Posted in Computing, Linux, tagged Linux, Mac OS, OS, Vista on December 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sometime back, the only Operating System that could be used by “commoners” was Windows and MacOS if you had a Mac - now that Apple has open its architecture, Windows (and Linux) can be installed as well. Unix was absolutely impossible to use and Linux despite the best effort of the open-source community still required [...]
Posted in Linux, tagged ext3, Linux, linux partitions, windows on December 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ll be echoing something I saw on the Linux and Open Souce Blog here: Linux Reader - Get access to Linux files from Windows
Usually it’s the reverse that we attempt to do; i.e., we try to see our NTFS and FAT32 drives from Linux but being able to do the reverse is quite nice as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Christmas, my preferred time of the year - that’s what I miss the most from England: huge christmas trees, christmas carols, skating rink, Santas everywhere, … (even if it’s just commercial, I love all that stuff)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged controversy, ethics, genetic engineering on December 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There has been a lot of controversy regarding genetic engineering and ethics during the past years, so much so that it is sometimes thought to be hampering scientific progress in the field!
The controversy arises mainly from using human stem cells which up to now can only be found in human embryos but there’s also [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged Catamaran, Dolphins, Ile aux Benitiers, Mauritius on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Today I went for a catamaran trip on the west coast of Mauritius - the main interest of which being dolphins. Indeed for some time now, a group of dolphin has been known to inhabit the bay of Tamarin and since then it has been a major tourist attraction. Incidentally the year 2007 has been [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged female stereotypes, dove, venus on December 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I came across an interesting video on youtube that is attracting a lot of attention:
The modern day beauty needs to have the following stereotypes: slim, smooth skin, juicy lips, long silky hair, small nose, small chin, (as mentionned by Jane Ein her post Irvin Penn and Female Beauty), and busty round boobs, round booty (in [...]
Posted in Astronomy, Mauritius, tagged geminids, Mauritius, meteor shower, shooting stars, southern hemisphere on December 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Geminids (in December) and the Perseids (in August) are the two best meteo shower display every year. Since we are in December, it’s the Geminids that i’m going to talk about.
Meteor shower???
In simple terms, on the 13th and 14th of December, we are supposed to see lots of shooting stars - up to 100 [...]
Posted in Computing, tagged SPARQL, Tim Berners Lee, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, WSRI on December 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I recently saw a short (but sweet) interview of Sir Timothy Berners-Lee by Robert Scoble. Sir Tim was talking about his view of Web 3.0 and the new things that are coming out (SPARKLE, a way to export your friends’ details to different social networking, The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), … 
and I’m [...]
Posted in Mauritius, tagged CWA, drought, Mauritius on December 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Once again we’ve hit the dry season in Mauritius and as usual when we open our taps, nothing happens or if you are incredibly lucky, you get a thin silvery trickle.
If water is not running from your tap it doesn’t mean that it’s the same everywhere - though I’m now forced to shower with [...]
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