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doha.ac.mu allowing download of copyrighted ebooks
I came across some copyrighted materials on the website of doha.ac.mu. I was surprised to see copyrighted ebooks on computing lurking under the web address of an educational institution (based on the...
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Fiber To The Home: The Town vs The Village
In a recent press conference, Orange Mauritius announced its plan for accelerating FTTH deployment. Accelerate? The word is inappropriate. Let’s see why. I went on MyT La Fibre website to see by when...
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World Telecommunication & Information Society Day 2015
I attended a workshop by the National Computer Board on the theme “Telecommunications and ICTs: Drivers of innovation”. I represented the Linux User Group of Mauritius. Though the workshop was...
View ArticleWebCup Mauritius 2015
The WebCup Mauritius 2015 competition happened during the weekend of 23/24 May 2015. I did not attend the event but I had a look at some of the websites created during the competition. I shared my...
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riverhouse.mu compromised!!
It is advised that one applies the required patches and update the plugins/themes when a website runs on a CMS, such as WordPress, Drupal or Joomla. WordPress has been recently hit by a serious of...
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The Minion Birthday Cake
Last Thursday we celebrated a colleague, Ubaid Nujjoo’s birthday. The surprise was doubled for him when her sister informed that she can make a birthday cake for him. That was perfect. Instead of us...
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Wrong photo of Mauritian President on Yahoo News
This week was marked by the stepping down of Mauritian President Kailash Purryag and the ascension of world-renowned biologist Mrs Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as the first woman to occupy the post of President...
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Biometric ID Card, new questions evolving…
Alain Bertrand posted some questions on my Facebook wall asking for my opinion regarding the new decisions about the Mauritius National Identity Card. To make the same available to a larger audience I...
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Getting the job done with Vim
Last Friday, Cyril pinged for an after-office beer party. It’s all legitimate for a Friday evening :-) At my workplace I in-turn bugged Kaviraj, a networking fellow who enjoys the usual geek talks. We...
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Mauritius, Open Data readiness assessment
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a World Bank officer with regards to an Open Data readiness assessment in Mauritius. Like me, several other folks from local user groups had been contacted. As days...
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Code of Ethics, Civil Service, Mauritius
I found on the Civil Service website, a document titled Code of Ethics for Public Officers. It is a beautiful document that would make you dream of the perfect service when visiting a government...
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Are email addresses case sensitive?
I have an openSUSE email alias. When I write down the email address, most of the time, I put the “suse” part capitalized to preserve the correct lettering of openSUSE. Domain names are case...
View ArticleMailing list netiquette
This netiquette is a recommendation of how to write messages to mailing lists that are easy to read, reduce the amount of text and number of messages, help mutual understanding and avoid flames. Much...
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Configure NNTP for openSUSE forums in Thunderbird
The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol that transports Usenet news articles from news servers to client applications. One such client is Thunderbird and some time ago...
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Domain names vs Facebook pages
I was looking at Lenovo laptop models online and I needed the prices as well as the availability on the local market. My first instinct, I checked at fastclick.mu, then had a look a kleek.mu. A friend...
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Fine tune your search with Google search operators
Google is used by many to look for information on the Internet. The most basic search method is typing a word or a bunch of words in the Google textbox and hitting the search button. The words that we...
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Re-configure touchpad after KDE Plasma 5 installation in openSUSE
I installed KDE Plasma 5 on my openSUSE 13.2 machine. Aww. That looks quite sleek & I adore the classic menu. After a long time using both Gnome 3 (on various distros) and Unity, I am appreciating...
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LinkDev developers could access your govmu.org account
A few weeks ago while I attended a Telecom Workshop, I publicly reported several glitches that appear on the mobile version of the Mauritian Government Web Portal. I was told that I should report it to...
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Mauritians hit by MCB IB phishing again
Fellow blogger, Yasir Auleear, wrote today about a phishing email that he received. He shared the email header and we can see the message originated from www.pan.mr and not mcb.mu. Image courtesy,...
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Is the Ask.com toolbar a malware?
Last week during discussions on the Mauritius Internet Users mail list about the Ask.com toolbar to behave like malware, S. Moonesamy mentioned he installed the toolbar and when removed it remained...
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