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Teamviewer detecting commercial usage? here’s how to fix

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Are you getting messages or being detected as commercial usage for Teamviewer software? Yeah and you’re not using for commercial. You just have a lot of computers to connect to at your home, family members, friends. However one small mistake could locked your Teamviewer account to being detected as commercial usage. I’m not sure how this work, how it detect you’re using it for commercial.

Well it happened to me, I blog earlier. However a couple days ago I contact Teamviewer, they responded within 24 hours asking me to send them some log files, which I did, and they responded hours later and I was surprise!

Below is the message. I thought their intention is to make money, but surprisingly they do allow home usage, so if your Teamviewer got detected wrongly, you can contact Teamviewer to investigate, and you’re using it for home only then don’t worry about it. However the moment you connected from an office corporation or company address IP, you’re locked detected as commercial usage forever. Reinstalling ain’t gonna help. I believe mainly based on IP address, if you have residential ISP you’re ok. But if your IP is business class or from office company business ISP then you probably will get detected.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you very much for your message.

I set your ID to private, non-commercial usage, because I believe you that you do only use TeamViewer for private use.

So you are now able to use the free, non-commercial version again.

But please keep in mind:
TeamViewer is only free for private, non-commercial use.
If you want to use TeamViewer commercially, please buy a license.

The free version can only be used in a private environment – for example if you help friends or relatives in your free time and do not receive any money for it.
Commercial use is every usage in a business environment. This means, if you use it at work or support customers and colleagues, it will be commercial usage. Therefore you are not allowed to use the free version of TeamViewer in any office environments. As soon as one of the PCs participating in a session is connected to a commercial network (office/school/etc.) it is considered commercial use.

If you have any further questions or require further information, please feel free to contact us.

Best regards,

 

Fixed my S1 fan problem?

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A few days ago, I blogged about one of my S1 dead. Power connected, Ethernet connected, fan connected, power on, started mining and within seconds to one minute the whole system shut down. I tried to reboot by turning it back on with power supply on/off switch. Thought the power supply is dead because psu did not turn back on. I removed the power cable to the S1 miner, unplug power cord, turn off switch position on psu, for a few minutes. Turned switch PSU alone and the luckily the PSU started right up.

I hook the PSU back to the miner, but no luck, it does the same, mining for a few seconds then the PSU shut down again. I noticed the fan act funny. The fan on the S1 miner when boot up the fan spin for a brief few seconds and stopped spinning, even when it start mining which heat up the blade but fan still don’t spin. So I by-pass the fan connector to the board by hooking it directly to the PSU 12v wire which will fan it 100% all time. Reboot the S1 miner but still nothing, same thing it does with the fan spin 100%.

So then I realized maybe because this S1 miner no longer like my freq of 393.3 overclocking to get that 200GH/s, so how do I restore the original freq without internet, because with the internet the S1 will automatically start. Simple solution below to restore to default freq.

  1. Power up the S1 and immediately go to your miner IP address and go directly into the System – Startup program and click on Stop cgminer.
  2. SSH to the S1 ip address, login as root
  3. edit the freq file back to 350mhz, save, exit and reboot.

**PS** If you cannot get the miner to stop mining based on step one above. You can try connecting the ethernet cable directly to one of your computer ethernet port, then change your computer IP address to match with miner IP address first three segments #. Example if your miner IP is 192.168.1.10, then change your computer IP4 ethernet IP to manually 192.168.1.1 all across, then SSH or web browser to your S1 miner. You will not have internet using this method, so no need to worry about the S1 miner will automatically mine temporary.

Voila! now you’re back at 350mhz which will mine at speed of 180gh/s and it’s stable. Works for me 🙂 now I get my 180gh/s back. Loosing 20gh/s though. The fan still don’t work when plug directly to the board, I think the firmware might have play a big role effecting it, I could have restore the firmware also, but this 100% fan direct to the PSU works fine, just have to keep an eye on it though, since I’m not 100% sure it was the overclocking problem, could be something else.

how to fix s1 miner crashed shut down fan problem

how to fix s1 miner crashed shut down fan problem

Cannot login to Skype lately no matter what version you download?

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Microsoft really done it, they really destroying the Skype users community, we’re loosing faith. Skype was working great! then sold to Microsoft, still works great! until lately, it’s going downhill. Really sucks, whatever Microsoft are doing, it’s not helping.

If you’re using old version of skype, you will get an error message and it kicked you out, sign you out and ask you to download upgrade new version. If you’re using third party software like trillian, forget it, it’s not letting you in. Even if you download newer version for your PC, still you will have problem signing in, let alone using it.

