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How to get a GNU Bash sticker before 31 Jan 2016?
A few days before Christmas I wrote about the vote for the GNU Bash logo. As it happens, after recording 30,000 votes the winner was announced. The shiny logo on the right, and also my favorite, made...
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Panel discussion, the Start-up scene in Mauritius
I received a tweet by Sten Tamkivi by late December and his quest for knowing more about start-ups in Mauritius took a serious turn when S. Moonesamy triggered that discussion on the Mauritius Internet...
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Staging app on gov portal publicly accessible
A staging platform in the ICT terminology is one where developers/sysadmins usually test an application. Staging is also called the pre-production environment, since application changes after...
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Twitter down right now
It’s 12h26 in Mauritius and Twitter appears to be down right now. The official Twitter App page on Facebook has it’s latest post dated 14 January 2016. Meanwhile comments notifying the Twitter downtime...
View ArticleIsh Sookun detained by police
We, friends of Ish Sookun have learned that Ish Sookun has been detained by the police on Saturday 23rd January 2016 at around 5:00 PM from his house and is due to appear in court on Sunday 24th...
View ArticleIsh Sookun at Bail and Remand Court, 24th January 2016
Ish Sookun appeared before the Bail and Remand Court where he was provisionally charged with two counts under the Prevention Of Terrorism Act (POTA). He spoke briefly with friends and family who were...
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Parlment Populaire shows support to Ish Sookun
L’informaticien Ish Sookun a été arrêté hier, samedi 23 janvier 2016 dans le cadre de l’enquête sur le courriel de menaces terroristes sur l’île Maurice. Il a été interrogé pendant 6 heures de temps...
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Ish helping children at Nicolay Government School in 2014
Ish is the passionate volunteer who happily gave his expertise and time to help set up an experimental computer lab at Nicolay Government School, so that the less fortunate children of Mauritius can...
View ArticleI love you #Mauritius
Dear all, I have no words to express my gratitude towards the citizens who showed unconditional love & support to me and my family. My life was brought down to the ground on mere suspicion without...
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Workshop on Model Law Access to Information
It’s the second workshop around the subject “Freedom of Information” that I attended within less than six months. The first being last December by the United States Embassy. I arrived at Saint Georges...
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Padyatra, Kanwar Yatra or Ratha Yatra?
There has been much controversy regarding the size, color, type and definition of Kanwar (कांवड़) during the past few days as we celebrate the great night of Lord Shiva, Maha Shivratri, on 7 March...
View ArticleThe practice of “provisional charge” in Mauritius
I was arrested on the night of 23rd January 2016 and detained for 10 days by the Police of Mauritius. I was brought to court three times during the ten days and yet at non a single moment Police...
View ArticleHumiliation of the Mauritius Police Force. Seriously?
Recently a video of a Police officer made buzz on the social networks. The video showed the officer acting in a strange way that would prompt any individual thinking him to be under the influence of...
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Build a personal wiki using Vim
I used to have random notes in text files scattered on the disk. Then I tried being an organized person by using things like Google Docs… but, after some time I would find myself coming back to the...
View ArticleMinistry of Public Infrastructure database hacked remotely, Minister says.
I read an article on lexpress.mu today that mentioned the Minister of Public Infrastructure saying a database of the ministry was “hacked”. The article is accompanied by a video in which we see the...
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Customizing the GNOME Shell
A couple of weeks back I was customizing the GNOME Shell on my openSUSE Tumbleweed laptop by tinkering with the CSS files of the desktop theme. A colleague of mine who peeked onto my screen at that...
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University of Mauritius charges fee for email password reset
I saw a public post on Facebook that shared the photo of a receipt from University of Mauritius which appeared to show a fee charged for resetting the student email password. The amount mentioned is Rs...
View ArticleThe double standards
I know the pain of being separated from your family, not knowing whether you will see them anytime soon. Trust that I do not wish people to ever have to spend even a single moment in a Police cell,...
View ArticleLinux: convert column to row when needed
I was configuring a Linux server and it required me to install the same list of PHP 7 packages that were installed on a different server running Ubuntu. Installed packages on Debian based Linux...
View ArticleopenSUSE debug repository
I am running openSUSE Leap 42.1 in a Vagrant box and while I had to debug a small executable file, I came across a message prompting me to install the glibc-debuginfo-2.19-19.1.x86_64 package. (gdb)...
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