Davinci,
I appreciate where you're going with this...
Sorry 'bout your recent run of bad luck, but keep in mind what Ford said:
"I thank god for my customers, because they keep buying my cars, even though I never finish building them..."
There are a lot of quirks to work out, unforseen things occur (but you do need to be mindful of the 'seeable' things, ie. backups, off-line testing, regression testing, etc). Don't loose the faith.
If you'll send me the information about your namecoin mining operation, and the gui-miner that you've put together, I'll look at it for you, and attach one or several of my rigs... I've a 30 Mhash laptop (both CPU/GPU) that I'll dedicate to connecting to/testing your namecoin pit today (once you send me the info), and if that works rather stable-y, I'll consider moving my 325 Mhash GPU over. Once they're off back-order, I should have 2 x HD6990's coming in as well. Again, depending on how this initially goes...
I missed the first couple years of bitcoins... just got into them in June/July - but I love to tinker with it. Your quest is truly what motivates me, which is the 'being on the ground floor' of something. I'm not in bitcoins as much for the money, as I am for the 'learning and exploring alternative currencies' portion of it.
If you've written anything on your thoughts/opinions on the whole fiat currency, I'd be interested in that as well.
I know you're going to be busy with the recent issues/upgrades. When you get some time, shoot me the information and/or links and I'll point some of my computing power your way:
jne0493 at hotmail.com .
V/R
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