So has anyone mined any primecoin yet? My transaction still doesn't show anything but judging by the specs of the vps i'm not surprised.
I've been mining XPM on DigitalOcean for the last 16 hours (thanks to Vorksholk from Bitcointalk.org forums for the tip), generated 18 blocks with about 1500 PPS at a cost of $10/day. I've written my own step-by-step guide along with my personal tips on the Primecoin forums:
http://www.ppcointalk.org/index.php?topic=336.0 I'm not great at ubuntu or command line so I stuck with the Ubuntu Desktop.