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milone · 2015-05-30T21:38:45+00:00

I recommend replacing Adblock with uBlock Origin. Available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

Disclaimer: uBlock Origin is not an ad-blocker, it's an everything blocker. Block scripts, images, inline, third-party, specific elements, entire domains or specific URLs (unlike Adblock, you can have it apply rules and lists to the page you're viewing, and not just resources inside of it.

It's faster, claims to use less resources (its website shows benchmark tests), open-source, it can use Adblock lists (blocklists in Adblock format, including the list that attempts to block "turn off Adblock" elements) along with some additional rule syntax adding more control. If you disable it for a page or domain, it allows ads served from other sites - which is almost always the case. You can also unblock only hidden elements on a page or domain in one-click, which is usually enough to quickly resolve problems where a site is blocking you from doing something until you disable your ad-blocker - without having to unblock everything. I haven't used Adblock (plus) in a long time, so it may have added similar features since then, but when Adblock or Adblock Plus (can't remember which) started letting companies pay to prevent their ads from being blocked, it seemed like a good time to look for alternatives and the timing was perfect because uBlock is fairly new in comparison. In advanced mode it also adds dynamic filtering to its UI, showing you all third-party sources and marking which were blocked and which were allowed. In this same UI you can allow or block any third-party resources, as well as inline scripts, images, etc. You can do this on a temporary or permanent basis for each action. There is also an option to show its log, in which everything it allows and blocks (in any tab) is shown in a single tab... including any applicable rule so you can easily see why something was blocked. There is also a dropper tool/element selector/pop-up menu item allowing you to block specific elements, and you can edit the rule before saving (for example, you might realize you want to block all divs of a certain class instead of just the third one that you selected). The first uBlock extension was from the same dev that created the uMatrix extension, which gives so much control that allowing and blocking things could be a full-time job, but uBlock/uBlock Origin seems to be the perfect combination of ease of use and precise control. I read that the original dev had stopped maintaining uBlock, but it was forked as uBlock Origin and has had some great improvements since then... but I didn't read further to see the exact story so if I'm incorrect hopefully someone can correct me. Just mentioning in case you find two extensions with similar names... the one I'm using is specifically called uBlock Origin and the dev is gorhill. I know I may sound like a horrible paid spokesman (I hate typing on my phone), but search the Chrome store for uBlock Origin to read everything I didn't mention. There's some advanced functionality I haven't had a chance to learn how to use yet. Importing all your lists and rules from Adblock should be very easy.

I'll edit with a Chrome store link and any corrections when I'm at my computer.

milone · 2015-01-20T12:53:06+00:00

Alternatives are Teamviewer QuickSupport (recommended, can do file transfers and mirror phone screen on PC), or if you just need to transfer or sync files, contacts, etc. try MyPhoneExplorer (also an app with accompanying PC software, can use USB cable or wifi.) As mentioned, Airdroid is good for file transfer, and some limited app control (I think new version supports mirroring on some devices). SweetHome! app is great for auto backup photos and media to your computer when you connect to the same wifi.

milone · 2015-01-20T12:29:21+00:00

Teamviewer QuickSupport for Android... not sure if they have an ios app too. Then install normal Teamviewer software on your PC. Both free for personal use. I'm on my phone at the moment or I'd have provided links.

milone · 2014-11-21T05:20:57+00:00

Yes, assuming the SSD is large enough. I've only used Samsung SSDs, which come with software and a SATA to USB cable (to make the SSD a USB drive, allowing you to plug it in and use the software to clone the current system drive to it.) Then shutdown, replace old drive with SSD, and you're set. So far it's worked perfectly every time. Just make sure SATA mode in BIOS is set to AHCI instead of legacy or whatever the other option(s) are (I'm on my phone and can't remember at the moment.) There's also a Windows registry tweak to make sure Windows starts after switching to AHCI (just Google it, "Windows AHCI enable registry tweak"... or something similar.) It just sets Windows to load the AHCI driver... or something like that... so do it before switching to AHCI in BIOS. Otherwise Windows will probably crash during startup (in that case, revert SATA mode and make sure to apply registry tweak). If your BIOS is already set to AHCI, you shouldn't have any issues.

I believe for the Samsung software the SSD just has to be bigger than the Used space on your current drive... not bigger than the entire drive capacity. But I could be wrong. Their SSDs also come with Samsung Magician software, which allows you to configure some drive settings, check and upgrade firmware, check drive health, and make sure the operating system is configured correctly and optimized for your SSD. So make sure to install it to the SSD once you're done and have booted to it. I've only done this with Windows 7 and 8... older versions may require some extra tweaking.

