A little help please. Like a genuine dunce, I removed the power cables when building a miner from spare parts and forgot the positioning of the cable leads on both the mining boards and the PSU breakout boards. Now I don't remember where either power cable end goes relative to the other end.

How does one determine which screw is pos and which neg on the mining board and the PSU breakout board.

Many thanks in advance.

Normal to not be paid? No! it is not normal.
Perhaps it is nearing the end for Eligius.  It wouldn't surprise me after this comment


Many a true word is spoken in jest.

BFGMiner is merely a continuation of the same project under a new name.

Great, sounds like you're the exception here who understands that.

No, the split off was Con/Kano deciding they would no longer collaborate.
If any project started forking off at this point, it was the new cgminer.
One could argue it was simply a two-way split of the same project, but to say new-cgminer is a continuation and BFGMiner "merely" a fork is unreasonable since BFGMiner just continued on as things were prior to the split.

In any case, how one prefers to label these things is much less relevant than what works best, which is ultimately the proper metric to be using when you choose your mining software.
For some people, cgminer works better (hot unplug and Avalon dynamic clocking come to mind as cgminer advantages at the moment).
For many others, BFGMiner is the clear winner... and we strive to make it better all the time.

Looking for cgminer and scrypt information. Since the paragraph hadn't changed subjects I assume you are intentionally being dense.

Yea, actually I did.  And advocated for it's use.  Evangelized.  Helped others in it's use in this very thread among others.

  And you spit at me because I chose not to read 720 pages.

Fuck you, douchbag.

And just FYI there are hundreds of coins these days.  Enjoy living in the past with the great Satoshi.  I can't imagine your stupidity in abandoning all the people who are the former user base of the now tarnished cgminer.

I'm having some odd issues since a while.

Running 3 BlueFuries and 1 BiFury USB miners (WinXP SP3), my cgminer started crashing every few days some weeks ago.
Looking at the Task Manager, I found out its RAM usage is increasing all the time, presumably running into some kind of RAM limitations (it's an older centrino notebook with 1.5GB of RAM).
After a day, I see it at about 60MB use of RAM, a day later it's at ~150MB, another day later roughly 350MB+ (which is about the area when it becomes very crash-prone, including using any of its basic menu functions that then can easily crash the application).
Generally its RAM consumption increases at about 4KB/sec.

The BiFury firmware was updated to V1.3 90deg version, which didn't change anything basically. The cgminer directory and executable are manually excluded from any antivirus scan that could interfere.

Could it be recent cgminer versions have some form of memory leak when operating this combo? I remember running just the 3 BlueFury devices for weeks (cgminer 3.8.4) never had this issue.
Only after adding the BiFury, I experienced this behaviour, so I think it's possible that it comes from the BiFury code portion running.
(so far I ran 3.8.4, 3.8.5 (BiFury added), 3.9, 3.10 and now 3.12).

Since the notebook is old, however, and if noone else is seeing such issues.... Could be my hardware of course. It's running pretty cool and the Notebook hardware basically is mostly idling along, so at least it's clearly not running into heat issues. Miners are cooled with a big USB fan and operated off an external powered USB hub.

I'm set for level 16 in load balance mode with about 25Ghashes pointed at it. If you have it right, it shows up after less than 30 minutes. I was trying to watch a flash video when I last noticed my computer getting chunky which eventually led to me trying to fast disable btcguild ,but it was too late and then to get stability back I ended up voluntarily rebooting my system (pc was looking to update my display , network drivers and .net service packs, so I needed to anyway) Picture below is not from most recent event but how I found it after leaving home for a few days not knowing this would happen.
http://i40.tinypic.com/fms7xh.jpg
I hope that gives you something to look into and hope it has nothing to do with pm to check winsock headers having problems with compiling.

I take that under advisement - and thats is half the reason I posed the question - my first thought is in the strictest interpretation of the above wouldn't that make the silk road hacking/java callback by the FBI/NSA illegal wouldn't it?

The other half of the question in my mind is what does the common man think?

They have been reported to the hosting company, the DNS registrar, the SSL Provider, The FBI, and more. Namecheap won't take them down briefly.