Received email this morning...my Jalapeños are on the way. w00t!
"Standard shipping," at least for my smallish order, turned out to be Priority Mail. Odds are they'll arrive here Wednesday afternoon.
They arrived here this morning...our mail must get here earlier than I thought. Click any of the pix to embiggen. :-)
They shipped in this box...
...into which this box was a snug fit:
Two Jalapeños tucked away inside (power supplies and USB cables are in the two small boxes on the right):
One had this note wrapped up with it:
Unboxed:
For now, it's on my work computer, which runs Windows. After a bit of work, I got the latest cgminer working within EasyMiner, and now have ~10.5 GH/s directed at BitMinter:
Ordered 29 Aug 12, arrived 19 Jun 13, order #6535.
To get EasyMiner working with something other than EclipseMC or Eligius, use the "manual mining" option under the settings tab. Fill it with something like this:
cgminer-nogpu -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u user_worker -p password
Repeat the -o/-u/-p options for each additional pool you want to configure.
It also wouldn't be a bad idea to replace the bundled cgminer (3.1.1) with the latest (3.2.2, as of this writing). cgminer 3.2.x uses a rewritten USB communication layer. Instead of the FTDI USB-to-RS232 driver, you'll want to use a tool called "zadig" to install the driver that cgminer will use:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwdi/files/zadig/Reboot and your miners will show up.
Eventually I'll take them home and plug them into my Gentoo mining rig. For now, though, this will work.
