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Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Introduce yourself :)
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on: November 30, 2011, 06:04:38 PM
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You all will start to love bitcoin. The forums themselves are rather addicting. Mining is so-so.
Only thing to do now is spend the the .0549 BTC burning a whole in my pocket. Plenty of ways to do that! I'm here, but I won't be troubling myself to gain posting privileges here, too much of a PITA for an at most mildly interesting internet sideshow like bitcoin. In any case 99% of the value proposition of this forum for me is met by reader access only. Thank you for providing this. Have a good week.
Fair enough. Mods-- whitelist this guy? |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Online Litecoin Miner - beta testers wanted!
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on: November 30, 2011, 04:42:44 PM
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That's another thing that is worth investigating. Of course at present every webpage loads its own miner, and that can be a problem if you have more than one page open. But... is it possible for an applet to detect the presence of other applets running?
Could it be done based on CPU usage? If CPU usage is above a certain level, don't start the miner. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Online Litecoin Miner - beta testers wanted!
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on: November 30, 2011, 02:57:52 PM
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Another question-- is this, or will it be, open-sourced?
Didn't read the thread, eh?  Yes, the source will be released soon. I skimmed it, but I must have missed that. Thanks. That would be nice, but sadly a standard way of getting battery level information in Java doesn't seem to exist. You may be able to get it on some phones, but I don't think an unsigned applet can get that kind of information when running on a laptop. I'm not a Java expert, but it would appear to be possible by interfacing with native OS APIs. For example, on Windows, use JNI or JNA to call native Windows API functions to monitor battery status. Native calls could also be investigated for Linux and OSX. Calling OS API functions from Java: JNA http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2389156/calling-win32-api-method-from-javaJNI http://www.atwistedweb.com/java/jni.htmlWindows Battery API functions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3154554/how-do-i-get-battery-information-in-windowshttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/233446/monitor-battery-charge-with-win32-apiI'm not saying it's easy or even possible at this point, but I think it warrants a bit more investigation. You also wouldn't want to mine if someone visits on a smartphone or some other low-powered device, but I guess the 2-core threshold will take care of that.
Not completely: dual-core mobile phones already exist. I will investigate, thank you for the suggestion! You're welcome. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Online Litecoin Miner - beta testers wanted!
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on: November 30, 2011, 02:46:51 PM
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I have done some research, and it looks like at present no mobile phone can run ordinary Java SE applets.
That would mean one less problem to deal with.
Can anyone confirm or refute this?
Of course the problem of laptops running on battery power still remains. I think the only satisfactory solution implies using cookies to remember users that have opted-out. My Javascript is a bit rusty, but if I remember correctly it shouldn't be too difficult to set these cookies client-side.
I am obviously talking about the first choice to start mining, not the page switch. When you first ask you also point out what they are doing (not hide it like a scammer) Your reply seems to directly imply that you don't ask - (since you didn't already have a cookie to remember their choice) - thus it sounds like you ARE stealing CPU cycles ... It should detect things like battery state and number of cpus, to offer reasonable defaults, or not even offer the option of running the miner. It's not even about whether you as the user or not. |
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Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] TyGrr Tech
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on: November 30, 2011, 07:12:26 AM
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Oh, sorry! I was referring to one possible reason for why Win7 was crashing. It could be corrupted memory. Try switching out the memory and see if it still happens, alternatively, try running the memory from this box in another box and see what happens.
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