Figured the same thing last week.

The BTC/LTC trade on BTC-e has been awesome. I'm mining Litecoins like crazy, and buying up cheap Bitcoins. Whether it's next week, or Autumn, the price will eventually go back up.

i'm in the process of exchanging out psu's.

hopefully someone will stop me before i do something stupid.  my Seasonic psu doesn't have all the exact same cord connectors that correspond with the Chinese Enermax.  i've mixed and matched all the possible cords and i'm about to end up plugging 2 pci-e connectors into the pcb of the avalon without the ground.  in other words, it's an 8 hole connector and i'm having to leave off 2 of the holes (b/c of the mismatching shapes) which i'm pretty sure is the ground.

please someone tell me if this is a big mistake as i'm about to reassemble everything and power it up.

Just want to report another successful flashing of the Jalapeño. My device had the earlier firmware on it. While running it with this version and the case all closed up, cgminer 3.2.1 was showing me this:

Then I opened it up, scraped off the old worn thermal pads, put some new Fujipoly 1.0mm thermal pads cut to size with an x-acto knife, modified the code that decommissions engine so that at least one valid nonce is returned(thanks to @ckolivas for that idea), modified the frequency index to 8, flashed the modded firmware, downloaded the 3.3.1 rev of cgminer, and let it operate with no case, and now cgminer 3.3.1 is showing me this:

2 extra engines operating, albeit with higher hardware error rate: from around 0.1% to 3.9%. Running cooler now too, but I think that has far less to do with properly installing a fresh pair of thermal pads, and more to do with operating with no case surrounding all that hot air.

It cost me a little over $100 in materials to perform this upgrade so it's kind of like that 2Gh/s bump BFL was offering, but clearly I got a little more bang for the buck and it was tons more fun. And woah, now I've got the firmware code to look over too.

@mmaniac, as you can see, I am also seeing voltage readings from cgminer around 3.95-4.00v. I don't know if that's good or bad, but at least you have company.

To anyone who might be misled by this post, those photos are not of a 500 GH/s BFL MiniRig.

  -  The first couple photos are of an early dev unit built with only a few boards and no control module.

  -  The second group of photos are of an FPGA mini rig prototype from 2011.

Yemen is apparently one of the freest, if not the freest, country where it comes to gun rights.  I found this video discussing the gun culture there.

I know very little about that part of the world and Yemen in particular.  I'm curious if anyone more familiar can tell me what effect the pervasiveness of weapons has on Yemeni society.  Do people there generally feel safer or freer because of the guns, as some advocates would predict?

Since I hear that Paypal just froze their account and refuses to accept payments for them anymore, investigation pending, I say never.

EDIT:

Note that Paypal seems to have just disappeared as a method of payment for chip orders from BFL.  BTC or direct bank transfers only.

Just curious -- would you be allowing yourself to be held accountable for any percentage of damages done during the process or would the risk lay 100% with the purchaser of your service?

Don't worry, BFL will catch up later with 2PH, so far they just warmed up