I know its a long shot, but I was curious how often a solo miner solves a block?  Probably not a topic that would freely come up by the person solving it for anonymous purposes.

I was just doing some quick math and the odds are way up there-

For example, assume there are 170,000,000 TH/s out there right now.  If you had 5 newpac usb sticks overclocked to 100GH/s, that would be .5 TH/s.  Take the 170m and divide by the .5 and that is 340,000,000 blocks before you theoretically would ever solve one.   Divide that by 144 per day and we are talking 2.3 million days or ~6500 years.

Having said that, you have the same odds as anyone else, you could solve a on the first try, or get 10 in a row, or never.

It is said that the large pools such as slush pools represent about 15% of all bitcoins mined per pool.  But how often do you think a solo miner solves a block on their own?  Any good stories or discussions on the topic?