My Bitcoin client 11.1 is telling me it's obsolete and to upgrade.  Why is the relatively current client obsolete?

I just installed Bitcoin core .11.1 over my .10.2.  It's starting up and displaying the message "Activation best chain".  I have never seen a message like that.  What, exactly, does it mean?
Thanks,
Sam

I was just checking my peers list in my Bitcoin client and I see a node which has a starting block height of 692600.  The block chain is only up to 358578 or so at the moment.  Anyone know what the deal is with this?
Thanks,
Sam

From:
http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,703.0.html

Hi All,

I've spent some time looking at Bitcoin wallets. I seem to have Electrum at least starting OK (I have no bitcoins hence haven't tried any transactions).

http://smedley.id.au/tmp/electrum-2.0.3-os2-20150329.zip

This is a bundle of Python 2.7 + PtQt4 v4.11.3 + Electrum v2.03

See readme.os2 for some details.

Once there is more testing, I'll do some work to split out PyQt4, Python and electrum.

Cheers,

Paul

Electrum Build for OS/2 and eComStation Operating Systems.  As the post says it is considered a test build.  Would like to hear your test results.

Direct Download Link for binary
http://smedley.id.au/tmp/electrum-2.0.3-os2-20150329.zip

Thanks,
Sam

When will there be variable or use defined difficulty and stratum support in the Bitcoin client?  It seems it is needed very badly.

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I used to be a field service technician for a vertical market manufacturer.  As such I was only peripherally involved with the actual manufacturing process.

When a new product was designed the first run usually used FPGA's for the proprietary circuitry.  When enough units were sold and the design was thought to be solid then they would mask the silicon and have ASIC's made which are allot cheaper than FPGA's.

So I'm at a bit of a loss as to what the big deal is about using ASIC's and the expected huge increase in performance over FPGA's?  Can someone please enlighten me?

It would seem to me that the design would be implemented in FPGA's and then when the design is solid and quantities sold warranted it then move to ASIC's for the lower per chip cost.  But that doesn't seem to be the consensus here.

Thanks,
Sam

I just installed a Radeon HD 4670 AGP in one of my systems.  I can't seem to get it to work as a GPU though.  When I run GPU Caps Viewer it identifies it as a ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series but it also says "Primary renderer - CF disabled (1 adapter(s)".  I can't get the miner to use it either.  Any ideas?

I do have a 600 Watt power supply too.

This is the first GPU that I have tried to use.  I have only had older video cards like the Nvidia FX5200 previously so this is new territory for me.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sam

I just installed a Radeon HD 4670 AGP in one of my systems.  I can't seem to get it to work as a GPU though.  When I run GPU Caps Viewer it identifies it as a ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series but it also says "Primary renderer - CF disabled (1 adapter(s)".  I can't get the miner to use it either.  Any ideas?

I did get a 600 Watt power supply too.

This is the first GPU that I have tried to use.  I have only had older video cards like the Nvidia FX5200 previously.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sam

I have had a problem with my wife's laptop, a Thinkpad x61, when doing CPU Pool mining.  It goes into sleep mode.  I bring it out of sleep and it goes immediately back in.  It will do this 2 or 3 times before it will come out of sleep mode and stay there.  I asked her if this has happened with regular use and it doesn't.

I'm using Ufasoft CPU miner.
Thinkpad X61
Windoze XP $P3

I thought she had gotten a virus on it, but it comes up clean with scans by F-Prot, MRT and Malwarebytes.

Anyone else had this problem?
Thanks,
Sam

Saw a post earlier today and the person said

"Heh, maybe I should consider solo mining."

Is there a solo mining program that uses a GPU?  The only two I have found so far only do CPU mining.
Thanks,
Sam