I'm fairly new to this as well, but I use Mineco.in and NoFeeMining.com.   They are two new pools that just started recently.

Because I'm a Libertarian and figured if the Federal Reserve is allowed to make money illegally why can't I!

No biggie, not putting any actual money into their site, and the email I used is a junk mail address for me anyway.  I am more than willing to the risk that they spam my junk email folder to get .5 btc!

Is it supposed to be one @?

Registered.

Payment can be sent to: 1JVk7usxg1r8s3RhqVToQcn9adPXwDSHn3

Thanks!

I would love to see the total pool hashrate.

I've been cpu mining for about three weeks, and it has been useful just for me to see how it works, what gets done, and help me decide to possibly build a rig.  You won't get rich, for sure, but it is a useful learning experience.

If you are windows 7, it's 'hidden' in the appdata folder.  go to %appdata% and look in the bitcoin folder.

I don't know that it's the right way to do it, but i copy my wallet.dat to a flash drive, and delete the copy on my computer.  Then, whenever I need it, I can just copy the thumbdrive copy back to my computer, use it, copy it back to my thumbdrive when done, and delete the copy on my computer again.

I did not realize that, thanks!

LOL, I am still very new to this, to be sure.

Alright, just joined, trying it out!  Half of my super low mh/sec is now yours!

Wow, this pool has grown a great deal in the past day!!  And I have to believe we are close to finding our first block soon!! And I would love to be the one that gets lucky and finds it!! lol

Did you create a bitcoin.conf file?  That will store your username and password so that the miner can log into the client. (I think)

The appdata folder is hidden in Windows 7, but you can go to C:/users/yourname and then type /appdata in the menu bar and it will go to the folder.

Downloaded and love it!  Very basic, but certainly nice to have available!  Also like the converter, lets me know just how futile my mining has been!! lol

I really do like it, keep up the great work!

As far as number 5, you should try GUI-miner.  Very simple to setup and use.

I did, it worked fine.

I've been using GUI-Miner and I love it.  Very easy setup, and can run multiple miner's at once.  If you go to the mining section under miner software, you can find it.  I don't know about the WinXP, though.

HAHA, yea, I feel like I equate it to trying to get on the internet from my Commodore 64.  Not much happening!