Would residential Smart Cities benefit our economy?
I read a report by Dr Honita Coowaloosur on the Chinese Presence in Real Estate in South Africa and Mauritius, which is available online at the Chinese Centre for Studies. Chapter four of the report,...
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Setting up a quiet auto-update for openSUSE
I was having a discussion about openSUSE with a colleague when he questioned me on software updates that just run silently in the background. I replied that yes, it’s possible, in fact on the command...
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World Innovation Day celebrated by the Mauritius Research Council
The Mauritius Research Council (MRC) organized a full-day seminar on Innovation and Technopreneurship to commemorate the International Day for Creativity and Innovation. I received an email on the 13th...
View ArticleSamba ‘libauthkrb5’ library breaks several apps
This morning I could not launch SMPlayer as it would complain about a ‘relocation error’. smplayer: relocation error: /usr/lib64/samba/libauthkrb5-samba4.so: symbol tevent_req_is_unix_error, version...
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ThinkPad and the love story
In 1992 IBM introduced a tablet computer called the ThinkPad. IBM president, Thomas J. Watson in the early 1910’s would often use the word «think» in order to inspire and motivate employees. Then in...
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WebCup Mauritius 2016
The Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation along with its partners MITIA, OTAM, CCIFM, EDS, BPML, Orange and sponsors Checkout.com, ICT.io, Esokia Web Agency, Prodigious Brand Logistics,...
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World Telecommunications & Information Society Day 2016
The World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD) is celebrated on the 17th of May. Every year the National Computer Board organizes a seminar on the occasion and there are presentations...
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Developers Conference 2016 – Day 1
The Developers Conference 2016 kicked off today with a keynote address by Jochen Kirstätter. I reached Voilà Hotel just a few minutes late, didn’t miss much of the opening ceremony. Jochen was still...
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DevConMru 2016, day 2 – Linux Installfest
It was Saturday morning and I found myself rushing to be at Flying Dodo just in time. Oh, to be precise «not in time» but like 15 mins later than I expected to be, that is 09h45. The night before I got...
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Developers Conference 2016, day 3 with openSUSE bug hunting
I had my «openSUSE bug hunting» presentation scheduled at 09h30 this morning. I’m usually very lazy on Sundays but the enthusiasm of the Developers Conference is just an amazing feeling. Though we live...
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Vagrant box export and import
I’ve been a VirtualBox user for a few years but I started working with Vagrant only recently. Vagrant provides an easy-to-use portable environment on top of virtual machine providers like VirtualBox,...
View ArticleRecompiling VirtualBox kernel module, NOT. It has been packaged.
I installed Virtualbox from the official openSUSE repositories but the latter failed to start any virtual machine. I recall the post-install script failing to add the root account to the `vboxusers`...
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KDE Advanced Text Editor
Customizing KDE could actually be fun, I didn’t realize it when my fellow developer colleague told me that, at least not till I actually started customizing bits and pieces of the desktop. Fun happened...
View ArticleA handy rsync command
I just needed to find files that aren’t older than 30 days and sync them. While I was thinking for combining find, rsync and the xargs commands, it turned out that all of the operation can be done from...
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National Innovation Framework
The Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation organized a workshop on the National Innovation Framework yesterday at the BPML Conference Hall, Cyber Tower I, Ebene. The National Innovation...
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Digital Transformation Conference
LINKBYNET Mauritius and Amazon Web Services organized a conference on digital transformation today at Voilà Hotel, Bagatelle. I attended the conference with my developer colleagues from LSL Digital. As...
View ArticleLive music band at Jumbo Riche Terre
I was out for lunch with colleagues and I had just parked the car at Jumbo Riche Terre. I could hear some music echoing and I looked around. Thought there must be some event where loud music was...
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Paneer Frankie at Khansama Indian Dhaba
Paneer was not much known in Mauritius when I was a kid. Over the years, the «Indian cheese» got very popular and can now be seen as served even during wedding dinners, receptions etc. Much of its...
View ArticleDo the Cyber Crime investigators operate blindly in Mauritius?
While doing some internet-related search this evening I stumbled on the «Government Requests Reports» by Facebook. The report, as the name suggests, is a compilation of requests made by various...
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Google updates transparency report. No request from Mauritius.
Previously I wrote about the transparency report by Facebook and questioned the investigation methods of the Mauritius Police. The latter had no recourse to Facebook data as evidence in court in the...
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