Why then aren't people keeping their GPU or FPGA rigs active if your ideas and Badonkadonk are correct? (that somehow a Jally or Little Single will be profitable even if there is a late delivery and ever increasing difficulty)

If you can't answer the above, then it's not trolling. It's just obvious.

P.S. The people who will be making tons of BTC are the mini-rig crowd (or people buying multiple units to approach a mini-rig like system.)

I got my usual electricity bill and found a slight shock that my powerconsumption for 1 aug 2012 - 1 sep 2012 was 1330 kWh and 1 sep 2012 - 1 okt 2012 1138 kWh.

I'm using 200kwh/month for non mining related costs, so basicaly during augusth my mining rigs where: 1330 -200 = 1130kwh.
1130kwh/30/24 = 1.57kw each hour.

I used to have this setup:
Rig 1: Aircooled tripple(3) AMD 7950 clocked at 1055core/625memory 1093mv, powerusage was 660w at wall using kill-a-watt
Rig 2: Watercooled double(2) AMD 7950 clocked at 1100core/800memory 1100mv/1168mv, I need to find logged data but according my electricity bill this amounts to 500w(?)
Rig 3: Watercooled single(1) AMD 7970 clocked at 1268core/1000memory 1243mv, I need to find logged data but according my electricity bill this amount to 400w(?)

I guess it's possible that my Rig 2 and Rig 3 used together 900w considering the overvolts?

It certainly makes no sense to have "no batches" and a "1/3rd" plan.

After running gpus how can one even be concerned about the power usage is beyond me looking at any of the asic's possible  usage...  to me it is irrelevant when i make the choice to buy. It will all be based on hashing for the dollar which will offset poss higher elect usage plus actually getting something that powerful. Any asic is the only choice. Pennies here or pennies there are of little concern.

More updates for the coming changes now that I'm back to digging into the Stratum server to allow user switchable payout methods (PPS/PPLNS).

With the coming changes, it will be possible to specify a difficulty on BTC Guild's stratum based servers.  Specifying a difficulty will be done using the worker password field using diff_1, diff_2, diff_4, etc.  The difficulty -must- be a power of 2 (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.) due to how variable difficulty is designed in my implementation.  If you do not use a power of 2, it will use the default vardiff settings.

When a user specifies a difficulty, this will be marked as your minimum difficulty, regardless of how slow submissions come in.  It will also follow different rules for increasing.  Instead of a 12-20 shares per minute target, it will only increase your difficulty if you exceed 30 shares per minute during a 5 minute window [sometimes faster in extreme cases].

These changes are not live yet, this is just a preview of some of the changes I'm trying to squeeze in before the reward halving hits.

...in my opinion the ASIC is scam and they will not be delivered.

They're $87 if you buy 5 or more. 

Seriously we use these things at work and I use them at home.  They're very reliable, apparently more reliable than the current generation of RPi.

Not correct, depending on HW/SW details. I used to have issues with the older Linux distro and some older cgminer too (I have a 256MB RPi)
After updating its system and cgminer, I am running it with a BFL Single for close to 2 months now without ever needing to touch it.

With regard to multiple Singles, it depends on the specific USB hub.

Guessing ... well, that's one of the major annoyances on http://forums.butterflylabs.com/
There are so many bootlickers and wannabe BFL employes on there that it's hard to filter out accurate information in all those tons of useless comments.
So many speculations and guesswork.

I posted my question ("working prototype") hoping that a BFL official would respond - but got banned instead.

It seems the purpose of those forums is only mutual sugarcoating and backslapping - to bear with the constantly delayed delivery dates.

If you mean like see them in BFGMiner or something, they won't all fit on a screen, no matter how big it is (I tried for a screenshot) ... the text got so tiny as to be illegible and it still only had about 120 on the screen.

I wouldn't worry about power usage if you have one or two Asics, they use as mutch as some lightbulbs XD.

Hi,

dmesg | grep -i ztex gives the following output
[  867.285970] usb 1-1.3.3: Manufacturer: ZTEX

dmesg | grep -i vendor gives that output
[  949.549067] usb 1-1.3.4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=046a, idProduct=0023

After doing
sudo modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x221a product=0x0100
i get a ttyUSB0 in the /dev folder and i do
sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyUSB*

The packages libusb-dev and libudev-dev are installed as the newest version (apt-get says that).

So far it looks right and from the tutorials it should work. But cgminer just says
"All devices disabled, cannot mine!"

How do i specify the device on the commandline? Seems to be my last hope before trying it with Debian Squeeze

EDIT:
I just found out how to specify a device - it should be
cgminer -S /dev/ttyUSB0 or
cgminer --scan-serial /dev/ttyUSB0

But cgminer just says this is an unrecognized option :/ Can it be i have a wrong cgminer-version or something?
cgminer -V says its cgminer 2.9.1