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My experience with OYO rooms | Review/Rant

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>> Final Update #6 (20th May'16) After all this fiasco, what did I learn? In India, despite being a startup, no one likes to follow the process. Whether you are applying for a Govt ID, or you want to surrender a postpaid connection or if you want to complain against a mishap. Unless and until you make noise on social channels or use a medium which may trigger bad PR for the company, generally no one cares. If you are a reader of BitSnapper from a long time, you can obseve the same pattern at my post for Den Boomband, Royal Enfield, MTNL and MTS. This platform was supposed …

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11.22.63 – Bringing JFK back from the dead | *ing James Franco

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#NoSpoiler #Review Time Travel! Those who are a regular visitor of bitsnapper knows about my love for Sci-Fi content especially when it comes to breaking the law of the time. Today, I bring you one of the most interesting mini TV-series I have seen in a while (after Fargo): 11.22.63 The first time I saw the title of this show, I simply assumed that it's an IP address of some kind (we nerds?!). I totally skipped over the cast and the excerpt of the show. But one fine day, I was surfing the depth of internet and my eye caught something about 11.22.63 and James franco! Well, let me …

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Royal Enfield HIMALAYAN | Test Ride | Initial impressions

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Bike tested - Royal Enfield Himalayan Price OTR Delhi - ₹1,73,800 After a long period of waiting with anticipation, finally, last week I got a call from Royal Enfield showroom to take out their all new Himalayan for a spin. I picked up the key of my Classic 500, took along Harpreet to see what the fuss is all about with this new adventure tourer. For those who don't know, The Royal Enfield Himalayan was banned and not available for sale in Delhi immediately after its launch as the bike didn't meet the Bharat Stage IV emission norms. Here why: Beginning 1st April 2016, the Delhi …

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ONE RIDE 2016 | Delhi Edition | Saket-Faridabad-Kapashera

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One Thought; One Feeling; One Love for the Royal Enfield! What is One Ride? Well, one day a year in April, thousands of Royal Enfield motorcyclists across the world celebrate their collective passion by riding out in large numbers. It is a day of great camaraderie and unity as the roads come alive with generations of Royal Enfields and their owners who are bound by a pure, almost childlike joy of freedom and the smell of gas and leather (~gearheads). A huge part of riding is about the respect and enjoying the two-wheeled bond with friends. Find great riding experiences in the company …

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Project #3: Create a PirateBox (BitTorrent) | Raspberry Pi 2

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Hello Folks, It's been a while since I posted a new Raspberry Pi project. Well, to be honest, I got busy with a few new gaming titles and was in a quest to finish them. Now that I am back to DIY mind, I will be sharing how can we create an always on BitTorrent PirateBox (pirate for name sake) :P Despite my rant in past about how BitTorrent as we know it is dying, We all love torrents (legit or not). But most of the times when one wants to download a huge OS Live disc image like Ubuntu Server or maybe even Kali Linux when size is in a couple of Gigabytes, we have to leave a PC/Laptop …

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