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You can now follow “His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama Of Tibet” on twitter. The twitter account is managed by “OHHDL” ,The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. If you are like me then peace is the only thing you wish. To me, religion, color, race, status in society don’t mean anything. They are just reasons that fuel hatred today and are being leveraged but those in power to stay in power or gain more power. NO GOD WILL ASK TO KILL!! HE WHO CREATES WILL NOT DESTROY, HE WHO IS FILLED WITH HATRED WHO DESTROYS. ...

Was helping a friend fix his php script today. He was not too sure about what “dirname(__FILE__)” did. dirname() is a PHP function which returns the directory name of a file. For example if file abc.txt was in “/tmp/abc.txt” then the dirname() function would return “/tmp” . Example Usage; <?php $file = “/tmp/abc.txt”; $path = dirname($file); // $path will now contain /tmp ?> What does dirname(__FILE__) and basename(dirname(__FILE__)) do then? The __FILE__ constant represents the running script. It will return the full path and file name of the running script. For example, the __FILE__ constant on my server would return “/var/www/html/index.php” for my index.php file which is in the “/var/www/html/” directory. ...

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Protocol major versions differ: 1 vs. 2. The error above normally comes up when you try to ssh into a machine which has it’s allowed ssh protocol versions locked down to a single version, today it’s normally version 2. In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file there’s a “Protocol” parameter which governs the allowed protocol version. It’s normally set to “2” for better security today. Old days; #Protocol 2,1 Today; #Protocol 2 The ssh command allows you to specify a protocol version to use when establishing a connection. ...

India is commonly related to having a high number of IT professionals. Most of them get pulled into big firms like Google, MS and many others. But the hard truth is that there are still millions who have no access to the Internet or have never even heard of it. Google put together “The Internet Bus Project”. It’s bringing the internet to those who need it through an internet-enabled bus which will travel through India.Children are gonna have new ambitions, businesses will gain new windows and schools have new materials. Well, the bus will not fix everything but at least set a direction. It’s better to have a dream then to not have one at all. ...