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How I managed my more than 3 years old router TP Link Archer V7 without discarding it

 I am a permanent user of TP Link brand from the time I started using internet from around 2007 onwards. I find the Tp link routers best for home and small and medium office usage. the systems dont get heated uo quickly and easy to use interface. Now higher end versions like INR 2000+ models have mesh, VPN and cloud management support which can be controlled via Tplink android app, which is quite nice for system administrators in office as well as person who is managing and troubleshoot their home router on the go. I am using multiple IOT device(IR blaster,smart plug from oakter), mobile and amazon fire TV Stick, computers connected to this router. The router has 2 bandwidths 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. It has openvpn which is an opensource VPN module and you can run the router as a server for this VPN and all connected device which is capable of installing the client application of openvpn server. I got a good Norton antivirus deal for 1 Pc 3 years license for roughly INR 1500. But as per gove

Experience of my latest Alipore Zoo visit on January 2023

 I visited Alipore Zoo on 16th January 2023. It was a monday and the midst of ongoing Ganga Sagar mela. I was searching on the the internet if online ticket booking is possible or not.So, yes it is but I physically booked ticket from the counter. If you buy ticket online, you will need to pay GST extra on the ticket. Adult (children >5 years) ticket price is INR 50/ person and children <5 years age is INR 20. Online ticket is avaiable on  https://kolkatazoo.in   and https://eticketaliporezoo.com/ . Since, online ticketing was not advertised by government so much, i was sceptical about fraud websites. Anyways when I reached the ticket counter I was asked if I had online ticket which confirmed that the e-ticket facility was genuine and you can avoid the hassle of standing in a queue. Due to Ganga sagar Mela possibly they had removed the parking facility from and around the immediate Zoo location and parking anywhere around is INR 200 irrespective of time you are parked there. Post

Yashoda Telegu Movie Review

 The movie is very much realistic and based on stem cell treatment to reverse ageing using stem cells extracted from human foetuses. the movie is without any song, at least the version I say on amazon prime had no songs in it. I saw it with Hindi dubbing and the dubbing was good, it didnt feel outof place. It showed how the desire to stay beautiful and relevant, supported with political power and misplaced medical ethics led to the development of a statewide secret organization with its front face as a cosmetics company. However, in the back end the company was anonymously procuring poor women of child bearing age to become surrogate mothers and taking them to an underground secret facility until they are artificially induced with pain and killed and the foetuses are extracted and stored for stem cell harvesting which are then sold as age reversal treatments to rich people globally. Initially, the film appeared like a surrogacy scam where surrogate mothers were killed in operation thea

Movie Review: Ram Setu

The movie starts with a very unimpressive scene. Anyways I heard the theme was interesting so I kep watching. It showed taliban attacking an archeological site of Aryan Kulsrestha (Hindu) supported by Pakistanis and the afghan army is defending it. Now! if we put it correctly, Taliban were holed up until the US left and had no ground control. India had more presence and hold in Afghanistan than Pakistan, even now when Taliban has taken over the place. It is also shown than the spoils of the excavation site were taken into pakistan where a press conference of all pakistani press was hailing INdo-Pak brotherhood theme. Aryan Kulasrestha is shown as an aethiest and a nerd, with unshaven face like Viru Sahashra budhddhi ( Movie - 3 idiots). Then it is shown that the government in alliance with an industrialist - all of them Hindus collaborate with destroy a part of Ram setu on Indian side to allow shipping passage, for which they were fighting court case in supreme court. Here also we see

A Bengali's Review: ponniyin selvan movie part 1

 I had the opportunity of wathing this movie and I heard that this movie is a movie adaptation of a novel from the same name. The movie is worth watching and has a very engaging and complicated plot of trechery and shifting alliance alongside obedience and faithfulness. Moreover, it carried a strong undercurrent of being nationalistic and to rise above personal aspirations and the be part of the national missio, vision and value. Just the ingredients missing among the wokes of India presently. Anyways! I wouuld like to divided the the Movie into different logical segments that I identified:  Equal Rights for Women In the chola dynasty Woemn had say in affairs of politics, foreign policy and family negotiations and policy making. The Chola Emperor is seen taking advice from his daughter in the absence of his 2 sons. The same princess is seen to be coming in a room full of "male" Cheftains who were supposedly plotting to overthrow her father and breaking their plot through a co

Sustainability of Youtubers as a Life Long Profession: Focus on Travel Vloggers, Moto Vloggers

 Youtubing has now become a formal profession and somewhat respected too because of the quick cash part possibly. I dont have any personal experience how much quick cash and how sustainable is it as a "career". I am sometimes quite appalled to see videos where women bathing is part of youtube and for obvious reasons garner high views, may not be subscriptions. The aforesaid example is a very extreme end of the scale, I believe. However, I am very much intrigued by travel vloggers and Moto vloggers which is a high investment work compared to shooting inside your home making funny memes or even shooting your own bathing videos and posting them on youtube as life vlogs. The first travel vlogger I started following was Mr. Varun Vagish / Mountain trekker channel. Although initially I didnt learn about his personal life or profession but he carried a sophisticated aura of an educated soft spoken person with deep insight and thought fullness in his travel approach. This is possibly

2022 Movie Review: Rocketry The Nambi Effect

 I saw the movie in its original language 2 days back on amazon prime. The movie wonderfully depicted the work life and contribution and suffering Nambi Narayan faced socially, career-wise, family life and criminal proceedings. The movie scores very low in woke score. It doesnt insult Hindu customs and traditions in any way. It also highlights patriotism, self respect of an educated man and his genius in moving India from solid state fuel to liquid fuel. Building/assembling knocked down unit of 2 Russian cryogenic engines without any user manual and guidance. The movie starts with Sanskrit shloka and in the movie it has been shown that Nambi Narayan is both science minded and traditional in terms of practicing Hindu customs, traditional dresses. Much of the story is revealed in the form of an interview which Mr. Nambi Narayan is giving in a TV show. Towards the end the character of Nambi Narayan played by ace actor Madhavan transforms into actual Nambi Narayan who does a guest appearan