Month: September 2015

Healthcare cost in the US

I occasionally rant about stuff that is just unfair and this is one of those moments – so why does it cost so much in the US for healthcare? I mean it’s quite a lot for the same treatment when you compare against India where I have personally experienced paying for healthcare. Here’s an example. In 2013, I experienced sever pain due to kidney stone and ended up going to ER. I stayed there for …

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Send emails when torrent is done – Windows & uTorrent

Here’s a snippet of PHP code to help you send emails from Windows machine when a torrent has downloaded through uTorrent.I am using Outlook.com to send and receive email but you can easily use GMail or any other internet mail service. You will need PHPMailer class $argOpts = “n:e:”;$argVal = getopt($argOpts);$torrent_name = $argVal[‘n’];$to_email = $argVal[‘e’];require(“phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php”);$mail = new PHPMailer();$mail->Username = “Your outlook.com username”;$mail->Password = “Your outlook.com password”;$mail->Host = “smtp-mail.outlook.com”;$mail->Port = 587;$mail->IsSMTP();$mail->SMTPSecure=”tls”;$mail->SMTPAuth = true;$mail->setFrom(“From address”, “From name”);$mail->addReplyTo(“Reply …

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