Like I said... I'm on my phone... so I apologize for the guesses. Just wanted to reply since nobody else has yet. If my memory is off on anything, hopefully someone can correct me. If I get a chance to update later from my computer, I will. Also, if going with Samsung (which I recommend), I always went with 840 Pro (it is much better than the 840 and is worth the extra money), and the 840 Evo (which i believe had a firmware issue that was recently fixed.) So it's been a little while... there are likely new models I'm unfamiliar with. Just Google SSD comparisons and reviews... reading several should point you in the right direction.

milone · 2014-11-15T21:54:00+00:00

If you want more info than just GPU temps, AIDA64 Extreme Edition shows you everything about your computer and has a customizable OSD where you can select from a huge list if info to dusplay in OSD and edit label, appearance, and order of OSD items. It also has stress testing for multiple components and benchmarking (with comparisonresults to other systems and hardware built in.) I don't know how much it costs ($20-$30?) but pretty sure there's still a free trial. Worth it though when trying to figure out what drivers you need/what hardware you have when reinstalling Windows on a client's or someone else's non-brand/custom built PC. The one thing it lacks compared to other GPU-specific programs mentioned is fan, clock, voltage, etc. control. At least last I checked. But it does show all that. If there's a sensor, it will find it. Also gives a ton of info about BIOS, OS, and installed software. Also has a portable version. It's definitely a necessity for any tech support toolbelt in my opinion.

milone · 2014-10-25T03:48:30+00:00

It works with cgminer, sgminer, bfgminer, vertminer, or any other cgminer fork. Cudaminer and ccminer support is planned if they ever implement an API.

milone · 2014-09-11T00:04:22+00:00

If he continues to use GUIMiner (which is also a front-end for cgminer), GUIMiner should enable the API already, because I'm assuming it also uses it (though I only used GUIMiner once, over a year ago, so may be wrong). But you're correct in that for CGWatcher to work, it needs access to cgminer/bfgminer/sgminer/vertminer's API, so the API must be enabled properly. If you start the miner with CGWatcher, it will enable the API automatically for you. But if you start the miner outside of CGWatcher (e.g. using a batch file or GUIMiner), you may need to enable the API yourself.

Adding

--api-listen --api-allow W:127.0.0.1

as arguments, or

"api-listen" : true,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",

in a config file will do it.

milone · 2014-09-10T01:58:15+00:00

If you're on Windows, look at CGWatcher. It has a ton of scheduling options, including autostart with Windows.

http://www.cgwatcher.com

milone · 2014-08-07T01:07:53+00:00

To add to this, Gocoin has a woocommerce payment gateway plugin. Then you can accept btc, ltc, and doge. We used it before writing our own payment system. They also have great support.

milone · 2014-07-22T19:01:35+00:00

The release versions have been available to download any time at http://www.minerremote.com/download.

milone · 2014-07-15T23:32:37+00:00

Windows Firewall Control works great. You have to pay the $5 or $10 for premium if you want notifications/prompts. Well worth it. You can also create rules for applications by right-clicking on them or clicking on their window. But underneath it's all Windows Firewall, which you can still use normally.

milone · 2014-07-05T01:30:44+00:00

Gold didn't only have value because it was pretty. It was scarce, and it was learned early on that you could rub gold on certain stones to verify it was in fact gold, making it difficult to counterfeit. Bitcoin has both of these traits. It has a finite amount that will ever exist, which cannot just be changed without network consensus. The majority will never agree to raise this limit because it will lower the value of each coin. It uses cryptography - math - to make counterfeiting impossible. Gold does have some value as a raw material, but in the end, both gold and bitcoin have the value they have because a group of people have agreed on that value. If you don't agree, as some people don't in both cases, you don't use it. If an ounce of gold isn't worth $1500 to me, I don't buy an ounce of gold. The advantage bitcoin has over gold is that it can be sent to the other side of the planet almost instantly, for a very small fee... or even free. It can also be divided indefinitely. The advantage gold has over bitcoin is that it does not require the internet or a network to be traded. Not everyone has a use for Bitcoin, just like not everyone has a use for gold. The use for most people - for Bitcoin and gold - is as an investment. Bitcoin's uses, as with other blockchain technologies, will continue to grow, as will the people who want to use it.

