My miner is more travelled than me, it is on a 7 day Europe - North America tour.

Edit: I hope it doesn't come to me all covered in rainbows after 4 days in Montreal.

Oh I just pulled that conclusion out of my ass.
But I have since done some calculations. I think you most likely would have paid about 20 btc for a mercury (early July). Geniblock says it will only ever mine 14 btc, and right now btc are worth about $1000 for 6.

So I guess you only bought a mercury. If only we all had that power of foresight.

Can I still not use my hx850 or did knc fix that?

Wow just when I was starting to give up hope I wake up this morning to see 0.01 btc mined on my eligulus account.
Still says in progress. 239x paid the 19th of June.

What are the chances it would be the one that I bought?
So has knc stated not to use the hx850 or just bitcoinorama? I have heard rumours that he hasn't been getting his required amount of sleep and is under some stress, I would prefer to hear about this in a news announcement.

So is newegg easy going about returns of opened but unused merchandise?
Couldn't knc just put in some form of protection?

I would like to have a live Linux distro on CD with electrum or as armory or whatever on it.

I have no problem running a live CD, and actually use ubuntu as my primary OS. But every time I have tried to make a custom live ISO with a bitcoin client preinstalled, I have been twarted at some point usually after spending most of the day working on it.

For all the talk and uses for a custom live CD I have seen a few people offer their own custom 'distro' that included electrum or whatever, but I have never found a tutorial on how to make known (which seems a lot more secure).