good news for who? Any one know what date the order went through?
sure hope my upgrade order went through first or it's game over! goodby every penny spent.
they need to shut down their pre-order system now or they will continue to screw a lot more people.
Bfl should adress how this will affect small purchases and be honest for once.

after a while when the difficulty is too great for the masses I wonder if these big buyers are going to be the only ones controlling all the miners.  Bfl selling orders that large goes against the whole vision of what the system was so pose to be. Very decentralized. I'm sure bfl isn't the only one with large orders. I'm a libertarian so I do support free market actios but here we go towards the centralization of mining.

I guess I can find the purchase date on BlockChain later. cant on the iPhone
the search box jumps around as new transactions go through.

received and hashing at 257 (Saturn)

received tracking this AM (oct/21)

order #36xx - in progress
paid July 21
mercury upgraded on August 16
USA

Cray is definitely using water cooling. I have a pic on my iPhone sent to me two weeks ago from a good friend who was a founding member of the Green Grid. Shows  their equipment with liquid cooling. his profession is data center cooling/power use and was in San Jose consulting on it.
useing Asetek liquid coolers. posting from an iPhone. may be I'll get around to posting it later.

http://www.asetek.com/#&panel1-3

 debateing an upgrade tonight or holding out for cointerra.

I have no problems updating. just this one step.

useing all equipment including raspbian from the tutorial.
I tried saterday night and Sunday morning.

I so pose the site could have been down for quite a while and will try again after work.

read somewhere a time out setting exists and is defaulted to 900 seconds
but my attempts timeout much quicker than that.



*Update:* problem resolved- I guess their site was down all weekend. worked right away this afternoon.
Now I have an error   input/output  when starting cgminer

perhaps because i don't have the lcd keypad kit connected yet. still waiting for it in mail.

hopping you gents can help out a total beginner using Linux.

I have tried the tutorial on adifruit but can't get cgminer to download.

whenever I put the line


wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/3.1/cgminer-3.1.1.tar.bz2

I get a message along the lines of: failed.  timed out
and it retries over and over continually timing our
after a few minutes each time

do I need to change a timeout setting and if so
could someone help me learn how?

thanks