I noticed that someone mentioned that names are starting to show up in the list more than once, so I reorganized the list by names:

http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/2013/01/butterfly-labs-preorder-list-sorted-by.html

I'm putting a link because I wouldn't imagine anyone would want me to just paste that list here.

I've left pplns on for around a day now, It seems like I'm earning about the same as I normally would. I enjoyed reading your responses and feel more educated for them.

I had some miners on fireducks pool and some on btcguild, I moved everything to PPLNS on btcguild, which right now makes me feel fairly foolish, since I'm hashing the same rates and getting, as far as I can tell a lesser award, Does this eventually pay out by sticking with it? Is it a game of probability.  If you can't dumb it down for me, just tell me to switch back to PPS. Thanks,
And I apologize for the newbish post.

Thanks,

Bsdpunk

Today I made an order for 1 Jalpeno, order number 12735

I'm a webdeveloper(php, perl, javascript, HTML5 etc..), I have a lot of linux administration, and cisco administration experience. A little bit of windows administration. And a tiny bit of embedded systems programming. Mostly, just web development. I'm open for the next 6 months, I've been freelancing and currently that isn't taking up hardly any of my time.  If I was working full time I'd need like 266BTC a month. Or I can price out individual features, or sites/projects, by the hour for 2 BTC an hour. Maybe a little less.

Trade In: No
Order No: 6997
1 Jalepeno
Date Paid: 2012 September 1st

Lol I guess I need to be logged in for 9 more minutes.

Thank you, that was helpful.

I spent so much on them, I figured I'd be better off buying hardware. Now I have purchased a butterfly single, and pre ordered a jalpeno. I have a 6950 in one of my compys, and a spartan 6 on the way. sheesh.

Has anyone tried these guys for mining?
http://www.amazon.com/Digilent-Nexys3-Spartan-6-FPGA-Board/dp/B005CEQVV6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348634667&sr=8-1&keywords=spartan+6

If so what, miner should you use?

Is it worth it to water cool mining rigs? What's the average rise in power consumption? I got a 100 dollar amazon gift card, so I'm considering getting an inexpensive cooler and trying it out.

Open source money, hellz yeah.