It's really nice that you care.... but I'd rather have help solving my problem.

The electricity really is free.  We have our own wind turbines powering our building.  We can't sell excess back to the grid - long story.  

I really do have permission to use the machines any way I want.

I'm trying to find the best config settings for cgminer on Mac OS X.  It runs just fine, but I'm only getting about 30kh/s with the scrypt settings I'm using.  That's less than I get CPU mining on the same machine.  If I switch to Bitcoin mining on the GPU, I get about 70 Mh/s.  

Specs:
AMD Radeon HD 6750M
MacBook Pro 2.2 Ghz Core i7 cpu
OS X (10.8 - Mountain Lion)

I know this isn't the most efficient use of my time or hardware, but my electricity is free and I have access to a lab with 30 of these machines every night, and the laptops are replaced every six months anyway so I'm not worried about killing them.  

Any thoughts?

Never mind. I upgraded to Mountain Lion, and it works just fine now.

I'm trying like crazy to get cgminer working on my macs.  I got it to compile, but it just sits there when I run it with the --scrypt option.  It works just fine if I try to mine Bitcoin with it.  If I enter the correct parameters for Litecoin, it doesn't do anything.  

I'll pay 500 LTC to anyone who can solve the problem... or more if it's actually going to take any work.

My terminal window looks like this when I run it with --scrypt:

Has anyone been able to get the latest cgminer working on Mac OS X? 

Any luck getting CG miner to compile on your mac? 

I recommend buying raffle tickets. 

Whoever is sending fractional payments (0.001, 0.005) to the current raffle address.... ummmm, thanks for donating to the prize pool.  I guess.   

I'll pay $2.51.   

I bought my first coins on ebay using PayPal. Yes, they were way overpriced, but I needed them and the seller had them.

It's like a Bitcoin Payday Advance loan.   I don't see anything wrong with charging high interest rates, as long as he's open and upfront about it.

1. Get 0.10 BTC loan
2. Buy 10 raffle tickets
3. Get your friends to do the same thing so the raffle ends faster
4. Win raffle
5. Pay back loan
6. Profit

Of course, a guy named Vinny might show up at your door and break your legs if 3-5 don't quite go your way.

This.  Double spending is a possibility, but it's also very unlikely. 

Yeah, it's a little depressing.  I got a shitload of emails during the first raffle saying 0.10 was way too expensive.  Maybe I'll give away free tickets next time.  \_(o.O)_/

Hi 

There are 1446 tickets left in the 50/50 raffle (0.01 BTC per ticket).  Winner walks away with at least 10 BTC and another 10 BTC goes to the winner's favorite charity.

 

Freddy,

Did you get a working solution for your problem yet?

It's working like a champ now.  I had to reinstall libidn and curl using macports. 

Thanks guys.

If you've got a Mac, try GPG Tools.

It does everything you need with GPG, but my favorite feature is the Finder integration. After you install it, you can right-click on any file in the Finder and you get the following options under Services: