Seems restarting bitcoins does, but don't know the shortcut (if there is one).

Yes, liquid cooling would be overboard. lol
Not my expertise, but I was thinking more along the lines of better heat sink, better fan(s).
However, in TomTomBC's case,  I would just say stick with 50% since it's more for fun/research.

On a dual core no, might actually make it worse. lol
Don't recommend running 100% for extended periods without proper cooling.

Congrats!
Apart from a new computer, not much can be done.
You can try changing the "-t 1" in the .bat file to "-t 2".
Your CPU is being used to do the hashes, and changing the above will make your CPU work harder (if it's not 100% already, depending on your CPU).

Edit: And yes, high processing programs can effect it. How much depends on your CPU. Just browsing the web and word processing though really shouldn't.

Glad it worked! (It does indeed seems to have)

It will take a while, how pool mining works is by shares.
With the miner you are using it will every so often pop up with

Date Time Accepted (where date and time is the date and time it popped up)

When you get an accepted message, then you have successfully added a share to your account.

If you are running a proportional worker (settings in your deepbit account) then you wont see anything until a block is found by the group. Which it seems to be between 5-20 hours or so.

If you use PPS (Pay Per Share) When ever you get a share accepted, your deepbit account will add some small amount.

At the end of the day (server time) your deepbit account will transfer to your wallet you used.

Edit: ^Yeah that, lol

Edit 2: At your speed, it can take some time for you to see anything. It's very random, so you might get it 5 times in 10 minutes, or 1 in a couple hours. Just depends on your luck really.

Edit 3: If you haven't yet, hit up https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ to get 0.05 BTC to start off with!

For the one theGECK posted:

In the folder where your miner is make a new text file by right clicking in the folder, going to new, text document.
Open the text document and type:
bitcoin-miner.exe -o http://deepbit.net:8332 -u email -p password -t 1
where email and password is your email and password you used for deepbit.
In the text file, go to file, save as, and name it bitminer.bat.
Make sure you select "all files" instead of "text document" on the drop down menu.
Close the text editor.
Double click on the .bat file.

That should work.


And no, as long as you are not doing your own mining, you don't need to have it open.

With your formula and his first mentioned rate of 1Mh/s that would be (1 * 30 * .025) = .75 BTC. So I wasn't far off saying Over a month.  


Same here, cryptology is a hobby of mine, so when I first heard of "cryptocurrency", I was sold.


You will need to pass it parameters. Easiest way I found was a batch file.

In a batch file (normal text file with extension .bat)
Add something like this:

cd "folder where program is"   [Example: "C:\BitCoinMiner\"]
minername.exe --url http://deepbit.net:8332 --username = "email" --password = "password"


Username and password will depend on the miner you use.

Edit: Actually all the parameters will depend on what miner you are using.

Edit 2:

Assuming you are using the one theGECK linked use:
bitcoin-miner.exe -o http://deepbit.net:8332 -u email -p password -t 1

Recommend the -t 1 so you don't over heat. lol

The technology has actually improved quite a bit and usually don't take up to much room (depending on requirements). The cost however are prohibiting for most people. Think last I checked it was 10-25k USD depending, again, on requirements.

Even a small panel can at least offset costs enough to make mining less expensive.

Assuming you meant 1000kh/s (1Mh/s), even in a pool I wouldn't expect to much. A full bit coin will probably take over a month (with fairly constant mining).

There is the possibility of a mining pool.
Making about .20 BTC/day myself just off idle laptop and desktop time.

Good point.

Oh well, I'll stick with PPS because I like quick feedback. lol

I might be wrong, but as far as I can tell, when you use proportional, the shares you made with proportional stay proportional. Same with PPS.

In the year 2011.

Checking block explorer shows it's true, so yup, awesome. 

Port: 8333
From: http://www.bitcoin.org/faq

Currently making about .15 BTC a day with 8.6Mhash/s of GPU and 1.5Mhash/s CPU during my laptops idle time with Deepbit Mining Pool.

It's going to help pay for a few chips for my robot I'm making so worth it since I'm not paying for electricity.

Posting to say thanks for the pool, got my first .14 BTC!
Not much but it's a start, lol.