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10 BTC!

Would you be willing to reserve one for me for 1-2 BTC up-front until I have the rest?  I currently have enough, but I have placed an offer on another game on this forum and don't have the BTC for both just yet.  So I don't want to offer the same BTC to two different people in case they both accept. 

I have a loan out that will mature in 11 days, but I will probably make the remaining 8-9 BTC from my mining activity well before then.

I'll bid 9 BTC.

EDIT: Are you active on OTC?  If we do wind up completing the transaction, it'd be nice for each of us to get a trust rating out of the deal.

No point in obfuscating the address... blockexplorer, combined with the date and time of the transaction (or even the assumption that it happened within N hours of your post) is sufficient to determine the address you paid to.  

EDIT: In case you don't believe me the transaction was ae3e5c6914598b54840fd97805847c7a7695460c9d915b972e44dd1a6f30fa60.

Long-polling proxying is now implemented.  The only remaining feature on my list is connection pooling to take advantage of HTTP 1.1 keep-alive connections, but I'm not sure how feasible this is in PHP without using some external connection-pooling daemon.  I might make a release before this feature is implemented.

The GUI client will periodically present you with a new address, I think after a transaction is received at the one that was displayed before.  None of this matters though, because your client never discards secret keys.  In other words, as long as you have not lost your wallet, you will always be able to use coins that arrive at any address your client has ever created for itself.

Hello everyone,

My wife is a recent college graduate (English major, Spanish minor) looking to get into the translation/editing business.  Since this is a difficult industry to break into, she is looking to get some freelance experience.  Since there's really nothing in the local area, we figured the worldwide Bitcoin economy might provide more opportunity.

If you're interested, let me know some job details and we can work something out.  She is open to translating a few sentences up-front if you would like a sample of quality.

No, it's not.    If you can get a partial image (by skipping bad sectors) then the software may be able to reconstruct the master file table and extract undamaged files.  This assumes, of course, that the BIOS recognizes the drive.  In my wife's case, the BIOS did, but the first 11GB of sectors were unreadable.  The rest of the drive was mostly intact and this was enough for the software to recover files.  It won't work in every case, of course.

But yes, if you are worried about damaging the drive further, it would be best to leave it to the professionals.

If it takes the usual amount of time to POST then it sounds like the circuitry is having issues -- in this case a data recovery shop should have no trouble extracting the platters and putting them in another drive enclosure.

If it takes a long time to POST, then the drive might be trying to spin up and calibrate itself, and this could be failing.  You could always try the freezing trick and see if that helps.  (I've had successes with that in the past.)

If you have access to a Linux box, you could image the readable space using dd_rescue and then try recovering data using various software programs.  If the filesystem was NTFS, I've had good luck with GetDataBack.  It was able to recover all of my wife's important files after her hard drive failed.

Comment from the peanut gallery: Kb/s measurements are specific to the codec in use.  For example, uncompressed PCM at 22.5kHz computes to a much higher Kb/s figure than lossy 320Kb/s MP3, but the latter will have better quality (assuming the input for both conversions is close to or higher than 44.1kHz).  Likewise, 96Kb/s Vorbis is usually considerably higher-quality than 96Kb/s MP3, when processing the same input.

So when talking about Kb/s you need to reference which codec you are comparing, otherwise the measurement means nothing.

I know that CoinCard does automated BTC->PayPal conversions.

Ok, I think I'll accept; PM me the address you will receive at.

If you are willing, would you mind repaying a bit over time from your mining activity instead of all at once after two weeks?  If I see a little bit coming in every few days I'll be more comfortable.    Not trying to question your intentions or anything like that, this is just my first such loan and I want it all to go smoothly.

I might if I knew what it was for.  I'd have to be able to assess the risk. 

Anywhere, so long as you don't separate another switch and its argument.  The end is a good place to put it if you want to be sure. 

You shouldn't have to if you use -f.  Try adding -f 120 to the command line and play a game.  The game framerate will be just slightly degraded; I don't usually notice a difference.  If you have dual monitors and put the miner on the one you don't use for gaming, you'll notice that the hashrate will drop dramatically while you play.  Basically it will be using the extra GPU cycles that the game is idle during.

Your jocularity detector is broken, please fix it.

Awesome, thanks!  FYI, I would definitely recommend in a beefy, high-quality UPS -- one that cleans up dirty power.  If you're going to run electronics hard on power, make sure it's not going to DoT your equipment.    (Sorry for the WoW reference; couldn't help myself.)

Having been a geek for most of my life and not having people understand me, I started figuring out how to effectively express ideas via analogy while in college.  That helped a lot. 

So far I've taught two friends how it works.  I tried explaining it to my wife, but I honestly don't think she cares about Bitcoin.