When guiminer is running on my XP machine, it silently cancels log out, restart, or shutdown commands. I have to close guiminer first in order to log out. I don't think that should be the default behavior.

I think that when payouts are cut and mining power decreases, the difficulty will reset to preserve the 6 blocks an hour. Also, transaction fees will be an incentive to keep mining as payouts decrease.

I don't know if Mt. Gox has been comprimised or not and I'm not ruling out your idea, but the fact that mostly newbs are posting here could be because (a) this is the only place they can post, and (b) they didn't register here until they had a reason to post, i.e. a problem.

Hmm. I tried -f90 and it's still pretty sluggish. So far it's the only app I've had a problem with.

I wonder why Quicken 2009's UI is so dependent on the GPU that you can watch every control repaint in slow motion. It's practically unusable.

I'm stuck in the newbie section for now...perhaps someone can pass word along. When guiminer is running on my XP machine, it silently cancels log out, restart, or shutdown commands. I have to close guiminer first in order to log out. I don't think that should be the default behavior.