Hi all!

newby here! 

a few days ago a've heard about bitcoin, and now i wold like to do some mining. 
but as any other newby, i wold be very glad to receive some docs and infos.

i've alredy downloaded guiminer, but i'm unable to start mining. it gives me this error in the console :

^{2013-04-04 18:07:48: Listener for "btcGuild": timeout: timed out
2013-04-04 18:07:49: Listener for "btcGuild": Tracebstratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:07:49, IO errors - 3, tolerance 2
2013-04-04 18:07:49: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:07:49, No more backup servers left. Using primary and starting over.
2013-04-04 18:07:54: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:07:54,  timed out
2013-04-04 18:07:55: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:07:55, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2
2013-04-04 18:08:00: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:08:00,  timed out
2013-04-04 18:08:01: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:08:01, IO errors - 2, tolerance 2
2013-04-04 18:08:06: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:08:06,  timed out
2013-04-04 18:08:07: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:08:07, IO errors - 3, tolerance 2
2013-04-04 18:08:07: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:08:07, No more backup servers left. Using primary and starting over.
2013-04-04 18:08:12: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:08:12,  timed out
2013-04-04 18:08:13: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:08:13, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2
2013-04-04 18:08:18: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:08:18,  timed out
2013-04-04 18:08:19: Listener for "btcGuild": stratum.btcguild.com:3333 04/04/2013 18:08:19, IO errors - 2, tolerance 2}


so, now that i've introduced my self, i hope that you still have some paitance left for one more newb. 

Ciao,
JDev!