Posted in Computing, Mauritius, tagged Facebook, facebook applications, Mauritius on September 29, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Everybody seems to be talking about Facebook these days and Mauritius is not the exception.
Navigating through the network (of friends) I even managed to see the profile of Navin Ramgoolam - proof below (seems that someone is taking the mickey out of our Prime Minister, Paul Beranger & Anerood Jugnauth - unless I’m completely mistaken [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius on September 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In Mauritius, the government is always promising us higher bandwidth and they have a big dream: one PC in all homes. Yet, funnily enough I’m still paddling (not surfing) on the web and splashing water all around but how would I like some of this water to be flowing from the taps!
Indeed, today at around [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux, tagged Fotmat, Kubuntu, USB Drive on September 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I lent my Usb Pen drive to a friend who needed to create a bootable usb disk. On getting it back, I formatted it on Windows but… it would then only work in Windows!!! Not on my beloved Kubuntu!
I tried several utilities, software,… and it only ended up in manking my pen drive useless (impossible [...]
Posted in Computing, My works on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Just accquired some hosting space and a name. There’s nothing there but soon (hopefully) there’ll be lots of stuff on: www.zetwal.net
Posted in Mauritius on September 15, 2007 | 8 Comments »
v/s
Today MBC showed a splended match on TV: Hearts was playing against Rangers and the final score was 4-2. It was a breathtaking match full of pace and …
Oh God, when did we get so so desperate! Honestly who knows about Hearts and Rangers in Mauritius and since when did we care [...]
Posted in Computing on September 14, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Cimg is a nice and simple image library. What I especially like about it is that it is not fussy and does just what is required - it can load/save many different types of images, provides quite a few very useful built-in functions and provides direct access to individual pixels.
The following piece of code loads [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius on September 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In some earlier post, I mentionned that I saw some ipod nanos in Rose-Hill that looked suspiciously fake; identical look but too “applish” - some even have the small apple on their cover.
Recently a friend of mine bought one and now he is going to “met la faya”. Read more here.
Posted in Mauritius on September 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last Monday, I went to Piton de la Petite Riviere Noire with my colleagues. At 828m, it’s the tallest mountain of the island but it might be infact one of the easiest ones to climb.
So how do you get there? Check the map here or the National Park & Conservation Service website.
Just go to [...]
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