However, now I'm getting even more and more annoyed at my incompetence with it. Tried each of the different miners it suggests, but couldn't even get any of them to begin to work, and the Help info given for each of them proved rather unhelpful or nearly impossible to find.
Settled on just trying to use puddinpop's until such time as it works. However, the more I try, the further from working it gets. Such that, half an hour ago whenever I opened Bitcoin it started generating on startup (was testing if the bitcoin.conf file was in the right area), then, Without changing where it was located, suddenly it stopped doing that... Tried everything to get it to find the file again short of reinstalling Bitcoin, and still no luck.
I think I figured out the correct info to put in bitcoin.conf though, and the correct thing to run for puddinpop's to get it to work...
rpcpassword=mypass
rpcport=8332
rpcconnect=Either mining.bitcoin.cz or 178.79.147.99
Not sure if I missed something, but, when I run the following I either get
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 22
or
CURL return value = 7
Though I stopped getting the latter more recently, so I think I got whatever needed to be changed for that changed.