where to start mining?

[Madstudios30620]

I am new to bitcoin and Id like some bitcoins. I downloaded the bitcoin program and got
.02 bitcoins from the bitcoin faucet site. Ive turned on 'generate' for a little while but
I dont think Im getting anywhere. Ive got a pretty fast dual core cpu, what is the
best way to make some bitcoins the fastest?

[SomeoneWeird]

Never use the CPU mining on the bitcoin client, it is SO outdated it's not funny. You need a good GPU miner (I prefer poclbm), to get good results, and even then you should be using a pool. Read the basic tutorials and look at the wiki for some more info

[Iceredwing]

make a dwolla account. deposit money. tranfer to mtgox. buy btc. wait and profit. Easiest and the fastest to get BTC directly on your own.