Does the client generate bitcoins automatically or is this something else?

[322i0n]

On a couple of occasions i have found some coins have appeared in my client the client says these have been generated. What are they?



this one today was only 0.00011 but a few weeks ago i had 0.32 appear. How can i get some more?

[error]

You received a payment from Eligius.

[322i0n]

Ah really! I did mined at eligius and gave up because waiting for payments took so long. So this would make sense because i thought i had not been paid by them.