Any data center worth putting your rigs in will be expensive. You'll need a whole rack worth of mining gear - which, would have to be fully cased, making a maximum of probably four cards per 4RU - to make it worth the costs of rack rental, electricity, rack setup fees, connectivity, etc...

Source: DC Engineer

Well, many components are housed in plastic. If the plastic melted, thus reducing the insulation, that could lead to shorts.

Most mining applications are ranked as malware (by association) by various AV companies, as they've been bundled with worms and other nasties before.

Just like my grandmother used to say; "What you lack in elegance, make up with some f---ing scotch."

It used to. You're not reading me right. You've got to right click the preview of the application, not the icon in your task bar. It DOES work.

I like cdhowie's one: https://github.com/cdhowie/Bitcoin-mining-proxy

Have you tried flashing on the 6970 BIOS for unlocking more shaders, too?

Alternatively, hover your mouse over the icon in your taskbar until the preview appears. Then right click on the preview, and select "maximize".

I think you're overestimating how finely engineered the bitcoin FPGA's would be. It's quite unlikely that the IO bus has been tuned to the barest minimum before affecting hash rates, I'd think it's much more likely that they were a) the easiest to acquire/use, and b) the cheapest. Odds are the low end FPGA's from the same manufacturer use the same bus as the high end ones, it's just a different processing unit and oscillator.

You aren't decoding video here, you're still manipulating strings. WPA has a key length of 256 bits.

All the same, buy a few different ones, try them out and let us know!

I've heard 85% is a safe number for 24/7. Just make sure it stays cooled, or it's going to blow.

If it's a FPGA, you should be able to reprogram it to perform whatever algorithms you want, provided you have the know-how, or know someone with the know-how that likes money.

I doubt you'll find a "freely downloadable FPGA script to crack WPA" for your hardware. You'll probably have to write something yourself, or modify something you've already found.

I'm still "casually mining" on 3x shader-unlocked liquid-cooled 6950's in my machine - it's a gaming rig, not a mining box.

The price of electricity is very barely worth it during peak hours, running it overnight is still rather profitable.

It sounds like you're wanting to buy a forth. Well, they're still great cards for gaming, and with four of them in crossfire you're still going to be able to blow the pants off pretty much every game. You won't make back the outlay for the card before the reward halves, unless you get it for next-to-nothing.

If you're still keen on getting the card, even not for mining, wait a few months and pick up a cheap ex-mining card!

Otherwise, keep mining until it becomes unprofitable. Surely that makes sense.

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Ensure you haven't plugged your "problem" rig into the WRT's WAN port. It should be on 1-4.

Is it a faulty cable? Do you get LEDs lighting up? Try swapping the ports and the cables.

If not, check the output of ifconfig (linux) or ipconfig (windows). The output should be close to identical, apart from the Hardware address (MAC) and IP address. Specifically, the gateway, network and subnet should be the same.

You should also compare the output of "route -n" (linux) or "route PRINT" (windows) - your gateway should be the IP of your home router (shown next to network 0.0.0.0).

If all seems sane and you're still confused, try doing a 30/30/30 reset on your WRT (hold reset button for 30 seconds, then unplug power for 30 seconds (still holding), plug it back in for 30s (still holding), release.)

If you're still stuck, post some more details so we can help better.

You may wish to ask MtGox nicely if they have an API feed somewhere. If you started hitting their website every five seconds for a scripting purpose, and they find out, I doubt they'll be terribly happy. Bandwidth isn't cheap, if their sysadmin is decent he'll just block your IP.

You're all crazy.

Yes. I like this.

Cool project

If you don't release the source for the project, you'll find it'll be hard to convince people to generate addresses that they'll use - it's too hard to prove you aren't sending the private keys to yourself.

Do you have any other copies of the wallet file you can compare it with, to ensure your "really old copy" is still bit-for-bit accurate?

Ideally you would securely transfer a save of the page (which you saved on a secure computer, of course ) to your offline savings wallet computer / OS.

You can then even use another computer to redownload and compare using a hash, to ensure that you haven't gotten a targeted malicious copy, however unlikely that may be.

edit: bad link

They do exist, but why would you want an internal one?