I woke up yesterday to find there was a problem with slush's pool ... went to bed yesterday with that problem on its way to being solved, and I wake today to find that problem solved. Slush's response to this attack has been (at least in my personal experience) light years faster than the responses of major corporations with their web site problems. So, without further adieu, GLASSES UP FOR SLUSH (I will wait however until I get back from today's town run as it may affect my driving). Many thanks to Slush.

THANK YOU Slush from a 4 day old miner noob. Your handling off this recent server attack shows me that I chose the correct pool. And for my fellow miners ... I too miss the account and statistics pages. I am a big fan of those. Keep on rocking Slush.

gave up on guiminer for now but I have cgminer up and going ... thanks to all who helped with that.

thanks

hello fellow noobs.

bump

Thank you drakahn  ... very informative results from the calculator there ... pool mining it is. could you take a look at my miner problems in the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=181290.0 noob needs help getting guiminer up and running??

ok so can someone tell this noob what my hashrate would be with a nvidia geforce gt 520?

So I re-read that logfile and it is a huge list of two repeating sets of lines. Below I will post those two sets:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 860, in toggle_mining
  File "guiminer.py", line 1008, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 679, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 896, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 860, in toggle_mining
  File "guiminer.py", line 1008, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 679, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 896, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

These two groups appear in no (at least to my eyes) apparent order throughout the logfile.

howdy from a fellow noob (also in need of more posts/time on boards)

I have my bitcoin client downloaded, installed, and up to date as to the block chain (the 41 hour download of the blockchain is finished ... kinda eager to actually get mining now). I also have the guiminer downloaded and installed, have already set the path to the bitcoin client, and I have used the guiminer to launch my bitcoin client as a server. I also have the windows binaries file from slush's pool downloaded and installed so that stratum mining should be supportred per the instructions on slush's pool site. Basically, I have done as much as I could figure out alone

My first problem is that my avg antivirus software showed the guiminer as a virus ... I tried to set it to allow it but my pc froze and I had to do a restart. now I can not get the guiminer to do anything, so I do not know if the antivirus problem is solved or not. I have read the log file that guiminer points to for the errors but I can make no sense of it. I can post that logfile if anyone thinks it will help them to help me. My second problem is how to configure my windows 7 firewall to allow mining.

Over the last hour since these problems occurred, I have not gotten the solo, nor pooled mining approach to work. Before my antivirus started screeching tho it appeared as if it was going to work on the solo tab at least. Thanks for any help that may be provided