I bid 5.25 BTC each for the 2 underperformers.

That sounds right.  I don't need the bracket screws.

If you can get that set together, minus the bracket screws, and mail them to me, my 0.1 BTC will be yours.

Yes, it can be a DHCP client and get its IP address that way.

I gave mine a static IP address on my network, outside of the DHCP range, so that I don't have to hunt for it if it gets assigned a different IP somehow.

If I wanted to get fancy I could give it a static assignment on the DHCP server, based on its MAC address.

Obvious COI is obvious.

To do the right thing, Josh either needs to step down from his BFL position, or fold this "Mining Company" idea.

He explicitly stated when he took the BFL position that he would not further expand his "mining footprint":

I believe Avalon is not a sASIC (hard copy), but rather is a "standard cell" ASIC.

Speaking of exploring new processors, I think it would be interesting to see how the upcoming Parallella platform does for Bitcoin mining (or Litecoin).  I don't expect it will be any kind of breakthrough performance, but it would still be interesting to try.

Be all that as it may, do you really have to make a thread about it?  Do you think the poor SOBs on the hook for 500 BTC or more do not realize the gravity of the situation?

I guess you're doing it for the lulz, eh?

I hadn't looked closely before.

Are those really plastic mats covering the carpet, with wheeled chairs on top of them, and metal-framed desks?

Wow.  When I was young I once worked in an office that was set up like this.  I got "bit" many times a day by powerful discharges, and they messed with the Mac II on the desk whenever they struck. (they would cause the floppy drive to spontaneously eject.)

As an Avalon Batch 1 and Batch 2 purchaser, I thank BFL for not sending network difficulty through the roof, which means more sweet mining for me.

As a prospective Avalon Batch 3 purchaser, I'm disappointed that BFL is not there with a product to compete with their high price point.

As a Bitcoiner, the reality of just one ASIC vendor left standing and holding a monopoly on the market worries me.

I don't understand why their problems with the "test rig" are blocking the entire project.

Why can't they have the assembly house put a few chips onto boards and test them that way?  Make up a Jalapeno board to test a single chip at a time.

Sure, they want to test all of the chips and bin them before placing them onto boards, but they should still be able to make progress in parallel by just slapping some on boards blindly and testing them that way...no?

They made such a big deal about "investing heavily in high speed production equipment" with their reflow oven purchase.  Time to put that investment to work?

I'm in the US, and DHL is always very fast for me, for receiving international shipments.

Once DHL has it, I would expect it to take no more than 3 business days, if you're in the US.  Other countries may vary.

FWIW, I paid 114 BTC for a batch 1 unit, and 75 BTC for batch 2.

It would be nice if there were a 10-chip ~2.8GH/s product available so smaller players could participate.

Imagine what an in-hand unit from batch 1 might go for...

A batch 2 pre-order sold for $20.6k:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181105056846

Is it a physical card, or a digital code?

Mine came with a regular US power cord.  The power cord pictured was not delivered to the US.

It's a regular ATX power supply.  Any IEC power cable will work.

I think you just login as "root", with no password.

Was that in "Batch 2 Wave 1", 03-Feb, or "Batch 2 Wave 2", some time later?

See the "cgminer" tabs?  Check those out.

Batch 2 used walletbit.  You could create an account and get a nice receipt you can view when you login, or you could "checkout as guest", which gave you nothing but a bitcoin address to blindly send 75 BTC off into.  No order number, no email, nothing.  Mind you both walletbit and the avalon webstore were unstable, and you were lucky to get pages to load.