If you mean using air conditioning to remove heat that makes it a lot more expensive. A residential AC cooled by outside air wastes about 40% of the input energy, so you need about 1.67 Watts for the AC to remove 1 W of heat from the miner. That means the total electricity cost for mining will be 167% higher.

A slightly overclocked 5970 will use almost exactly 1 week (168 hrs) for one block with the current difficulty. I doubt it will use as much as 600W, though. Perhaps you were thinking of a dual card setup?

Could be a hardware issue. I've had problems with a Linux installation that would restart randomly shortly after booting. Turned out the memory mappings got confused when I disabled some features in the BIOS, like USB and legacy ports. It could also be a bad X configuration. That can make the computer look like it restarts over and over.

It would be nice if there was an estimate for when the next change in difficulty will be. I know you're short on space, but displaying it when hovering over the difficulty/estimated text would be enough. Getting an update on the estimate is almost always my reason for visiting your site.

That is a made up rule, just like the rule of states. It only works if everybody agrees with it, and even then there would need to be regulations about how much land you can claim for a particular amount of labor, how to measure labor, someone to solve disputes, and so on.

Interesting. I still think it would be better to take over an already recognised country, though. I think for instance that transfering money to or from an entity that does not consider itself to belong to country will be difficult at best.

Technically they're only forcing their will on those who freely choose to live under US rule. Since all of the world is already spoken for, the only realistic way to get properly free land would be to pool together and buy a small island country or similar. There are way too few liberalists in the world for there to be any chance of changing a rich country, and whining about things that will never happen is just a waste of time.

Higher clock rate.

Spending more money to mine than it would cost to just buy the bitcoins is hardly a good way to protect your money.

If the difficulty level stopped at the next estimated difficulty level (78 000) and the exchange rate stays the same, you would need 5-6 x 5970. Unfortunately it probably won't. My guess is that you need at least 20 x 5970 to get $10 000 this year after electricity but excluding initial costs.

I suppose it's possible to get those prices if you live in London or New York or similar, but it's not anywhere in my country. As I said I haven't bought any gold, but it's not for the lack of trying.

You'll never get spot price, and there are very few places that will pay more than 90% of the gold value. It'll probably be closer to 70 or 80%. Same thing if you want to buy, most dealers will take a hefty profit. This is the main reason why I don't buy gold. Your best bet it to find another person to trade with, but then you have to find a way to make sure it's real and as pure as advertised.

Just remember that if you have to use air conditioning the electricity costs for mining will more than double.

I get the same error when trying to downgrade from 2.2 to 2.1.

Have you tried following the instructions in the installation notes?

• Uninstall any prior ATI Stream SDK you have on your system. To do this:
a. Reboot.
b. Use Programs and Features (Windows Vista or 7) or Add/Remove Programs (Windows XP) to uninstall the prior SDK files.
c. Manually remove any ATI Stream directories under My Documents and under Program Files or Program Files (x86).
d. Search for, and remove, all atiocl* files on the system.

• If a pre-lease version of SDK 2.3 is on your system, follow the uninstall directions above; then, ensure that the previously generated temporary folder is also deleted. Paths to this folder are:
XP 32-bit: C:\ATI\SUPPORT\streamsdk_2-3_xp32
XP 64-bit: C:\ATI\SUPPORT\streamsdk_2-3_xp64
Vista and Win7 32-bit: C:\ATI\SUPPORT\streamsdk_2-3_win732
Vista and Win7 64-bit: C:\ATI\SUPPORT\streamsdk_2-3_win764

Or just make a shortcut to the exe file and add the parameters you need in properties.

Just installed it, and now I have a bunch of feature requests.
- A summary page which shows all the miners with a stop/start button and the accepted/stale statistics.
- Stale/invalid the last 30 minutes (so I can switch to a different pool if the one I'm using seems broken).
- An option to have it automatically switch to a different pool if there have been too many stale/invalid the last 30 mins.
- Statistics which shows how much time has been used doing nothing because of server down time.

It seems really nice already, though. Perhaps I'll finally stop wasting time looking at the miner window now that I can minimize it to tray. I'll donate if I continue using it.

Youtube works for me, but I haven't done anything in particular to make it work. I'm using Opera 11 and 64 bit W7. It works both with and without HW acceleration, but it seems a bit less jumpy without.

VLC seems to work with the video files I've tried. I've disabled all features using hardware because I have experienced freezes before.

It's a technological development created by libertarians and objectivists, and nobody else would have started to use it if it wasn't for this political branch. I think that makes it part of a political movement.

Check if it's possible to disable hardware acceleration in the players you use.