Anyone tried this using guiminer?  I can see the file but not sure if I just edit the portion:

// Ma can also be implemented in terms of BFI_INT...
   #define Ma(x, y, z) amd_bytealign((y), (x | z), (z & x))

When making your backups of bitcoin, the wallet.dat file is located in the user file, (actual users name), AppData, Roaming, Bitcoin folder.

If you are at 130k+ blocks you are just at the current total blocks.  Nothing to worry about.  It only adds them as more blocks are added to the network.  You should be able to see lots of connections etc.  If not, you will want to check your router to make sure the main port for the client is allowed to your IP.

370Mh/s and been going strong for almost a month with my 1 GPU home computer. 

My main question is how would people even know that some of the coins are no longer in circulation?  I guess scarcity and the supply/demand will take force, but the loss of coins to the BTC economy could be a bad thing.

Glad to see it is only limited to a few hours and 5 posts.  I read somewhere else that it was 50 posts and while I spend a lot of time on forums I am mainly just a lurker.  Here's to being free of newb status soon.

It took me a while to even realize I was banned to the newbie forums.  I have been a member since May 17th and am a frequent lurker.  I have mined about 20 bitcoins so far (just letting my home machine run on a pool at night and while I am at work during the day with 1 video card).  I sold a few on MtGox once, and have been looking into ways I can offer BTC purchases on a few of the small websites I run. Being stuck in the newb forums is kinda boring.  

I am able to get a pretty constant 370-380 Mh/s with my 5870 running the clock speed at 900mhz, the ram at 900mhz and the fan at 100%.  I generally hover around 71 C.  I am just using the CCC AMD Overdrive software.  I am not sure if underclocking the ram really does anything or not. for heat, but I do it anyway.

I have actually had this very same concern.  What if a large number of Wallets were POWNED by a virus or something?  Would that be enough to destroy a large enough % of the total bitcoin network?  If 5MM coins were destroyed and the total became 16MM from the original 21 we are supposed to have would that make everyone's coins increase in value, or would nobody even really know.  There is not currently a way to track how many coins are really in circulation and how many have been lost.  If my machine were to crash today and I did not have a backup of my wallet they would be gone for good.

I work at an office building that has over 300 computers running 24/7.  I was thinking the other day that I could install  miners on all of them during the hours nobody is working since we leave them all on.  Too bad CPU mining is pretty much obsolete or I would look into it.

There have been a few times when I wondered if the person who originally started bitcoin worked at ATI.  "lets make something awesome that only our cards are good at...."