You are a brave soul!  +1 reputation point for that.

Also you are not in the git directory, when you do the easy_install stratum  be in the directory before the stratum directory.

root@avalon:/home/jack# easy_install -U distribute
Searching for distribute
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/distribute/
Reading http://packages.python.org/distribute
Best match: distribute 0.6.36
Processing distribute-0.6.36-py2.7.egg
distribute 0.6.36 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing easy_install script to /usr/local/bin
Installing easy_install-2.7 script to /usr/local/bin
Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.36-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for distribute
Finished processing dependencies for distribute


root@avalon:/home/jack# easy_install stratum
Searching for stratum
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/stratum/
Reading http://blog.bitcoin.cz/stratum
Best match: stratum 0.2.12
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/stratum/stratum-0.2.12.tar.gz#md5=a685da0dce43263db08ae949568b0f54
Processing stratum-0.2.12.tar.gz
Running stratum-0.2.12/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-VMEAZ0/stratum-0.2.12/egg-dist-tmp-RDHzmk
The required version of distribute (>=0.6.28) is not available,
and can't be installed while this script is running. Please
install a more recent version first, using
'easy_install -U distribute'.
(Currently using distribute 0.6.24dev-r0 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages))
error: Setup script exited with 2

Vladimir, with your mining power perhaps you can contribute an idea like p2pool to stabilize. No more DDoS, distributed mining (and distribute reward) in the spirit of the whole Bitcoin project.

Please, take a glance and consider a testing period on it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0

This incident I believe is being handled well by the site owner/s. At the end of the day it will be 'business as usual' and no-one (including those who seemed to temporarily gain from this scammers actions) will be any the worse off.

I'll be allowing MtGox some more time to harden their security. These things take time. Im sure neither they nor anyone else remotely interested in Bitcoin could have foreseen the growth explosion that was about to occur just a couple of months ago. I also think people expecting MtGox to have been prepared and able to defend against experienced hackers is unreasonable. MtGox knows it unreasonable which I suspect is why put the maximum $1000/day withdrawal limit in place - just in case something like this should happen. But I wont be waiting forever. MtGox needs to act and act fast if traders are to maintain any level of confidence in their site. To not act will result in huge financial loss and others will pick up the ball and do what is required to secure traders against this type of attack. For now I'll let MtGox run with the ball - its their call as to where they and we go from here.

You are dead on!

PR game is critical now. The wiki should have a PR section addressing main issues as they evolve. Twitter is full of garbage and ignorance. We need a PR team.

We need a section of this forum entirely dedicated to Public Relations

There, we can discuss media articles about Bitcoin, identify where the biggest dangers and misconceptions lie, deconstruct these misconceptions and come up with some snappy rebuttals.