Again if you’re using third party like trillian, who knows if it will ever work again with trillian and third party software. Android? not working either, there isn’t any latest version. Whoever got into skype, they still stayed login, but cannot make complete phone call, it will ring ring ring and disconnect the recipient never see the call. If you sign out, you will never be able to get in again. That’s how it is at the moment, I believe for over 2 days already since August 5th 2014.

Hope Microsoft fixing it, not fixing it by breaking, or fixing it by adding restriction, or fixing it by requiring everyone to pay fees per use, which will sucks big time!.

http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/

how to fix skype login problem

how to fix skype login problem

Ensure your website uptime is close to 100% if you’re doing google adsense

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I got penalized for being offline for 1 week due to power outage and I was away from home for business trip. My plan setup with backup power supply didn’t work out. The UPS Belkin was a failure. Perhaps it was my fault for playing around with the battery, I purchased a marine big car battery and replaced it with the original Belkin battery, that didn’t work out. Power outage went out and so does the UPS, and when power restore, the UPS still dead, it’s worst than having just a power strip. At least a power strip would power back up when power is back. My web servers were hooked up to these UPS.

Anyhow, the bottom line. If you’re doing blogging and revenue generated mainly from Google Adsense, be vigilant, ensure your backup power or surge protector are working, you don’t want a day without power to your web server. Google adsense basically crawl your website constantly to determine your contents legitimate and put you in top rating search result. However if your website is down for even a few hours let a lone a whole week, you could get penalized and all your traffic and hits will get decreased and eventually no longer showing up on google adsense. This mean, no traffic, no revenue.

The good news is you can still work on getting back on track to get google crawling your website again, but ensure to not let it happen again. It will take time for your website to shows up again on google search engine and other search engine.

glyde.com probably the best place online to buy used mobile devices and tablets

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Got a good deal on Ting.com shop which connected to Glyde.com and I got the HTC EVO for $39.99 in acceptable condition, which is good enough for me.

OK I must admit that I’m a geek. I want to try out new gadgets, and some cases I don’t even need the gadgets. Sometime just to test it out by never use it again. In fact I have an Oculus Rift Development Kit that I purchased many months ago, I used it a couple times, got a headache but wanted to try it again later on when I set up a more powerful computer with awesome graphic card, I think that will help with the graphics.

Anyways, this blog entry is about Ting.com and the phones or mobile devices that they’re selling that can support their network. Well Ting.com appears to be Sprint network. Glyde.com is the place where they hook up to get the phone to work. I actually purchased a device today on Ting.com website. Ting.com shop actually interface or integrated with Glyde.com because the check out screen took me to Glyde.com and completed the purchased.

I purchased a $39.99 + $5 tax fee shipping and I should get it in a couple weeks or less. Acceptable condition is fine for me, I don’t need no brand device for testing and experiment. If it work well, I will get another one and will give it to my daughters to play with. The plan probably $10 for each phone, with just few mins talk time, unlimited text, and 100meg data, most of the time they’re home and will be using wifi. Only make emergency call and play off line games.

Is Ting.com affiliate with Glyde.com SIM is included

Is Ting.com affiliate with Glyde.com SIM is included

Air travel via mobile ticketing is very convenient

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With the technology we have at our fingertip today, it’s very convenient sometime or most of the time. Take air travel for example. I can use my mobile phone that have internet wifi access or even mobile internet access will also work. Doesn’t have to be an expensive mobile device cell phone such as an iphone and samsung galaxy. In fact, what I have is older model of the HTC and work just fine. So what work? Air Ticketing!

I booked my flight through hotwire.com via my mobile device. Got my ticket via mobile device. Printed my ticket on my mobile device. It saved the ticket in PDF format or other format your mobile device can display, such as a link picture appear with the QR code. I checked in via mobile device. Head to the airport, parked, took shuttle to terminal, head straight to security check point gate. Handed the mobile device to security checkpoint personnel, they validated it, scanned it, and off I go to my gate. The gate personnel does the same thing, scanned it and off I go to my seat! flawless! well not quite.

