Hello,

I know that this is possible but I don't know how it's done.

I have some nieces and nephews that I want to send BTC to on their milestone birthdays (20, 30, 40, 50, & 60). I want to set it up so that it happen automatically. They are still pretty young and I most likely won't be around for most of those birthdays.

Thanks for you help.

But how do I get around the firewall issue? I need to test Hamachi to see if I can get out or it's all pointless. Webpage mining would work but, to my knowledge, they are exclusively CPU miners. Even with 4/8 cores that's not a whole lot.

I don't think that power usage would give me away. This place is huge.

OK. Here's the situation. I recently took a help desk job weekend nights from 4 to midnight. There are about 30 workstations around me sitting idle. All of them are new i7 quad core/8 thread CPUs and all have an ATI Firepro v8700 video cards. I am there alone at that time and every night I work they stare at me, taunting me with their combined mining potential.

Here's the problem. The workstations are all Windows 7 Profession and are locked down by GPO to prevent installation of unauthorized software. The company firewall blocks port 8332. I can write to the hard drive, so it's possible to run a command line miner. I wouldn't be able to install ATI Streams SDK or update the drivers (if needed). I've considered a bootable Linux CD but I'm a novice when it comes to Linux. I've tried setting up a VPN to my home router to get around the firewall but I'm blocked from connecting. I've looked into Himachi portable but haven't really experimented with it yet.

So Gurus, any advice, suggestions, or hacks that you can think of???

My 5770 get's about 185 MH/s. 6990's get 683-746 MH/s. I'm guessing the 746 MS/S is due to overclocking which I wouldn't be doing so I'll have to see what I actually get. Both of my rigs on have single 16x PCIe slots. So I'm trying to get the most bang for my buck with the hardware that I already have without having to buy new motherboards and possibly CPU and memory too.

I just did something similar with two family members. They are each investing ~$800 for two new HD6990's. I fully explained Bitcoin to them, showed them what I was currently generating with a HD5770 and a HD6950, and what the exchange rate is. I told them that there are no guarantees and that the coins generated will decrease over time as difficulty increases. I'm getting a 60/40 split with me getting 60% for power, cooling, and maintenance costs.

I'll let you know in a couple of months where my family has disowned me.