pardon the n00b question but, does cpuminer have any facility to detect when the current block's been solved (so that it can drop what it's doing and begin new getwork() or is that what the scan time discussion is addressing?

i'm wondering if cpuminer is (or can be made) intelligent enough to not continue to working on the old block, submitting stale shares somehow.. (i'm thinking of setting up pushpoold if that'd help).

sorry, it might also be called __init__.py if it's within in the pyopencl directory too.. check in there what opencl related modules it imports, chances are one of them is binary, run ldd on that file..

also you probably want to start look where libOpenCL.so* is your filesystem

what i don't get is why you don't consider people wanting to buy bitcoins to actually use them as a currency and spend them ?

for starters, look at the pyopencl.py file, see what the binary it imports is, and ldd that (you should be able to see what libraries it's dynamicaly linked against, and you'll likely see 'not found' for the opencl one.. then to work-around that, set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable containing the directory that libOpenCL.so.1 directory.. if you want to fix it more permanently, you'll need to re-compile pyopencl and this time specify a rpath (which hardcodes a path to the library) containing the dir libOpenCL.so is in

i still don't get why people buy purpose-built gpu's just for mining.. i mean if you're in the market for a new gpu to game or whatever (i think i outgrew gaming) then ok i see.. but to buy gpu's just to mine? seems like a waste of time, you could easily just exchange your $$ for bitcoins with a lot less trouble a far more immediately, unless you have some grandiose plan to get rich off mining (i have a bridge i'll sell you too i heard it'll go up in value also).

but seriously, realisticly how high will bit coins go though? they hit just under $32 per bitcoin, yes i know there'll be a finite supply one day but that's still decades away..

i heard somewhere it's not just 5 posts you need, i have more than 5.. but you need to be 'logged in' for at least 4 hours.. if you look at the top on the left, under your username, should tell you the total time logged in.. i'm up to 2 and a half hours only

is there any online source of historical difficulty levels (so we may see how they've changed over time).

if only we could start an uprising!!!

ahh wait, this is the internet.. and arguing on the internet is like competing in the special olympics..

cool link.. thanks for that

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sorry, i use a http proxy myself (i run one on a server remotely and then i ssh tunnel to that proxy directly, rather than use ssh tunnel as a socks proxy).  upgrade your curl version? or staticly compile a local version of newer libcurl and link/include that static lib into your miner ?

bump..

good thoughts here and well written, worth a bump, wouldn't you say?

would help if i post the link to the calculator i was talking of:

http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

(yeah i know i could edit my previous post but, i really need the post count so i can get out of this newbie-dom-hell so i protest conserving post-creation)

also saw this on another thread, a caulcator to figure how much power your system is going to use..

look at your electricity bill and figure out how much they charge you..

then look at mining pool stats and estimate how much those 700mh/s earn and extrapolate it over a months worth (or whatever time frame you want).

plus if there was a donate-so-i-dont-have-to-be-relegated-to-newbiedom link that'd be cool too

wow you SIR, have hit the nail on the head.. rarely do i see posts that this correct (and no i'm not being sarcastic though with such correctness i could see how one might think that).

SR (and sites ilke it) are the best thing that could have happened for the adoption/popularity boost of bitcoins.  a lot of people are upset about the associations being created, but i guess those people would prefer bitcoins remain as obscure and unadopted as they were before the article on SR that raised public awareness of BTC's..

if you run it on a single system, yes.. but if you have more than one, maybe not..

all i know is i've generated almost 80btc in less than the 3 weeks so far i've been into bitcoins, so.. *shrug*

i'm a professional lurker and i've been lurking for many years, please unlock me.. waah waah waah..

I would LOVE to know wot kind of rig this guy is using.. anyone have any info? or know how to find out ??

p.s.. yes the 250ish computers are at work :p no they don't know i'm doing this lol i am going to ramp up to ~700 on the weekends if my prox can take it heh