I was order number 10810 ordered on October 11, 2012 and just received my Jalapeno today.  So they're definitely making progress on at least one front.  It's been running for the last few hours in cgminer and averaging around 5.2Gh/s.  Hopefully they'll start getting some of those bigger device orders out the door for folks soon.

What I hope to see which could really help adoption are more online games doing microtransactions start accepting Bitcoins.  I know I saw at least one poker site on the current list.  But it would be a huge boost I think if one of these free to play MMORPG's started accepting Bitcoins and also started acting as an exchange.  There are plenty of these types of games out there already.  It's just a matter of convincing the owners to take the plunge.

Even one of the Facebook minigames would be sufficient to get the ball rolling.

Good luck with that.  slush was the person who told me it was a limitation on his end.  He did respond to my email at least.

*laugh*  Are people still waiting for the corpse of OpenSolaris to wake up from the dead and start doing something again?  I like ZFS and all, but using something that is so marginalized at this point seems like a "Bad Idea"™.  I'm not referring to bitcoind specifically.  I just meant as far as operating systems go.

I'd also like to add OpenBSD to your list.  Hell, I'm not even sure bitcoind works on OpenBSD.  From what little searching I just did, it seems like it doesn't yet.  That seems like an oversight since it's always billed as one of the most secure operating systems in existence, out of the box anyway.  Having said that, encfs under FUSE in any Linux still seems like the best way to go for now until the wallet natively supports encrypted private keys.  And even then, it would probably be a good thing to keep it on some kind of encrypted file system.

I'm still annoyed that all of the big pools still seem to want to short you the smaller denominations in your account.  Is anyone even running such old clients that this is an issue still?

And don't tell me to email them to get the remaining balance because I did, and one person never responded and the other told me that the limitation was on his end.  I don't really know if I believe that entirely.  And yes, I realize that it seems like a trivial sum of money.  But it is suppose to be my money after all at this point.  And for the foreseeable future, it won't ever be, especially for pools on which I don't mine anymore.

I would say at the very least that something about the "newbie" restrictions needs to be added in the user profile area.  I only just recently stumbled across the newbies section further down in the topic list discovering why I wasn't able to message anyone or post anything anywhere else.  At least movie the newbie section to the top of the forum listing.  I've been looking at the forum page for weeks and only just now happened to see the newbie section with its helpful note as to why I've basically been locked out of the forums until now.

I know it's coming, but I still can't fathom why the client didn't include the option early on of encrypting the private keys in use in your wallet.  Seems like an obvious requirement for such a currency as this.

In a similar boat.  I wanted to reply to the chicken and egg thread over in the discussion area.  I'm working on achieving that shortly.

While it's mildly annoying, I understand the reasoning.  Still, I'm not sure how much it will deter those who are seriously determined.

I would say at the very least that something about the "newbie" restrictions needs to be added in the user profile area.  I only just recently stumbled across the newbies section further down in the topic list discovering why I wasn't able to message anyone or post anything anywhere else.  At least movie the newbie section to the top of the forum listing.  I've been looking at the forum page for weeks and only just now happened to see the newbie section with its helpful note as to why I've basically been locked out of the forums until now.