I thought I would share a video I found recently that got my CPU up and running for the first time since I began trying to mine any alt coin. I am a beginner with almost no background in coding or configuring applications as technical as simply setting up your solo miner.
every single pool seems to forget there are people like us out there, that desperately want to mine, but don't understand the tutorials.
This video lays it out in a perfectly simple way, the pool mining part at the end is good as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f36QFGzpkYsometimes watching someone do something is worth reading that persons how-to a thousand times.