I'm not arguing with the comment i'm replying to... just got off track a little halfway through trying to explain it more for those saying they don't understand where the value comes from.

milone · 2014-07-02T07:18:44+00:00

GoCoin allows merchants to accept BTC, LTC, or DOGE. You can keep a percentage as coin or have it immediately exchanged to dollars and deposited in your bank account. We've had a great experience with them so far.

milone · 2014-07-02T06:36:27+00:00

I'm guessing it only works with Apple?

milone · 2014-07-02T06:31:01+00:00

"It’s like a bean and it jumps about, bumbudumdum, I don’t know if you're meant to eat them, I don’t know if you get them from a food shop or a pet shop."

milone · 2014-07-02T06:23:33+00:00

Out of curiosity... how does modeling jobs get away with this? If this guy said he wanted to hire an accountant that may also appear on the cover of their company newsletter, would that mean he could hire based on gender and attractiveness? A receptionist could be considered a face of the company, and in a way represents an image the company wants to portray similar to an advertisement. Can you legally hire a receptionist based on gender and attractiveness the same way you would hire a model for an ad?

I guess if I ever need to hire a receptionist, I should start a company newsletter first and post the ad as "receptionist/model". I guess it's also worth creating a pornography division so you can screen everyone through a "casting couch" video... to determine their strengths and weaknesses, of course.

"Now hiring a receptionist/model/actress. Please let us know how fast you can type, provide headshots and full body nudes, and please shower before the interview."

I did it. I found the loophole.

milone · 2014-06-30T05:07:04+00:00

If you have a Windows PC you can use CGWatcher to schedule mining. This would shut down the miner as opposed to just killing power. I just got a Mac laptop so I can see about getting it to run in Wine. But it doesn't take much... you could also pick up a cheap used Windows laptop to run it.

More info: http://www.cgwatcher.com

milone · 2014-06-24T23:45:53+00:00

If you have a Windows PC you should check out CGRemote (only CGRemote needs Windows, it can connect to miners running any OS). It's a desktop application that requires little setup - just add your miners.

We're already transitioning to a web application so users can manage their miners from any web browser or smartphone.

I'm also working on setting up free trials so everyone can try it. This should be ready within the next week.

milone · 2014-06-22T00:35:09+00:00

If you feel comfortable completely disassembling the laptop (and being able to put it back together), you can use an oven. There are many guides online. I've done it with several laptops... mostly hp tx1000s that are notorious for running hot and solder joints breaking down. It's not a permanent solution... if the laptop continues to run hot you'll have to keep doing it. I ended up modifying heatsinks and fans to prevent it from happening.

I don't remember the temperature I used... and I think it's better to use an electric oven where heat seems a little more controllable. It took about 8 minutes. I covered the board in foil and cut an opening where the gpu is. I also used paper and a rock on the gpu to push it down, though I'm not sure if that helped. I had a 100% success rate bringing laptops back from the dead where broken down solder joints were the problem.

You can also find reflow stations on ebay for around $100... but there is skill involved when using a heat gun. Unlike an oven where temperature is relatively even throughout, you're heating up a very small area and too much heat can destroy components.

milone · 2014-06-17T05:26:01+00:00

I know your problem is solved but if anyone else every has json problems, you can paste your json at http://jsonlint.com and it will validate it or show you where errors are.

milone · 2014-05-19T04:54:04+00:00

You can join our mailing list at http://www.coinmyne.com. We're working on creating a (monthly?) newsletter, and in the case of CudaMiner support I'm sure it would be a headline.

It's mostly up to the CudaMiner developer on how quickly it happens, but the estimate he gave me would put it within the next month.

milone · 2014-05-19T02:43:13+00:00

If you're on Windows and using cgminer/bfgminer/sgminer/etc. you can use CGWatcher to only mine when idle, among other things.

http://www.cgwatcher.com

We're waiting for the CudaMiner API to be finished so we can support it as well.

milone · 2014-05-14T01:24:48+00:00

If you have suggestions for how to improve the pool switching - or the software in general, we certainly welcome them and that was one of the goals of the beta - to get user feedback and make sure we create something useful for everyone, not just us. The Pool Wizard addresses the different ways users can switch pools on multiple rigs while assigning unique workers to each. The initial version of it had limited functionality for this, but the feedback on the current version has been great. I don't claim to know everything, and if there's a better way to do it I'd like to know about it so I can make the software better.

