fine work there detective.  explain to me how to do that remotely via ssh?  

I like the power strip idea, but that involves money.  and with my timing on becoming a miner i need to save every cost i can.  
ESXi seems just as likely to lockup if the cards are what causes the lock but i'm not sure.  I'm not ESXi expert but i do know that involves a lot of reconfiguring.  I would like to avoid that as well, but thanks for the suggestion.

The CD-ROM thing.... WTF?  lol... that is the craziest thing i've ever heard.
these miners don't even have cd-roms anyways

this is more what I was refering to
http://smshaker.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/linux-force-rebootshutdown/


however when I try to do the first line it returns a permission denied error.

I don't really want to mess with the permissions of that file without knowing what i'm doing.  can someone explain to me what to do?

What would be the best/easiest way to issue a hard reboot if the kernel appears to be having I/O errors or other issue?

FYI: port forwarding 22 from the internet to port 22 on your machine directly exposes that port.  This is not a very safe way to do it as some people will continually try to get in once they find that port is open.  (and it's very easy to find if you stick to the default port) try port forwarding a different port number that they are not likely to guess ssh'ing to.

ie:  port forward 4022 to 22.

then when you are outside your network use port 4022 when using putty or whatever ssh program.  (your router will translate it to 22 so your computer knows to receive it)

another way is to use a VPN.  that is what I use.  in which case you can act as if your are locally connected to your network from anywhere with internet access.  It has it's own security flaws, but whatever, the worst a hacker can to do my miner network is reconfigure them to mine for them, in which case I just reinstall the os and more security.  No coins on my network.

if your router is flashable with DD-WRT you can essentially turn it into a way more functional device.  Mind you the navigation and settings are a little more advanced, but nothing a miner can't figure out! (lots of documentation on their website)

in which case you can setup open-vpn on your router. 

so you shutdown a still profitable 26Ghps farm for fear of something that could possibly happen, but probably wont?

makes sense 

my 4x) 5830 rig gets < 1% stales

my 2 4x) 6870 rigs get ~2%

all three rigs on btcguild

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11746.0

this guide is pretty useful for over/underclocking.

i believe the point of start_mining was suppose to make things easier, by requiring less input.
ie: url was stumping me because I would enter the whole url http://btcguild.com:8332/  when really i just needed to enter btcguild.com

if that helps

I screwed up actually cd /opt/miners/pheonix otherwise you'll get file not found or something


./phoenix.py -u http://worker_name:worker_pass@useast.btcguild.com:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1

i've tried xrdp and tightvncserver

can't get them to work though

never had so much trouble using vnc or rdp before

EDIT:  Bah!! figured it out.  have to put ipaddress:1

however.... this shows me a completely new desktop session.  welcome message/agreement, etc.
when i try to launch my start script all the miners launch, then close before displaying anything and then in the console that i launched from it says...

Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display 1.0


EDIT2:  looks like x11rdp is what I want.  says I can connect to display0.  
will report back after testing

update:  x11vnc works great.  the best part is it doesn't really disturb the performance of the miner like i thought it might, but it uses all cpu which is fine by me.

cd ..
cd ..
cd /opt/miners

then use this
https://www.btcguild.com/how_to_connect.php

just keep in mind that is specific for BTCguild, if you are using a different pool or solo mining(which i highly doubt) then switch url for appropriate one
don't forget your paramaters at the end.

also instead of -k poclbm you can try -k phatk
sometimes it works a little better, thats what i use

why can't i find that?  i must be losing it....

in synaptic package manager?

Can you post instruction on running/configuring vnc server?  you say it comes installed? 

Would it be better than to donate 2.5% if I am receiving ~2% stales shares?
Rather than donate 0% and receive 2% stales?

so i've got autostart working nicely now.  Thanks.

Apparently I do not understand screen so I am going to avoid that for now.  once I ssh into the box and changed dir to home/user/ and did screen -ls I could see a session (connected)
then i ran the command to disconnect, and it would show disconnected.  but then I couldn't get connected to it.  just said "connect from inside screen?"
so i'm definately doing something wrong.
on the actual machine it works fine, just can't do it through ssh for somereason.

so i tried install xrdp and I can connect to it from windows RDP client.  but then it gives me some another login screen for xrdp.  i change it to sesman-x11rdp and use user/live and it says connected but then crashes.

i can't figure out vnc either, i thought it was already loaded.  do i need to configure it or launch the server somehow?

thanks in advance

In that case thank you very much.  And.... RELEASE RELEASE RELEASE!!  

Sent ya a little coinage.  I know it's not much, but hopefully it helps, and hopefully I will be able to donate more in the future.
edit: Its coming from tradehill so might take a little to get to ya.

Too late to make a request?

I do not like the transparent root/lxterminals I usually change my background to a black one so I can read everything easily, but if I reboot it doesn't save.  So far my easiest solution is to save the background pic to desktop and set it each time, but that is annoying.  I noticed if i changed to one of the other included backgrounds it also wouldn't save.

is there a way to make it save background changes?  Or disable transparency on the terminals?

I disagree that Angelus is trolling.  

Although we have all heard it 1000 times, I believe this to be useful information.  But apparently some people need to hear it again.

If you don't like it, your probably mad for other reasons


I disagree. If you put in .25 (or better yet, a number that would equal the remainder of the difficulty period) in the month field.


Then you have approximately what you can expect for the remainder of the difficulty period (BTC earned, not USD value)
Big Difference.

Then adjust difficulty to next anticipated level and calculate again for 8 or 9 days worth.  Then sum it up.  I feel that is the only way they can be used.  and its only for the amount of USD created, not the value.

I disagree that Angelus is trolling.  

Although we have all heard it 1000 times, I believe this to be useful information.  But apparently some people need to hear it again.

If you don't like it, your probably mad for other reasons


disagree.

please yes

get it to the store, or cydia