I caved, installing MPBM and the new HV bitstream now, I want to go it a go.

I have been looking forward to this, Thank you Glasswalker, I've always liked your dedication to a stable bitstream.
Downloaded it, will take a look over it, but give it a while before installing to it has it's full support.
I've always used Cgminer, it's what I'm use to. Would like to give a bit of time, but hopefully cgminer will support your protocol soon.

Test it for stability first, sounds like Enterpoint (Yohan) is starting to putting fully working bitstreams into them for you.
Most of us posting here, did not get them in this state so we well use to having to update the bitstream firmware ourselves.

If it ends up being stable ask about the mak 200+ bitsteam or hashvoodoo if it is not stable.

Depends on how elaborate you are prepared to go:

For home installations of really expensive items that aren't on show I'm always a fan of the hidden room.
These are usually easy as hell to pull off in basements. Since the floor size is not always the same size as what is above it in old houses.

Half the room off with plasterboard and make a small door shaped hole in it's place. So you have a hidden and open portion of the space.
Place a really heavy bookcase or similar in front of said hole. I'd recommend, removing any "feet" on the bookcase and replace it with marble sized ball bearings to allow it to slide and move around abit.

Fit a A/C unit, big box freezer etc, anything old and clunky that makes a decent amount of noise in the open space, nearby to disguise the sound of the computer in the hidden space. That A/C unit could even help with all that extra heat.

Put a ton of stuff in the open space and make sure this fake wall is decorated, so it's fake-ness is not too easily noticed.

In the advent it is found, I do recommend bolting and chaining it to the floor, so at the least removing it from it's hidden room is difficult and time consuming.

... I could go on...

I know it's different, clearly you didn't read or understand what I said, or read more into it than what I said.
I merely gave advice on configuring his firewall, that is it. None of the stuff you mentioned.

Stephen did a decent explanation, with a small correction by myself on the black market afterwards.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60489.msg1203243#msg1203243

Put it this way, there is nearly always the potential for you to be hacked or get a virus, but you have to under the % chance of this happening and put it in context, just because there is a 0.0001% chance doesn't mean it's going to happen (numbers maybe made up but they wouldn't be far off for any tech savy user).

I've been on the web for over 24 years. Sure my computer has caught a virus or two, but my personal computer was never purposefully attacked or hacked into. Most of the virus' I got was when I was a child or I let someone else on the computer and they did something stupid and it got compromised because they downloaded something they shouldn't of done and yes all of these were windows machines.
Btw the few linux based PC's I've had and never to my knowledge had either a virus or been hacked into, I use the same level of protection on these as my servers.

I've owned a server, vps, shared hosting of some sorts for around 10 years, those have a nice big target on them, no virus' but do get hack attempts all the time. They were all Linux machines very public, since they are servers and host a few relatively popular websites.
Most hacking attempts are pretty basic, so it's easy to prevent with a properly setup firewall.

If you want to go towards server like protection against hacking attempts, that is what you need to look into how to setup your firewall. One method, limiting outside access by IP address to specific ports, anyone else, gets a denied instantly. Figure out what might need to access you from the outside, make note of it's IP address and put that on a white list. Don't add more than you need to.

So if blockexplorer is the only site you go to, make it so that port will only be open for that IP address of that site.
Same applies for electrum and it's blockchain servers and the ports it uses.

Linux really does not need the same sort of anti-virus protect as windows, so as long as you have something, that is usually enough.

Meni, was actually the one to revealed he was the scammer, Meni then asked Nefario to help fix a situation that Alberto would not.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93445.260

Not quiet sure what warrants it to be considered a blue market asset, but I'm sure someone will be interested in it.
I'm not seeing the big deal, am I missing something?

Not really the same thing, if you actually read up on the situation.

So where did Alberto agree to this?

The TOS probably does need to be clarified a bit better of the element surrounding how the niceties of the TOS don't apply to your account  info/data we have about you if you are suspect / proven of fraud.


I was not surprised Nefario shared the info/data I admit, after all, a lot of fraud has happened by those misusing his trading site. It's understandable he would be annoyed at them, as it damages his (and the companies) reputation as well.
However I am surprised his TOS didn't mention he could get away with doing that, when suspected or prove of fraud. So yes, [9.] probably should be expanded a bit to cover himself, if he's going to keep doing this.

I'm not much for legal jargon, so meh, scammers have it coming for them really.

Guess the only thing I was hoping to hear is my parole office knows all what I'm doing in this new business, and is fine with the business or something to that extent, with some proof we could believe. Fact is regardless of the story, he does still have rules he is suppose to be abiding by, right? With how he operating a business right now, doing pre-orders on a large scale for products would count as going against those.

I could go into, not all of his story adds up, I imagine since he left some important details out, but that has already been discussed.

I am admit I've spoken out against BFL a few times, Mostly on the aspect of poor factual errors and shipping times, promises broken etc. But they still delivered in large amounts eventually so they weren't all bad.
I didn't suspect it as a scam, maybe a poorly run company as any could be as first getting into the business it is understandable they wouldn't get it right first time round.

This story has not made feel any better about BFL as a company.

Pretty sure the CM1 uses a bigger fan and better heatsinks though...

Assuming you are pointing at the right usbports...

First do a power cycle, and then reconnect stuff and use the modprobe command, try again, did that help?
If not then try reflashing the board. Try again after doing the above.

That is worrying.

The drama continues...

anyone from BFL dare to confirm or deny?

No problem.
If that is something you feel must be done while on this system, you should be fine. I can't see why but okay.

Yeah, that didn't add up to me either. I was always under the impression bitstreams can't effect it's "power" or "voltage", nor would it change automatically even if you pushed it hard via overclocking. The worst that happens is invalids or errors in the output.

Your limiting factor is usually the motherboard, since your will have to resort to risers on PCIe x1 slots, to make up for the lack of PCIe x16 slots.

Then comes the factor 7970 use 225-230w (6 + 8pin), so you quickly going to run out of cables and power even in the biggest of PSU's so needing two is not unusual for big rigs.

Different OS can give you problems, but as long as it's 64bit it should not be a limiting factor, if in doubt try linux.

The very nature of these boards also adds to alot of heat in a small space, so cooling this would be like having a 1-2k watt electric heater constantly on; I've had one of these in the past, they can heat up an entire apartment or small house by itself.

So most people should be able to do 4, but you could be able to go up to 8 if you go the extra mile. I can imagine trying to go beyond that is worth it with one rig. Split it apart and make another Rig. I don't know of many motherboards that even have than 8+ PCIe slots.