I know absolutely nothing about mining or Linux but I'm attempting to learn. I'm hoping maybe someone who knows a bit about it will see this post and help out a total noob and maybe other noobs out there attempting the same as me. I'm using a really crappy old laptop just to learn the basics before I decide to invest in something newer and more powerful. So far I have managed to install Linux in a separate partition and I've followed a couple guides on here on how to setup the miner. As of right now I have no idea whether it's working or not. As far as I can tell, what is going on right now is the miner syncing the blockchain, but it's been stuck on this for a couple hours now. Here's what it says:
167273ms th_a database.cpp:3440 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 1
187533ms th_a database.cpp:3456 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 2
209369ms th_a database.cpp:3462 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 3
279365ms th_a database.cpp:3468 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 4
530176ms th_a database_api.cpp:185 ~database_api_impl ] freeing database api 79982832
1010174ms th_a database.cpp:3474 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 5
1665889ms th_a database.cpp:3479 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 6
1742019ms th_a database.cpp:3486 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 7
1751448ms th_a database.cpp:3491 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 8
2082529ms th_a database.cpp:3497 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 9
2146556ms th_a database.cpp:3519 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 10
2203639ms th_a database.cpp:3525 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 11
3303999ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to -16004 us
7742ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to -40802 us
8384ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to -9819 us
16524ms ntp ntp.cpp:166 read_loop ] received stale ntp reply requested at 2016-08-12T21:00:14, send a new time request
28577ms ntp ntp.cpp:166 read_loop ] received stale ntp reply requested at 2016-08-12T21:00:19, send a new time request
314432ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to 6540 us
315339ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to -12295 us
317163ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to 66619 us
