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141  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: When and how did you find out about Bitcoin? on: May 27, 2011, 10:06:40 AM

Buddy shown it to me, but actually I think long ago bitcoin was mentioned in few security networks (anon networks) like the anonymous money (btw, which it is NOT)
142  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Uncensored list of Bitcoin sites on: May 27, 2011, 10:05:31 AM
Someone has to build a new "free" wiki/website ( like bitcoincharts ) only dedicated to trade website/services.
It should be somewhere out of japan/us and other country with the same problems.

You can be free only in TOR hidden page or on Freenet, all other pages can be censored eventually, "for your protection".
143  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: HOW much is electricity cost in your country? on: May 27, 2011, 09:36:52 AM
Around 0.12 usd/kWh in Poland
144  Other / Archival / Re: Pictures of your mining rigs! on: May 27, 2011, 09:35:34 AM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/batouzo/5764583760/in/set-72157626816303676/

Where do you guys upload photos to use them on this forum?
145  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Thinking about mining on: May 27, 2011, 02:01:39 AM
Yeah you didn't exactly dissuade me, I was considering it partially for an entertaining risk like gambling, but after running some numbers even though I'd be spending what I consider disposable income, it's just too risky of an investment, just because it's disposable doesn't mean I want to dispose it. Not just from the volatility of the price vs the USD but also from the probable ASIC and/or FPGA miners soon to be out. Thanks for the info though, best of luck.

FPGA miners seem to not be that dangerous from what ArtFortz written, and his ASIC's have rather long return-rate so not everyone can use that.
Still the risk seems to be high as large increase in exchange rate lured lots of miners...
146  Other / Off-topic / Re: I hate Windoze! on: May 26, 2011, 03:32:57 AM
I just got my bitcoin client working on my thumbdrive in a truly portable fashion, i.e. so that the windows bitcoin client wouldn't put the wallet.dat onto whatever windoze machine that I was using at the time, and then the windoze machine that I was using at work today had a hiccup of some kind while I had the bitcoin client open and my entire thumbdrive was corrupted.  69 BTC, gone.

Don't forget to back up your wallet.dat files, particularly if you use untrustworthy operating systems.

Shit happens...

Although this one may be actually not-windows "fault", perhaps just broken usb pen itself. As others said, boot up some linux livecd like "RIP linux" or even Ubuntu install cd in livecd mode,
copy blocks to image file and try to recover it.
147  Bitcoin / Mining / radeon5970 temperature 85C - repair? on: May 25, 2011, 10:17:05 AM
Hello, one of our radeon cards in cluster seems to overheat.
It has 87C and 79C temp of cores, while another card in same board (as well ventilated atc) has 75C.

Even when extra cooled, other cards drop even to 65C, and this damaged still has 85C!

What can be wrong?

We think of opening the card and e.g. again applying thermal paste, this should be easy? Something to watch out for when doing that on reference r5970? (don't want to break it).
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