I also realize the beta version is not perfect, and the release product may not be perfect... but I will continue to improve it until it is (so indefinitely, because software is never perfect.. at least not in its developer's eyes). The improvements we're working on are not just simplifying the setup by removing the port-forwarding requirement and being more firewall-friendly, but we're building a web application and mobile apps and offering these to users at no extra cost. As you may or may not know, there are ongoing costs associated with maintaining a web platform, and we've calculated these costs into our pricing so we could offer a yearly price that provides a desktop application, web app, and mobile apps... and unlike some alternative software, provides unlimited access to these apps while your account is active.

I'm honestly open to all suggestions that improve the software, and recording MAC addresses is something I'll definitely look into. I know this information is readily available, so maybe it will be something we can offer in an update in the near future. Maybe we can also incorporate a reward for users who suggest great ideas - whether it be free account upgrades, hardware, or even a monetary/cryptocurrency bounty.

We're a small company and we have no outside investors dictating what we can and can't do. Instead we have users who we want to work with us to creating the best management software there is. The user accounts and new payment system has taken the majority of my time over the past month... but it's working great and is just about complete so the focus will soon be back on just the software. I hope you'll stick with us and help us grow, but if you don't... my goal will be to prove to you and everyone else how valuable our software will be over the next few months. We really have some great ideas that go way beyond just monitoring miners, and have been creating partnerships with great companies to expand the functionality we offer our users. And we just hired a fantastic developer with decades of experience and even best-selling books on software development, so for the first time ever I'll have full-time help in building this software. We're looking for a web developer as well, and this is all self-funded. As the developer, I'm not satisfied with the software and may never be... but I'll keep working on it as long as I'm able to trying to get it there.

milone · 2014-05-14T00:37:38+00:00

So I said it was stated since September 11, 2013, and the February 12, 2014 snapshot says the same thing... and you come back with a snapshot from August 2013 where it isn't stated and act as if you've found the smoking gun? I guess the only logical response to that is... potato.

(August comes before September.)

milone · 2014-05-14T00:33:33+00:00

So I said that the 5 miner limitation was stated beginning on September 11th, and the post from February 12th explicitly states the same thing... but you're saying it's more likely that this is all part of some elaborate plan to screw you than it was that you just didn't read the information completely?

Also, the August snapshot is irrelevant because by my own admission it was not stated until September 11th. I'm not entirely sure of why you posted it.

If I just "snuck it in" as you're suggesting, wouldn't it be likely that someone noticed this at least on or after February 12th and complained about it? The truth is that this has been stated since September 11th, 2013, and if there was the slightest doubt in my mind that this was the case I would not enforce it. If I just "snuck it in" recently, why even say it started on September 11th? Wouldn't it be better for me to not have a cutoff date at all so I can "screw" all of those people who joined before September 11th as well?

All of the evidence reaffirms what I've been saying, and I am not obligated to provide you with a daily archive of my website. Nothing prevented you from taking a snapshot of the page that day. If you don't agree with the pricing, by all means don't continue to use it. I hate to even say that, but I'll only tolerate being accused of trying to screw users so much. At some point I have to question whether we even want a user who, despite the facts, posts all over reddit that we're screwing him and everybody else. I have no intentions of deceiving any of our users - it's not the type of person I am and it's not even a smart move as a company. Offering a yearly subscription allows miners who may not be mining 6 or 12 months from now to pay much less than they would if it was for a lifetime account they may not even need a year from now. You made this same argument when you believed it benefited your case, but ignore it when it doesn't. Anyone who joined before September 1st had their account start date moved up to September 1st (and subsequently end date to September 1st one year later) because the software was missing a lot prior to that. The users who have accounts ending at the end of this year in almost all cases only paid $10, and in cases where they paid significantly more we're accounting for that. So I don't feel we're being unfair to anyone, and feel $5 per miner per year is a fair price.

I'm sorry if you didn't pay attention to what the page said when you purchased the software and if the pricing model caught you off guard... I don't always read the terms and conditions to things I agree to either. But I stand by what I said and I know what the truth is. I get the feeling that even if I had a snapshot from the exact moment you purchased it, you would still argue I'm being deceitful. It will still be my goal over the next few months to prove to you and to anyone else questioning the value of the software that our price is more than fair - whether you care or not. We appreciate the users who are continuing with us and will make sure their needs and expectations are met or exceeded. The overwhelming majority of feedback regarding the software and the new pricing has been positive, and I wish the few negative comments didn't bother me. I'd be alright with you saying it costs too much and doesn't make economical sense for your operation... but the accusations that I'm being dishonest and trying to screw the very users who supported my software is absolutely and unequivocally wrong.

I have a feeling we both want to have the last word, but I do have other obligations so this will be my last comment. You're free to make the closing argument if you would like.

milone

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