Right on, for the moment I've got no rush so I'll just let it crank away for a while.  If I get desperate sometime a week or so from now then I may just take you up on that.  Thanks TheRealSteve.

Interesting.  I'm using a version that I checked out from git just last week.  I installed the build-deps for debian and then ran make and I was off and running.

Oh this, I look closer and I see that I've also got -i set, whoopsy!  That explains the descrepancy.  Given the fact that you can't have lower case "l" in a bitcoin address, I may just need to look into that split key thingy and/or use a better computer for this project

Thanks for pointing this out!

I really appreciate the offer for this.  TBH, I have to work on quite a few other projects today and tomorrow but as soon as I get a chance to look into this more closely I'll more than likely contact you to take you up on this.  Again, many thanks.  It's not that I'm unappreciative, I've just gotta knock out some other priorities before looking more closely into vanity addresses

Cheers!

Edit: Another thing I just thought of is the fact that I have an old Antminer which hashes as about 3GH/sec, I have no idea if it's possible to use this to find a vanity address but I would think that it is in principle.  Maybe I should read more on how to point vanitygen to my miner (right now it's just running on an oldish amd64 at my work ).

Good point, that final comment was obviously some sort of wishful thinking on my part.  Thanks again for all the help here.  I'll be looking into this more carefully soon.  Cheers again!

Safeness is the same, that's the whole point of split key generation - the requesting party doesn't have to trust the generating party

vanitypool will work as well, though - still people polling it (manually or using vanityminer) - just keep in mind that you have to pre-pay.  Not terribly expensive, but not free (of course the generating party's electricity/time isn't free either, but there you go).

The main down side to vanitypool is that you have to pre-pay and prices are rather on the high side.

in wich wallet do you want to import your private key ?

This may help you:
http://www.stanley-adams.co.uk/2013/12/custom-vanity-bitcoin-address/

Try installing home brew this way:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

Ok, try this one: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

I spend several hours getting oclvanitygen working with AMD Radeon 7xxx on 64-bit Linux - Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 14.04
In the end only the following is needed:
Ubuntu drivers
vanitygen patch
1 userspace library file from AMD APP SDK v2.7
I created a minimal instruction text file. Maybe this will save someone some hours of searching the internet.
https://nastyfans.org/download/oclvanitygen.txt