Hurray! We are, once again, below average!
Rejoice fellow Mauritians!Once again, we’re below average in something important: the speed of Internet in our beloved country.According to the latest quarterly report by Akamai which is summarised in...
View ArticleI want my kids to be hackers
I have just stumbled upon a nice article on how kids don’t really understand how computers work.As the author writes in his conclusion, “I want the people who will help shape our society in the future...
View ArticleVint Cerf interview on Knowledge7.TV
Engineering is the art of turning science fiction into reality says Dr Vinton (Vint) Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.In September 2013, Christina and...
View ArticleTV is dead. The Internet is alive.
TV is dead.This whole conversation about whether we should have local content on hypothetical local TV channels is quite irrelevant.The Internet, and YouTube in particular, has replaced TV.Young people...
View ArticleA nugget of wisdom on how to be successful in life
During an IAmA (I Am A) on Reddit, Colonel Peter Mansoor, former executive officer to General David Petraeus during the surge in Iraq and now a professor of military history at the Ohio State...
View ArticleManU and Liverpool fans: stop being insulting
Here is a typical conversation between a Liverpool fan and a Manchester United fan in Mauritius:ManU fan: Pas simple sa Liverpool là. 5-1 banne Arsenal ek 2-1 gagne baté ar li.Liverpool fan: Péna...
View ArticleHello Java 8
Java 8 has been released!The Oracle build is available online while the OpenJDK variant will be available very soon. I have just downloaded the Oracle JDK on my Fedora Linux laptop and, lo and behold,...
View ArticlePygame with Fedora and Python 3
I’m having some fun with pygame, a library to create games in Python.The exact steps to follow to have pygame in Python 3 on Fedora Linux are detailed in the Python Fun blog. In essence:yum install...
View ArticleThe five biggest problems in Mauritius
According to a survey done by L’Express and DCDM Research in October 2014, here the five biggest problems in Mauritius right now:Unemployment (58.2% of respondents)Poverty (42.7%)Lack of purchasing...
View ArticleJust do it: Vote!!!
We, Mauritians, will elect the people who will represent us in the Parliament for the next five years. I know politics might seem bizarre for young people as our politicians are so disconnect to (and...
View ArticleFlickr is a social network of people who like photography
I started using Flickr to share my photos more than then years ago.Flickr has brought me a lot of joy as, 11 years after, I have uploaded 16,165 photos which have been viewed 1,463,578 times in all...
View Article100% is better than 15%
I just purchased a new wireless router: a TP-LINK AC1750 Archer C7.I have flashed OpenWRT, a Linux distribution, on it and now the sky is the limit. For example, I have managed to get 100% of something...
View ArticleIndependence Day in Mauritius
There is something I have noticed lately: most Mauritians do not care about the Champ de Mars independence day celebrations. This is in stark contrast with people from other nations such as France,...
View ArticleFantastic songs from the 80s
Here are some songs which I absolutely loved when I was a kid in the 80s:Here is the list of tracks:1981 Depeche Mode – Photographic1981 Queen – Under Pressure1981 Soft Cell – Tainted Love1981 Talking...
View ArticleTrump says: money is overrated, like private tuitions
You can make Trump promote your sarcastic executive orders too :-)
View ArticleDo we use our smartphones too much?
When I saw that quote on Reddit, it immediately rang a bell. It seems that most of us (all of us?) bring our smartphones everywhere now (including, of course, the toilet). We can’t live without it and...
View ArticlePlease don’t distort people in your photos!
I have noticed that a lot of photos published online now suffer from volume deformation. The above photo, courtesy of DxO, shows what happens when a group photo of people is made with a wide-angle...
View ArticleThe 7 most important people in the Liverpool coaching staff
Here are the 7 of the most important people in the Liverpool first-team coaching staff: Jürgen Klopp (holding the Liverpool scarf) Born on 16 June 1967 in Stuttgart, Germany, Jürgen became the Manager...
View ArticleHow to reduce the amount of disk space used by the systemd journal
We, Linux people, generally use systemd now and one of its components is the journal controlled by the journalctl command line tool. As explained on the Arch wiki, systemd has its own logging system...
View Article100% is better than 15%
I just purchased a new wireless router: a TP-LINK AC1750 Archer C7. I have flashed OpenWRT, a Linux distribution, on it and now the sky is the limit. For example, I have managed to get 100% of...
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