With   sudo DISPLAY=:0 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get temperature 0"
Temperature for thermal controller 0 is 37.000000
With   sudo DISPLAY=:0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get temperature 0"
ati_pplib_cmd: Unable to open display `:0.1'.
aticonfig: parsing the command-line failed.

I have an M4A89GTD mobo and two AMD Sapphire 5830s.

aticonfig --list-adapters
* 0. 01:00.0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series 
  1. 02:00.0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series 


aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-gettemperature
Adapter 0 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series 
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 37.00 C
aticonfig --adapter=1 --od-gettemperature
ERROR - Get temperature failed for Adapter 1 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

I switched the slots for the 5830s and get the same thing. I The drivers don't seem to be working. I've re-installed Ubuntu a couple times and get the same error.

I'm using this as a first time Linux user. Thanks for doing this, I'll donate if I get it to work!

I agree wholeheartedly. Bitcoin is the Google of finance. Lead, follow, or get out of the way!

There is no reason that governments would not use bitcoins as long as they required people to register a public ID for taxation purposes and use them appropriately.

I have one, but I'm hoarding all the beastcoins until they are all mine muhuhaha!

regarding: http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea/answer/Adam-Cohen-2


"Fortunately, it's such an obviously flawed system that it will probably never grow to a point where it causes any ill-effects,or even impact, to world economies."
Obviously 

"No matter what your reasoning, Bitcoin is a ridiculous idea that will not accomplish what you want."
Or maybe it will.

This guy clearly believes he is an expert about economics; yet he is writing a blog about a currency, not an economy. His argument about a "central bank" fails. Where is this "central bank?" America? Germany? Switzerland? The fact is, there is no workable banking system anywhere. That's why the world is financed by dodgy credit default swaps, derivatives, naked short-sells, and other financial jalopies. Bitcoin may not be perfect, but as long as it is reasonably secure, convenient, and available, it will thrive. The naysayers and demagogs can ad hominem and make all the strawmen arguments they want, but unless they show good evidence that bitcoin fails after two years, they can get get in the game or get out of the way.

BTW, I have only known about BTC a couple weeks and have not yet seen any valid case presented against BTC. I am open to evidence, not just opinion.

Bitcoin is the ninja currency.

Hoarding was an unintended consequence of GPU mining that raised the difficulty factor against CPU mining. Unless more people get GPUs, the majority of bitcoins will be in the hands of a few people. Bitcoin will die unless they are spread around. It is up to the bitcoin holders to develop a means of getting bitcoins into the hands of others or all interest will be lost in them. No one else cares enough about bitcoins to do this for them.

The Global Village Construction Kit is an amazing idea along with Reprap.

If FB users spent less time farming pretend livestock and joined in farming for bitcoins, there would be more interest. Maybe a bitcoing game is in the works. Zynga are you listening?

I suspect Satoshi and others did not expect mining to be conducted on GPUs. With miners each virtually owning supercomputers with regards to bitcoin, far fewer miners are needed to drive the difficulty way up. I think this is causing two issues. First, because mining requires fewer people to drive the difficulty up, bitcoins are distributed to fewer miners. Second, because fewer miners receive bitcoins, fewer people are able to get them the easy way. Third, with fewer people receiving bitcoins directly and the bulk of them going to so few, they are seen as objects of curiosity, and not objects of opportunity by would be cpu miners.

There needs to be a solution to get bitcoins in the hands of more people. Even small amounts of bitcoins spread around would create awareness and usefuless for them. I realize that they can be exchanged by financial institutions, but it is too inconvenient for most people to trade them that way. First, we need easier ways to spend bitcoins. I think namecoin can be used as a  vehicle to create virtual and anonymous documentation (such as invoices and receipts) for bitcoin commerce. Second, we need a safe wallet solution for people to store them. Third, we need smartphone apps created that can be used on even the most basic phone OS with internet access. These conditions can help spread the usefulness of bitcoins. Am I missing anything?

Bitcoin isn't dependent on anyone caring. The website is a courtesy of developers/fans. Having said that, it would be nice if someone put some serious time and effort into a good website for laymen.

If they have the power to do that, they can make their own damn bitcoins. meh.

Use whatever labels you want. What are you afraid of? Computers run your car, your power grid, your traffic lights, and nearly everything else. We are dependent on computers. Monitoring and distributing resources with maximum efficiency requires computers. I don't know why you think an AI would be a dictator, it would just be a machine. If Karl Marx had know about computers he may have written an entirely different book. Cornucopian communism? I'm not sure what that means, but in the context of a superior AI, it seems it would work pretty well.

A false analogy is not an argument that merits response. Computers calculate far faster than humans already. It's just a matter of making the machines more complex. If you can't make logical arguments, no wonder you don't understand RBE.

Science only seeks to explore things in nature that we observe. Intelligence is not beyond our understanding. It doesn't require proof, only good evidence. Humans are nothing more than complex machines. Scientists have already created artificial life. AI is inevitable, if not imminent, and superior intelligence is quite plausible.

Well, yeah. AI will be a reality. We will be able to create an intelligence that makes humans compare to microbes. After all, we evolved from microbes. I'm not an apologist for the Zeitgeist films, they are simply an introduction. It takes thousands of hours of education to understand the premise of how an RBE would work. It takes pure faith to believe that any currency, whether finite or fiat, to believe that they have causal relationship with scientific progress.

VP isn't about a top or bottom solution. It's just Maslow's Hierarchy with AI and robots. It's not here yet, but when AI arrives, what will your gold, virtual or real be worth?

Unless your parents charged you room and board as child, it's pretty much like that. It's people helping each other as best they can, because they can. Not hard to understand.