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How to Remove Limited Access from your Paypal Account

PaypalAfter PayPal announcement that they’re now offers account balance withdrawals to Visa-branded credit,
debit, or prepaid cards in 26 international markets (Indonesia is one of the 26 international markets), I take the opportunity to get my PayPal account verified. I used my credit card-Mega Visa- to get the expanded number and PayPal charges US$ 1.95 to get this.

The verification process itself just need a simple step, just log into PayPal, follow their instruction wizard and you got verified.

The problem occurred while trying to withdraw my money from Text-Link-Ads earning into my credit card. I try once and two and it’s all finished with the statement : Limited Access, please contact PayPal !

I checked my inbox and found the email with subject "Notification of Limited Account Access".

Dear Muhammad Rivai,

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding your account.

Our system requires further account verification.

Case ID Number: PP-XXX-XXX-XXX

For your protection, we have limited access to your account until
additional security measures can be completed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

To review your account and some or all of the information that PayPal used to make its decision to limit your account access, please visit the Resolution Center. If, after reviewing your account information, you seek further clarification regarding your account access, please
contact PayPal by visiting the Help Center and clicking "Contact Us".

As described in their email, I tried to locate the Resolution center and found no related information regarding my problem. I change my internet connection to get the better speed (because I don’t want connection loss while trying to withdraw my account) but there is nothing.

About 2 or 3 days ago I read Maseko blog post about this kind problem. I contacted and asked him, how to get lifted from the limited access. Maseko said that he just provide bill statement and the Personal Identification Number (KTP).

Accidentally, yesterday I got the problem with my password so I decided to clear my cookies, password, cache, browsing history and all of my personal data at Firefox browser. After navigating to PayPal account, I found the instruction how to get lifted from my limited access.

I tried to scanned and sent my credit card account statement but after about 4 hours, I got the reply from Paypal informing that they still need some proper document regarding my address. I think it’s okay because my credit card statement provided different address rather than my home address. Currently, I used my office address to credit card statement :-)

I tried the second chance, scanned my phone bill statement (Xplor Mega Data) and my personal identification number.

I think I will wait for the review within 3 business days, but today I got the confirmation mail (in same day after provided the documents. I uploaded the documents at 10.00 am and the confirmation mail received at 12.00 am) informing me that my PayPal account has been restored.

Your PayPal Account Access Has Been Restored !

Dear Muhammad Rivai,

Our review is complete and we have restored your account.

We appreciate your patience and thank you for your help in making PayPal
the safest and most trusted online payment solution.

Sincerely,
PayPal

Haha, afraid that this only a joke, I tried to sent a donation to my close friend, and it work flawlessly. Thanks PayPal.

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OpenSUSE 10.3 Installation on MacMini (ppc)

This article dedicated to Macnoto :-)

Mac Mini
The Mac mini is the smallest desktop computer made by Apple Inc. MacMini is quite small for a desktop computer: 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) wide, 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) deep, and 2 inches (5.1 cm) tall. It weights 2.9 pounds (1.31 kg).

Currently, MacMini bundled with Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, including an applications, such as:

  • Cover Flow
  • Quick Look
  • Stacks
  • Time Machine
  • Mail
  • iChat
  • Safari
  • Spaces

But, could we have another OS installed in MacMini? With OpenSUSE 10.3, the answer is Yes.

OpenSUSE weekly news reported that the only problem on installation is about Partitioner versus Bootloader issues.

The complete installation process with the screenshots and some installation note can be found in the OpenSUSE Wiki.

Why we still need to install Linux distro into our Mac ? Well, it’s always about the choice :-)

Best Community Linux ?

eWeek.com has published an article with the provocative title :-) "And the Best Community Linux Is…". For you who want to see which one the better Linux distro, maybe this is the simple summary from the article :

Fedora is the bleeding edge techie distro
Ubuntu (predictably) is the Joe User distro
OpenSUSE apparently the really good business distro

best-linux-distro ?It’s means that there is nothing about the best distro, one-size-fits-all distribution. Choosing the better distro most likely choose the good wife. Everyone has different needs with different requirements and different taste. Did you need to know about Katuranggan of the Linux Distro ? :-P

As I said in the previous post, the advantages of this article is the facts that Linux Desktop reasonably more mature, offering fairly polished and stable desktops, not only with three distro above but with another best Linux distro : PCLinuxOS, Mandriva, Debian, etc.

If we talked locally in Indonesia, maybe there is about 10 to 15 percent of Linux market share. 85% of it’s market share is Windows and Mac, so, the opportunity of each Linux distro to increase their market share is very impressive.

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