In recognition of the sluthiness exhibited by lfm and ArtForz, I will send them the first coins that my healed 64-bit Linux machine discovers. Nice work guys. (lfm, post up an address, eh)
It would be great if some future version of bitcoin/bitcoind had an internal self-test, just to confirm that the hashing is working. As more folks try different options for specialized hardware, it seems all we have today is the indeterminate “difficulty 1” point-to-point test. A “known good” hardcoded hash seed could make this better.
ArtForz actually made a patch to check up on BitcoinMiner(), http://pastebin.com/YGUcqPYK