Since some years, Infotech Exhibitions has become part of our ‘culture’, if we can say it as such.

Every year, thousand of mauritians make a must to visit THE infotech, which is supposed to be a window over our future cyber world, where we are already lagging behind by one or two decades.

It is now purely commercial rather than supposingly, making mauritians discover the ‘latest’ technologies.

Some time back, it was announced(more can be read here);

INFOTECH 2007 will be held from Wednesday 8 to Sunday 12 August 2007 at the Swami Vivekananda International Convention Centre (SVICC) in Pailles

The Opening Ceremony will take place on 8 August 2007 and the exhibition will be open to the public over four days from Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 August 2007.

However, as the exhibitions succeed one after the other, most of us have been realizing that there is no real innovation or revolutionary products which we would be expecting to see, displayed on the shelfs.

Still, we do have some exhibitors which attracted much visitors last year, for instance

• The apples that stood there, large screens, fascinating most of us.
• Emtel stand with their cow-girls
• Nomad, with the hundreds of agents, spamming the expo
• That famous BMW which can be seen in so many hi5 profiles,lol

without forgetting the usual ones like

• MBC and the private radios Studio
• Rajiv Gandhi Science Center with their Virtual Simulator
• tens of Computer Shops exposing their products

The prices of the stands range from rs45,000 up to rs190,000…

For this year’s edition, most of us would like to see new things come up, in addition to the “copy paste” that has been done since all these years.

Personally, i would like to see something that would bring a change in our local websphere, that would be a great innovation for a cyber island.

• why is it that, we, mauritians, are still lagging behind when it comes to participating in online forums/blogs?

  

• how many of us do possess a web site, when most of us(YOU) do have a 50Mb free personal web server space offered by Telecom Plus if you have ADSL or MyT?Let aside the normal Internet Users…
  Lets consider how many Computer Science Students or even IT-related job holders do have a simple web site or even their space on the web? without taking hi5 or facebook into consideration… its sometimes a shame for us with thousand of them leaving College and hundreds of them graduating, yearly…

  Do show that u are in the IT Field by at least proving that you do know how to make a simple blog or web site.

Perhaps, it would be interesting to have an exhibitor or organisation, promoting this culture, but i doubt there will be, seeing the cost of the stands.

So, my question is

What do you expect for

         Infotech 2007?

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hi to all….
2 subjects : UOM Movies & a gr8 audio search engine….

first of all, good news to all uom students.
Movies week is here(according to our president)
so, here is the schedule;

I guess that the sessions would be at 930 and perhaps 13hrs, like the last time.

Tuesday
	Fool and Final
	Pirates de Caraibes 3
Wednesday
	Les Yeux de la colline
	Tararararararumrumpumpumpum
Thursday
	Spiderman3 or 300

I got all these from Roushdat’s blog, so if any of these are false, u know that next time, no need to vote for him in the elections

Now, let me give you the link of a great audio search engine….

www.skreemr.com
You get

• Direct Downloads
• Rating
• Results Preview

ya, the results preview is very cool.
u can listen to the song before downloading it, using its own web based player, which i suppose is of Ajax, just like its rating system.

U can also make it more handy by adding it to your firefox…

so,leave u here and hope to see you in the auditorium for the movies….

hello to all….

i should first of all be grateful that nomad is working and allowing me to post this in my blog…thnks

so, “mo commence plaigne imper”

this started 2 days back, with a very low speed since early the morning.
i called them to complain as usual and during the “troubleshooting”, at one time, when the modem was reset from there, it became “capoute”/Out of order…
some technical problem, no display on screen and no connection

please note that as usual, at that time, the BTS antenna was again out of order and the persons concerned are always there as usual to put it to work again.

I had to go to a nomad stand to get it exchanged and supposingly enjoy a good connection, as says the moto;

“High Speed Reliable Internet Access”

no no no…
since then, my connection seems ko.
am getting surf speeds of about 50-70kbps for a 128 kbps modem.

Screenshot taken before writing this

today, since the morning, have been calling them several times and no one is able to give me a reason why i am getting this speed.
i called them at 1730 and “customer care agent la ine passe ene movais 10mins”

ah, seems that nomad is kouma dire “la boutik sinois”…

there is no one in charge there at times, just like today, when i asked to talk to one of the supervisors or even a technician.

after, some “maltraiter and kozer kouyon”, a supervisor was “finally available” and according to her,

bane fluctuations lo rezo dan le nord p cause sa problem la.

i agree 4 fluctuation, but not at the rate of 50%, sometimes giving 50kbps!

It seems that as usual and always, technicians are working on it right now and everything will be ok at 19hrs. i promised to her to call her back at 19hrs….LOL….

so, thats about the everyday life of nomad users….

hmm, Nomad Newsletter is back, 5th edition….
just one screenshot is enough:

i would like to know to which extent is this true….

ah, also, i forgot to mention that according to nomad,

Customers do not have the right to use a software called
“Navini Diagnostic” which is freely available from Navini’s Site.

Instead, I encourage, every nomad user to download it(if ur nomad works) and use it koz

• It allows u to know from which antenna u r receiving connection
• Distance from that antenna
• Reset your modem from your computer itself
• