Come on people, deposit some more!

Do you know offhand what versions of glibc and libstd++ that platform has? You can tell by looking in /lib and /usr/lib for files like "libc-2.14.so" or "libstdc++.so.5.0.7".

./bitcoind: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by ./bitcoind)
./bitcoind: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by ./bitcoind)

1. sequentially.  AFAIK, they just increment the extranonce field in the generation transaction for each getwork reply, then the miner brutes their way through the nonce until it rolls over (4.2-ish billion hashes), then requests new work, rinse and repeat until someone finds a block, then start over with a new set of transactions.

2. practically impossible, as the payout address for the generation transaction would be different.  two users in the same pool also would never receive the same work (barring a bug in the pool server software), as it's sequential.

That's just the thing, they AREN'T using the same scan sequence to find the block. Each miner is given a place to start their search, and the miners use a "nonce" (incremental field sorta) to scan.  Like the pool might say, "ok joe you start at 537165100000" so joe's miner scans 537165100000, 537165100001, 537165100002, 537165100003, 537165100004, 537165100005, etc. While a different miner is given a completely different starting point, and increments it from there via the nonce.

It's like each miner is given a stack of lottery tickets with half the numbers filled in. The miner writes in the remaining numbers starting from zeroes and going up, until it finds the winning ticket. Since the winning ticket is totally random, it doesn't guarantee a faster miner to always win, it just increases his chances. He can go through 100 tickets an hour while you may be able to go through only 10 tickets an hour. But the first ticket you check could be the winning ticket, so even the smallest pools, heck even the smallest SOLO miners, have a "chance" to win -- it's just much smaller than the chances of a large pool winning, because they can check tickets so much faster than the individuals or the smaller pools.

If you solo mine with 1 video card, it will on average with the current difficulty take you months or longer (depending on the card) to find a winning block. However, it is possible that you find a winning block on your first day. But it is very unlikely. In fact, in a situation where your hashing power compared to the total network hashing power is so low (like solo mining on 1 gpu right now), that if the estimated time to find a block is so long (weeks or months or more), the difficulty will go up before you ever find a block, pushing out the date that you are rewarded even further. Remember difficulty is adjusted approximately every 2 weeks.

Thus, people join pools, because when the pool finds a winning block everyone that contributed gets a portion. If you use one of the largest pools, you can get a small reward every hour or even every few minutes. So instead of it taking you 500 days to generate a winning block yourself and getting 50 btc, you simply join a small pool and get 0.1 btc once a day. Or join a large pool and get 0.004 every hour (0.1 btc / 24 hours).

It makes little difference, the math works out the same, whatever your hashing power is that is your hashing power. Whether you join a small pool or a large pool or solo mine just changes the FREQUENCY of your reward, not the amount (excluding pool fees and such, of course).

Engh, its 39.99 right now. Someone just give me a quote, Ill send coin. We all be happy.

You would think that they would bundle the expansions with the current release.

Original Game: $19.99
Burning Crusade: $12.49
Wrath of the Lich King: $19.99
Cataclysm: $39.99

Now these are all retail prices but at $90+ for $35 in BTC, if it does indeed have all the expansions is a good deal.  But honestly, couldn't you buy the original game then just add in Cataclysm and thus get a level 85 without buying the other 2?

Thus my original question was valid.

will round 4 continue or will you stop it?

How do i update my bitcoin client, im running windows and have got the zip, and where is the wallet.dat file??

C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application data\Bitcoin (XP)
C:\Users\YourUserName\Appdata\Roaming\Bitcoin (Vista and 7)

I didn't see it spin at all. It just suddenly switched to a new position, and the number shown on the wheel didn't match the one announced in the chat. (Browser: Firefox 3.6.17).