Here’s the cons I see on using mobile device air ticket. With many pros, the biggest con of all is, what if your mobile device runs out of battery, or crashed? well some may say, there’s a charge station nearby! WRONG! some of the airport I go to, does not have a charge station nearby, I would have to literally walk long way to get to it from my gate. I think that’s the biggest con, so if you’re worrying about your phone mobile device died on you, it’s better to go to the counter and ask for a printed boarding pass just in case! 🙂

use mobile air ticketing easy and convenient

use mobile air ticketing easy and convenient

Child locked-in-car alone device cost less than $100 to install easy

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So you have money to spend on a nice car, upgraded your car stereo dvd system or nice set of wheels for your car, but you didn’t spend money on having a child safety locked-in-car warning?  despite the fact that you know you have a toddler? EPPING! unbelievable, these devices are out there, and it’s not that expensive or hard to install, what? you afraid it will not look nice on your car than the safety of your child? ePP yOU! come to my house, I will install a workable device that can irritate the FRACK out of you when you leave your car with your child inside so this would never happen! can you imagine the agony death how the child take his or her last breath before death!? I should stop watching the news, some news just pisses me off  http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/hot-cars-and-child-death-prevention

Lately there has been a lot of fatality related child locked-in-car, mostly extreme heat, and possible extremely cold also, and off course loss of oxygen even the temperature is just fine.

The device could be homemade, or professionally installed for $300 or less. I personally can create a device right now for less than $100 installed and it will irritate the FRACK out of you to make sure you bring the child out of the car.

Where can I buy AC fan motor capacitor and other HVAC parts?

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Short answer: at grainer.com, search for the parts, buy it, and go pick it up at the nearest location to your area.

No, you’re not going to find capacitor, or AC fan motors, or AC contactor at homedepot, lowes, walmart, ACE hardware, and so on, they don’t have it.

You can call around locally nearest to your house but, those HVAC places around you probably not going to sell it to you, they will only sell it to contractor, like those people charge you an arm and a leg to fix your heating cooling system. You will be better off looking for local electrical supplies, such as grainer.com they’re the best, they have all the parts to your home AC and heating replacement parts. Keep in mind that it’s better for you to bring in the old parts when pick up the replacement parts to make sure it will work, it does not need to be 100% exact model or part#, but other specification match to the minimum requirement is good enough.

For example. I have Lennox AC unit located outside the house. Late it made loud humming noise. Found out the motor wasn’t spinning, although the compressor ran but very loud I guess due to the heat built up. Luckily I caught it on-time and shut down the AC.

I shut off the circuit breaker panel to the AC unit, also pulled out the shut off switch to the AC unit, then use the volt meter to ensure no more voltage or power feeding to the AC unit. In addition I also discharged all the capacitor by shorting it.

Next I removed the top cover where it hold the motor, disassemble enough to see the motor model #, specification and wires. Went online to grainer.com and search for the spec.

Since Grainer.com nearest location is an hour away, I went ahead and check those other parts on this 5 years old AC unit and buy all replacement parts at the same time. So I got the capacitor, additional ran capacitor for the new motor, and the contactor since this could go out in 5-10 years. So I removed all these items and search for the same spec replacement parts at grainer.com Drove an hour to pick up, and no they don’t ask if you’re contractor or personal, they might ask if you’re picking up for yourself or for your company though. It’s ok no worries, yourself is fine.

Went home and replaced it. Connect back the shutoff connector, switched the breaker back on. Turn on the AC controller on the thermostat, the AC unit kicked on 1 time for 1 sec, then off, then it kicked in again 1 second then off. Don’t worries, just leave it alone. Within 15 minutes or so, your controller thermostat will eventually trigger the contactor to turn on the AC. Give it sometime, don’t get scare thinking it doesn’t work. It will work just make sure you get all the wiring done correctly and you hear a momentary trigger to turn it on. It almost seems like it’s learning on how to behave properly with the new parts.

where to buy AC compressor fan motor capacitor contactor?

where to buy AC compressor fan motor capacitor contactor?

IRC mIRC chat room are still pretty much famous for getting quick answers to any questions you have

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Most people probably still remembers the good old days chat room. From BBBS, dial up modem, to AOL chat, then eventually we had that IRC chat room, then with a bunch of others like ICQ, Paltalk, and so on. Well guess what? IRC still exist and pretty strong.

The most famous public chat room IRC server probably is freenode.net just like the good old days dal.net. It’s still public and still free, with many relay servers all over the world to keep it up and running. However file sharing probably shrunk or disappeared.

Whether you have questions about kids, math, electronics, how to, and so on, there are chat room in there that you can quickly ask a question and someone will answer. But! remember this very important. Whatever answer you received, take it into consideration before believing in it, taken it seriously or perform the tasks being recommended suggested. It could harm you. Just be smart.

So instead of hopping on forums, google search and youtube, you might be better off in IRC chat room. 🙂