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WRT the controversial Max Life - Life Gain Plus 20 Participating Plan . What they don't tell you when signing up is that it will take you 7 years to simply break even — even if you claim the 30% 80c IT deduction. If you don't claim 80c, it will take you 11 years just to break even. That is, to simply get your premium amount back without any interest. They will justify this saying it's because of insurance. But the cost of insurance itself is very low. If you're paying 1.1L premium for 6 years, you get insurance cover of 10L. If you buy just the term insurance instead, that costs less than 10k per year. So in effect, you're investing at least 1L per year. At the end of 7 years with this plan, you will only be given 4.2L back. Even assuming you claimed an 80c deduction of 30k per year for the 6 premiums — for a total of 1.8L — this is a break even of 6L after 7 years. You simply got your money back — after tax deductions and insurance costs — with no interest. Therea...

Importing posts from blogger to Drupal is a piece of cake if you have the feeds module installed. All you need is the common RSS XML parser setting and the field mappings to Drupal's own core blog module. A working importer configuration (which too can be imported) is given here. The node author can be changed here, or in the node processor configuration settings. PS: You can use blogger's backup setting to first export all your posts as an XML file. $feeds_importer = new stdClass(); $feeds_importer->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default feeds_importer disabled initially */ $feeds_importer->api_version = 1; $feeds_importer->id = 'knownexception'; $feeds_importer->config = array( 'name' => 'knownexception', 'description' => 'knownexception', 'fetcher' => array( 'plugin_key' => 'FeedsFileFetcher', 'config' => array( 'allowed_exten...

When I first moved from Windows (ThinkPad) to OSX (MacBook Pro) in 2009, it was a life changing experience. I’ve been a huge fan of Steve Jobs ever since, and am on my third Mac (an Air) now. The Macs were always well worth the higher price tag. But it’s been two months now since I moved from my Google Nexus 5 to an iPhone SE; and even though the SE is newer and costlier than the N5, it under-performs in almost all areas. Just a few things that Androids have had for years, and iPhones still don't: No universal return button No automatic favorites in calls No SMS delivery reports No call blocking No app cache clearing No clear button in blocked contacts Swipe keyboard requires app Downloading videos requires app with payment info Constant network issues Software bugs on every update (too many to list) There have been 3 software updates in the last 2 months, and each one of them has been buggier than the last; with bugs that are quite obvious and visible. Maybe ...

Doesn't seem to be displayed on the site anymore. The link is: www.facebook.com/help/delete_account

Note: The following is an old post written in 2017. The name of the service has been removed since the person who used to run the service seems to have sold the service, presumably to an unsuspecting mark. For those who can recognize the service, it was an Excel-spreadsheet based service called *** ****** ***** . Unfortunately, the preponderance of such scammers online casts a shadow on legitimate financial services. In fact, there is now another service called ***-*** ****** that seems to employ similar tactics; both as observed personally and as reported by others.  - Original Post - There is strong reason to believe that the Value Investing website that calls itself *** ****** ***** is a scam. Some of the most concerning issues seen on the site are: 1. A lot of claims shown on the front page are fraudulent. Some of the referral links lead to nowhere in particular. Most of the other claims are hard to verify. But the claims are made confidently enough to look convincing. Th...

From terminal: cat Duplicates.txt | sort | uniq -c > Counts.txt Within vi: :%sort         // sort the results as required by "uniq" :%!uniq -c   // use the *nix "uniq" tool to prepend counts :%sort!        // sort in reverse order

Linux sendmail sometimes drops emails mysteriously without any error message or log of the written email. /var/log/maillog will show an entries such as: Unauthenticated email from xyz.com is not accepted due to [DMARC] The way to fix this is to have the domain name of the current server in the from field, and the actual from address in the reply-to field. This can easily be done with Drupal 7 using the contact_reply_to module. Drupal 8 does not require the module.

Module pages usually say: "The most complete and up to date documentation is included with the module, in the README.txt file." But the online README.txt files linked to there usually include documentation for unreleased updates. This can cause considerable confusion / unnecessary trouble-shooting when newly installing modules. Always use the README files included with the module, not the ones online.

Regarding the promoted post - xx Here are the top 10 duplicate shares on the post: Lucious White - 28 shares Ako Nai - 17 shares Stephen Schreiber - 17 shares Nathan Musikchild Ray - 9 shares Farakhan Norris - 6 shares Beau Forester - 5 shares Dennis Vinci - 5 shares Bob Holden - 4 shares James Thomas Downey - 4 shares T Donebullshidden Knight - 4 shares These accounts have been observed sharing and liking other promoted posts too. The total list of displayed shares is only 382, even though the displayed count is 1363. Understandably, this is due to private shares. But only 244 of the shares are by unique people. [Support email #2] As you can see, the high bounce rates are only for Facebook clicks. The bounce rates for users from Google, Bing, Yahoo etc are much lower. In any case, my concern is not the high bounce rate in itself. That could be content and context specific. My real concern is the large number of confirmed duplicate shares by certain users....

// The following code will ensure that there are no more than 30 non-cached requests in 60 seconds. // Please adjust the first two variables below in a manner optimal to your server config. // Note that this only protects heavier non cached pages. // A powerful enough attack can even overload your server with requests for cached pages. function hook_init() {     $MinTime = 60;     $MaxAttmpts = 30;     $MyAppDDoSCheckUrl = variable_get('MyAppDDoSCheckUrl');     $TimeCheckNow = time();     if ($MyAppDDoSCheckUrl == '')     {         variable_set('MyAppDDoSCheckUrl',$TimeCheckNow.',1');         return;     }     $SerDDosVars = explode(',',$MyAppDDoSCheckUrl);     $TimeLast = intval($SerDDosVars[0]);     $ReqAttmt = intval($SerDDosVars[1]);        ...

Here's the code for iterating through all fields in a form and setting $element [ '#input_group' ] = TRUE ;     function hook_form_alter ( & $form , $form_state , $form_id ) { if ( $form_id == 'nodetype1_node_form' ) { iterateForm ( $form , 'setIgt' ) ; } } // Generic iterate function. Can be used with any callback. function iterateForm ( & $form , callable $callback ) { foreach ( element_children ( $form ) as $key ) { $element = & $form [ $key ] ; $children = element_children ( $element ) ; if ( empty ( $children ) ) { call_user_func_array ( $callback , array ( & $element , & $key ) ) ; } else { iterateForm ( $element , $callback ) ; } } } // Custom callback function setIgt ( & $element , & $key ) { if ( $element [ '#type' ] == 'textfield' ) $element [ '#input_group' ] = TRUE ; }