w

Would it not be a good idea to replace Captchas with small Bitcoin payments? Less annoying and actually gets the spammers to hand over some money. Possibly make it an alternative and see which people choose.

The problem comes with what to do with what you can't afford to lose. It has to go somewhere (though at this stage, new Bitcoin institutions are particularly risky).

Don't think of it as Bitcoin appreciating, think of it as the dollar depreciating

Happening again. Grrr. I think the RJ45 might be sliding out of the socket as it reconnected when I pushed it back in this morning. The little spring clip had been squashed flat and broke off when I tried bending it back. Guess I will be re-crimping tonight.

I'm mining in a pool for now. I think this may be network card related. I have disabled the power saving option on it and will see how that goes.

The card is stock setup.

OK, I am a new miner of just over two days (I'll post in the introduce yourself section in a bit). For the second day in a row, I have come home and have apparently not been mining anything from a little after I left the computer the night before.

Yesterday, I just figured the computer had gone to sleep so I set it to never sleep. Today I got home and pyminer had something about a communications problem in the status bar, my hash rate was saying 998GH/s (I wish, normally 126M). My pool page shows no blocks submitted during that time. Internet was accessible. The standby mode for the monitor is set at 10 minutes. Could that be causing it? This is on Windows 7 with a 6770.

I restarted pyminer and it appears to be running normally. If it did do any work during that time, it's gone

Thanks