That ought to teach all those non-believers!

The windows and linux output is meant to look the same. Usually when something doesn't work on the windows version, like the text user interface, your virus software has been silently fucking you over by deleting files without you knowing - mining software is often falsely accused of being viruses.

Hardware errors are not uncommon at high overclocks or high temps. Just bump the clocks down a little or drop temps further. If you haven't overclocked, it may be a sign of some hardware instability but likely is harmless.

To be honest I had no idea anyone was still actively working on it. It certainly didn't look like it so I apologise. I also was not passing judgement on Coblee since it's too much for one person to shoulder. As for a bitcoin dev that attacks others? It's pretty obvious who that would be... 

Do you see any developers currently working on LTC? Any that have commit access to the official source that are working? Have the previous developers handed over responsibility to anyone they can trust? I put it to you that LTC development is in a very precarious state and these are questions anyone investing heavily in LTC needs to ask themselves.

Segfaults with GPU mining are usually one of: Dodgy hardware, dodgy driver or corrupted/mixed AMD APP SDK install. The last is the most common one. Clear out any SDK files you can find and install it again, and delete any .bin files generated in the cgminer directory.

Except that the cryptocurrency microcosm at the moment is a finite relatively small number of people and generally when people choose an altchain they are doing it at the expense of supporting the bitcoin ecosystem (on whatever level you consider them "supporting" it).

Rome's architects didn't abandon it though...

The original intent behind using scrypt for litecoin mining was trying to do precisely this. Scrypt was a good choice for it, but unfortunately, the parameters chosen were not well enough thought out and it was still possible to parallelise the workload and use GPU memory efficiently to do the same thing. Different scrypt parameters would make it possible to make it basically impossible to use on GPUs.

You mean would negate that. There is no guarantee it will be higher 

Though I do believe value will continue to rise.

You should be using stratum to the server and stratum to the proxy rather than getwork to the proxy.

Thanks, I guess 

I see nothing has changed while I was away... not that I expected anything more  . Fortunately, I predicted well that 2.10.4 would be a cracker release and it has lived up to my expectations.

Yes Kano we know, enough already... wait till hardware materialises and then we'll see.

Don't underestimate the amount of inertia on the part of miners. A large chunk of miners simply start mining and once everything is working they never touch it again till it breaks.

In the larger world of linux kernel development for example, when developing original novel code for new hardware all we need to do is ask the manufacturers nicely for some sample hardware and provided the developer is a known developer for code in the past they are often given samples of hardware that isn't even available for sale yet. This is always going on with the manufacturing from Intel, AMD, IBM etc. They are aware that having software available for their hardware is only beneficial to their hardware sales and the cost of sponsoring the software development directly versus giving away a few hardware samples is a simple equation that works in their favour. Indeed the developers are often invited to pre-release talks from the manufacturers regarding the hardware development and their input valued and can often change hardware development direction before release because these are the people who know what they're talking about and the manufacturers realised this long ago. Great hardware is only ever made when the software developers are involved in the development process and the software that goes with it is shipped at the same time.

Thinking us software developers just want "freebies" is just a short sighted view of the world. It's only on this round of bitcoin hardware development (with ASICs) that the manufacturers have even begun to embrace what the massive manufacturers have been doing for years, and not remotely on the scale that Intel and AMD would since we're largely in the dark about the hardware and communication protocols until virtually the release date. Of course the scale, timelines and profit margins are completely different, but the variables remain the same.

EDIT: Trust me, you don't want to actually contract me to do software work. It's prohibitively expensive - just ask coinlab who did contract me. Or, you can rely on me coding free software instead.

Jeff Garzik was the original author of minerd which evolved into cgminer which I now maintain. There are most definitely still remnants of his original code still in cgminer today which is GPL licensed. Given that fact, I think it highly likely he will have an interest in making sure the code for a customised cgminer for avalon hardware is made available. I very much doubt given Jeff's history with free software that he will just ask for the code and just look at it himself without making it available for everyone else.

Yes that's right. It's largely of historical value when the getwork protocol was often the rate limiting step and means less and less with both stratum and variable difficulty.

No, these are now "diff hoppers", people on the brink of profitability who wait for the diff to drop, then mine until the diff rises, then stop. They did so numerous times on the LTC chain which changes more frequently, but they're doing it now to the BTC chain.

#define CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES                         -5

Some driver and/or device problem and the new cgminer version was purely coincidental. Reboot, reinstall drivers etc...

No crazyates, you understand perfectly well. Value going up will bring more mining, but the reverse is not true - more mining will not increase the currency's value. Trade, transactions and perceived value based on those determines the price of the currency. Far too many people in the bitcoin community are here purely because of mining and are totally detached from the concept that it's a cryptocurrency trade system we're trying to create here, and are only focused on mining profit. The best thing the miners can do to increase the value of their chosen currency is to start offering services or products with that currency to encourage trade in it instead of just concentrating on mining. As the profit margins of LTC mining whittle away the reality will eventually dawn on them, and people will switch off mining hardware for LTC as well. One could always have a belief that long term the value of their currency will eventually rise and then go on mining at a borderline loss, seeing it as some kind of long term investment. But then you could do the same with BTC too, since its price could also rise much more. Despite that, there is clear evidence that people invest in mining hardware and turn it on when price rises, and sell hardware and turn it off when price falls.