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Host Laravel in Apache Shared Hosting
Want to host a Laravel application in a shared hosting server, but can’t figure out how to point the domain to the public directory?
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Fix Ubuntu Locales Error
Just installed Ubuntu, ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to encounter a “perl: warning: Setting locale failed.” error?
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“npm start” Doesn’t Work?
If you just cloned a project that uses npm start to compile and run itself, and it doesn’t run, but throws an error about lite-server (Or something like that), being not available, try installing following NodeJS packages globally.
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How to freely and properly store your photos in Google Drive
It has been quite a time since Google allowed us to store our photos in Google Photos for free. They recently increased the size of the photos that can be stored for free to 16 Mega Pixels. When they announced that, I decided to back up all my photos to Google Photos. The best thing…
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I installed Windows 10: It’s good, but I’ll use Ubuntu
As with many in Sri Lanka, my first OS was a pirated copy of Windows. It was a copy of Windows XP and like most, I still remember it’s product key by heart (QW4HD-DQCRG-HM64M-6GJRK-8k83T. I didn’t Google this, I swear.). I know many others who perfectly remember this exact product key. But soon after I…
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I Said Goodbye to AnyDO for Google Inbox
I have been using AnyDO since more than a year to plan my tasks. I infact wrote an article in TechDome encouraging others to start using it. Recently, AnyDO introduced a paid plan for their service — with which I am totally cool. I don’t care about paid plans, as long as the free option is enough for me…
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Identity Spoofing and How to Protect Yourself from It.
Identity spoofing is the act of someone or an organization sending messages to one or more people (”victims”), appearing as a third party. This third party is most often a trusted person or an organization to the victims, making the victims believe that the content of the message is true and correct. But most of…
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Texts From Your Contacts May Actually be Not From Them!
Beware that there are ways to send text messages, making them appear as they were sent from someone else’ number!
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Mobitel, double check your printed material OR educate employees about your products!
Remember the time I wrote about how Mobitel won’t tell me the correct details about Plum Switch, instead their Matara branch, twitter account and customer care told me different things? Well, sadly, that time of the year has come again! Without any ado, here’s the email I sent to info@mobitel.lk: