I tried to start mining steem yesterday. Followed the Mining for dummies instructions but the cmake fails for steem on linux. It seems to be either unable to find or is looking for the wrong version of boost. Tried the windows version and it would just crash if I had the miner-threads = in the config file. It's running without it in there but it still crashes occasionally. I tried on a second machine and the same exact thing. Then I read in the How to mine page
You must not specify a witness with the same account name, your-account-name, on more than one steemd instance that has the necessary private key. If this happens then both instances of steemd will produce a block at the same time. Other nodes on the network will see this double-signing and submit a proof to the network that will allow them to claim your entire account balance.
UPDATE: By comparing the 2 guides, messing around, and with some help from 
So I immediately killed it on my second machine. There do not seem to be any instructions for a non witness mining node so no idea how to mine from 2 computers.
Is there any place to get help for this stuff. The slack support that is on the help page seems to be limited to steem team members only.
Update 2: After several hours it appears to be working but keeps crashing. Windows just crashes linux goes back to the command prompt. Both end up in corrupted database have to delete and restart from scratch.