OnePlus 2 Indian users : Please don’t install Oxygen OS 3.5.5 OTA.

Firstly the good news, OnePlus has started rolling out VoLTE support for OnePlus2 in Oxygen OS 3.5.5. The OTA has reached a very few customers in India till now and that means that it is very less likely that you might have updated your device.

If not then let me tell you this, there are network issues in this OTA which will render your phone useless. You will face signal drops more than twice every minute and you won’t be able to place any calls or use data. If you are using Jio then you are going to face this problem for sure. I updated my phone last night by downloading the ROM from their website and started facing the problems. So please wait till OnePlus releases a fix.

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I am ashamed of this.

Uttar Pradesh is my hometown and trust me it’s the worst place to be if you are woman. This is not exaggeration in any sense, I am being generous when I say bad.

Recently a video got viral on social media in which we can see a few men assaulting a woman. I don’t care why the fight broke out. I don’t care about who was right and who was wrong. 2 men beating up a woman in broad daylight with sticks, wow, that’s the law and order we are talking about in Uttar Pradesh. Continue reading →

Software Defined Networking. What is it and why do we need it?

Over the past few decades computing has advanced very fast but networking has not kept pace with it. Traditional networks have become very closed and proprietary. The devices like routers and switches which run the Internet have become very complex because of the overly complex distributed protocols run by them. Continue reading →

If you drive responsibly then do you suck at driving? Not really.

Today while driving back from Koramangala to Electronic City I was mocked by a friend of mine for driving slow (For the record, I was driving at above 80 kmph on a road which had a speed limit of 80kmph, and by the way no one cares about the speed limit in India ). I was amazed by the fact that it was so difficult for him to understand the fact that there’s a line between being a good driver and being a stupid driver. It saddens me how I have been mocked so many times for lecturing people regarding road safety. In India, we are taught to neglect road safety everyday. Continue reading →