When it says Block 1 found, Block 2 found, Block 3 found, etc, it means the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shares since you started the miner. 

At slush's pool, when you submit valid shares, your score goes up.

So, it appears to be working fine.  If you have other questions, please ask them explicitly as it is not clear what you are asking.

The exchange rate shows up as 0 dollars because the website appears to be broken.  Check http://bitcoincharts.com for current exchange rates.

Mining is essentially doing lots fo calculations per second hoping to get lucky and find a winning result.  The p2p network adjusts how difficult it is to find the winning result based on how many people are all simultaneously doing calculations.  The idea is to keep the rate of winners (i.e. blocks being found) to be about 1 per 10 minutes across the entirety of the p2p network.  As more people start mining, the difficulty goes up.  As people quit mining, the difficulty goes down.

Yes, at 80 MH/s, you'll make only approx 16 BTC over the course of a year (assuming the difficulty doesn't change during that year--which is not a realistic assumption).

People who are making 16 BTC per day have a lot more hardware than you.  Dozens of machines each with several GPUs running in parallel. 

Bitcoin mining is not a system to make loads of free money with little/no investment (at least not anymore).  Pretty much any hardware purchase is going to take 6 months or more to pay itself off at this point.

As far as I can tell, the patch to phoenix is a patch against an very out of date version of phoenix (forked from phoenix sometime back in July).  "sleep" (the function for delaying) does not appear anywhere in the current version of phoenix or the aldyen fork of phoenix.  I see no other indication that there is a delay after a long poll, either.  I don't know what version is on bamt, but the latest official version of phoenix appears fine.

My thought is that, given that most large pools have been targets of DoS or DDoS attacks at some point, they would want to minimize attack surface.  Not accepting incoming connections doesn't mean that you can't have connections.  It just means that you have to initiate them all, which is easy enough

Most of the large pools don't publish their bitcoind node ip addresses and I would expect they also don't accept inbound connections.

It really only matters how quickly the pool node can send and receive from the other top 6 pool nodes.  If they could connect directly to each other, then you only need 5 (you + the other top 6) to minimize invalid blocks.

If you can't manually force persistent connections to the top mining pools (which you probably can't), then you want many more connections so that you maximize the chances that you accidentally are connected to a node that is "close" to the other pools.  In an effort to increase your odds of being close or directly connected to a pool node, you could possibly patch bitcoind to prefer nodes "near" the IP address space of where you suspect pool nodes probably are.

But I suspect if you have too many connections, I'd imagine the cost of communicating with hundreds or thousands of nodes may hurt you enough to negate the value of being connected to many nodes.

Remember that Deepbit has 10% fees on their PPS pool.  No one who cares about maximizing profit (i.e. the sort of person who would consider using coinotron auto) would use deepbit PPS these days.  If he had submitted those shares to any of the 0% fee PPS variant (SMPPS, etc) pools, he would have gained:  

(62111 shares * 0.00002847 BTC) = 1.76878326 BTC

There goes your advantage.  Coinotron Auto-mode was only 2.7% better and only if you were Johnny-on-the-spot withdrawing and exchanging coins (which requires either some significant automation or staying away 24/7 to constantly process coins as they mature).

Your Earned PPS turns into Paid PPS when blocks reach 120 confirmations (according to your "next payout amount"), not when they are initially found.  Not sure if that is for sure what is going on for you, but wanted to clarify expectations.

Nothing personal, but that is a pretty ignorant statement.  Proportional Pools are fatally flawed because they will be exploited by pool hoppers.   Straight-up PPS pools are fatally flawed because they will eventually go bankrupt unless they have massive fees.

The alternatives are not gimmicks.  They are the only reasonable options that don't screw over miners and don't screw over pool operators.

Although I am happy at my current SMPPS pools, I thank urstroyer for setting this up and I hope it is successful.

It's just you:  http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/scexchange.bitparking.com

As others have said, the exchange is closed, so you can't sell your solidcoins there.  You can only withdrawal any that you may have previously deposited or purchased.

Or http://allchains.info/

They are all a mess currently.

The war is over.  Solidcoin lost.  Time to move on.

You do realize that copyright and licenses only protect against actual copying of the source code.  Other projects are still free to a) understand the conceptual algorithm changes you made and b) implement the same changes themselves with slightly different code.  If you want to protect against that, you'll need to get a Patent (good luck with that).

Yes

I like the --disable-redraw in concept, but it causes a new line with status information to be written every second (which is just as much noise in a log file).  Any chance to add an additional option to control how often a status line is output when in --disable-redraw mode? 

I insert plastic motherboard standoffs in the holes on the motherboard and then set it all on a sheet of mdf (wood) that covers the tabletop (which is vinyl and might melt).  The standoffs keep the actual circuit board from touching the sheet of wood.

These are the standoffs I use:  http://amzn.com/B00032Q31A

The MDF was something like $3 at home depot.

0.094% stales for me since I switched last night.  I'm fine if everyone else stays on the other server

Excel 2011 for Mac can not

Great spreadsheet!  Thanks!

Here is an Excel version for anyone that doesn't have OpenOffice.  Note, the original OpenOffice version does open in Google Docs as well for anyone that doesn't have either.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1169716/MiningProfitMatrix.xls