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Is the drugs situation alarming in Mauritius?
I was going through news articles on lexpress.mu this morning and my attention was caught by two articles that spoke about drugs seized in Mauritius. Image source: pexels.com One mentioned heroin worth...
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Mauritius: Drones, 27 Km no-fly zone from the airport
On the 6th June 2016 the Government of Mauritius website published about upcoming amendments in the Civil Aviation Regulations. The post does not provide much detail about the regulations. Since then...
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Physical to Virtual Machine conversion
I was working on a decade old server that runs an Industrial Linux by Siemens and I could not resist taking a picture when I saw the vintage LILO bootloader appearing. The ageing server would be...
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LEAD Summit 2016
Folks at the University of Mauritius organized the LEAD Summit 2016. I received an invitation to talk about Creativity and Innovation. Those have been trendy words in recent times; while last year we...
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MRA E-filing 2016, when the postal service becomes faster than email
My colleagues and I were discussing about tax e-filing today as the deadline of 30 September 2016 is approaching. Previously, the Mauritius Revenue Authority would allow tax payers to file their...
View ArticleFailed to mount folders in Linux guest, “vboxsf” file system is not available?
Vagrant is one of the preferred tools of my developer colleagues. Previously I wrote about exporting & importing Vagrant boxes. Today one of my colleagues pinged me regarding a broken Vagrant box...
View ArticlePHP: Segfault at « some memory address » error 6 in libpcre.so.1.2.1
Nginx FastCGI configuration was good, the file permissions all good and PHP-FPM was running fine. Yet loading the web page would only give me “file not found”. Really? The file was there, I could see...
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Twitter transparency report: No request received from Mauritius
Yesterday Twitter released its transparency report on government requests for data related to user accounts. I had a look at the report to see whether or not any request was made from Mauritius by the...
View ArticleCSS/JavaScript changes not appearing in Vagrant
The past week we had this annoying issue of CSS and JavaScript changes not appearing when served from a Vagrant box. Clearing browser cache wouldn’t help but renaming the file did show the latest...
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Women in Tech conference in Mauritius
Women in Tech conference happened yesterday at L’Aventure du Sucre and the Africa Leadership College. Shelly was invited as panelist for the discussion on “how technology is driving rising Africa?”....
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Why does it smell so bad in part of Roche Bois?
Going through Roche Bois is part of my daily life. I work at LSL Digital which is situated in an industrial zone at Baie du Tombeau. Before I can reach office I have to go through the Motorway M2...
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UNESCO inscribes Bhojpuri folk songs, Geet Gawai, as Intangible Cultural...
On December 1st 2016, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed Bhojpuri songs from Mauritius known as “Geet Gawai”, to the representative list of the...
View ArticleWhy haven’t police officers returned my laptops yet?
On the third day of Infotech last year I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad E440. I always wanted to own one but sadly ThinkPads are not often sold in the local computer shops; if they do they might only have...
View ArticlePolice gain unnecessary power with amendments in the Prevention of Terrorism...
It’s as if the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2002 was not strict enough, that now, the Prime Minister, Sir Anerood Jugnauth favours additional powers be given to police. The most worrying part is the...
View Article2016: Achievements of the ICT Authority
I have on numerous occasions requested and asked for the annual reports of the Information & Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA). I never received them and it seems to be not an issue of...
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Ganga Talao
Like every year, we went to Ganga Talao on the first day of the year, that is yesterday. While it’s certainly peaceful to spend the first hours praying with the family, it was not comfortable yesterday...
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MSCC, Code & Coffee 2017
It’s been a long time since I attended any Code & Coffee meetup by the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community. As the Developers Conference is nearing, I stopped by Bagatelle Mall today to have...
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World Health Organization reports on Ambient Air Pollution
An article by zinfos974.com went viral on social networks as the title said « Une ville de Maurice parmi les 500 villes les plus polluées du monde ». No wonder with words such as “most polluted cities”...
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Digital Night Mauritius 2017
Digital Night – it’s the name of the first «tech» event of 2017 in Mauritius. This event aims to bring forth two days of festive moment all while accentuating on career prospects in the tech industry...
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Internet in Mauritius, from simple metric to deceptive advertising
I’m an internet user from the late 90’s. I was a teenager and after getting inconvenient surprises when the telephone bill would arrive I told my father that we should probably opt for an internet...
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