The ATI 110619a-121104E file doesn't include a 11.7 video driver for OSs other than Windows 7. It does have a new AMD APP SDK, version 2.5.684.24. The package also installs drivers for ATI TV Wonder 600 USB and Hydravision (WTF?), so if you want to try out the new SDK, be sure to do a custom install and uncheck the other stuff.

That being said, the new SDK makes no difference for me. I've ran 10.11 and 11.6 drivers on 2.4 and 2.5 SDK with identical benchmarks on all in a very repeatable setup. However your patch does make a difference! The improvement on my overclocked 5830 (1070/392, WinXPsp3 stripped, Sempron 2.7ghz):

Before: 340.21 Mhash/s
After: 341.59 Mhash/s
Improvement: 0.41%

Update: Total accept/reject rate for three miners running this kernel: 11644/253 = 97.9% efficiency, no change there.

2011-07-01 is 25% slower on nvidia in OpenCL.

figure out how to print more of them...

You can set up a scheduled task to run the miner. Set the task to run every few hours to be sure that the miner stays up.
If you have the scheduled task use a different user account, you won't have to see the miner running on your desktop.

Get an Antec Earthwatts 650: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=163
or for two cards, an Antec Earthwatts 750 (four pcie power connectors).

Look on that jonnyguru.com site and you will see a lot of power supplies like Cooler Master and Thermaltake will just die when asked to actually deliver their rated power.

Cut a hole in the side of your case and put in a 200mm fan blowing on all the cards.

All pools share that philosophy. People pool up so they can get more regular payments, the amount you mine is purely based on how fast your video card is. No pools have any religious or other purpose that I've seen.

Uh, AC WILL increase your mining costs!

You just got some loose change that fell out of my wallet!

Another thing gone is the megachart where you could zoom in: https://mtgox.com/trade/megaChart

Currently it takes 26.1x as much hashing to mine BTC as namecoin, but you can mine 1 BTC and buy 33 namecoins outright. The exchange rate is wrong, which is interesting because namecoin actually does something, you can buy domain names with your namecoins as well as it being a virtual currency.

The difficulty is a real problem for namecoin now, so many people mined during the last 2000 blocks and then quit that mining activity is about 25% of what the target is set for. Now instead of six blocks an hour, it is closer to one, and that means it can take several hours to get just two confirmations on a transaction. http://explorer.dot-bit.org/.

At the current rate of hashing, it might take six weeks or more instead of the expected two weeks to reset the difficulty.

Namecoin needs more permanent miners instead of opportunists. With it's low hashing right now, one of the top five pools or a bad actor with similar cpu power could point at namecoin for 24 hours, kill this 2000 blocks and the next 2000 blocks, and set the difficulty so high that it will be way hard to mine (let alone that with >51% cpu they could reseed and confirm a block that wipes all the existing domains and funds, and gives them 2^31 coins). Transactions would take days for a confirmation, and the difficulty would take a year of hashing to reset again.

The pool is down, it will probably be until the morning US time for a restart.

Tell that to my mom.

It would have been better to have multiplied the initial value of bitcoins by 10^8 or more, so we would have no decimal places instead of .00000001. Bitcoins client software could still be re-denominated in the future so the satoshi is the new standard BTC unit. Huge integers are a better option than miniscule fractions; the populace understands billions more than it understands picos:

I think difficulty will level off at the next recalculation, and it will probably take near 14 days to get there. Potential miners are already cancelling their video card orders or trying to return or restock their hardware bought in the past week. We've learned that the prices on exchanges don't have to always go higher. In the next month ATI won't sell more Radeon HD GPUs than have ever been made. It will take a big bump in the exchange rates for people to go gung ho in buying new mining hardware again.

I'm done watching, but thanks for letting me test out sending money! If anyone else is charitable, free money is a good way to help noobs know they have everything working!

It will provide a non-centralized DNS service that can't be taken down. Good for sites where the government might steal the domain name, like torrent/streaming sites. The problem is that it won't take you where you expect due to squatters (like 4chan.bit takes you to a minecraft site), and that to use it, you have to install a custom DNS server on your machine, so it won't work on any ol' machine without a lot of work. You can get a list of all the registered sites here: http://namecoin.bitcoin-contact.org/q/domainlist.txt, and you can go to the .bit sites through here: http://namecoin.us/

CUDA is the proprietary language for programming nVidia GPU stream processors. The last time I tried a CUDA miner, it was slower than OpenCL (which is the open language that works on both nVidia and ATI GPUs). Neither applies for CPU.

Both should pay about the same, one just pays continuously, and one pays out every few hours when a block is solved. CPU mining, however, is just a waste of your electricity at the current difficulty.

http://bitcoin.sipa.be/

and

http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty

Hey, I can't give a whole 15 cents worth of BTC to everybody !