So, I heard about this on 8 August and fired it up on two machines -- one is a modern eight-core and the other, seven years old.  My first transaction was generated on the fast machine in about 30 hours.  No transactions since on either machine.  Did the rate of block generation slow down since the tenth?  That's what I'm guessing from the discussion here, but as a noob, I'm not really sure how to be sure or where to check these changes.  Did I immediately precede Bitcoin being slashdotted?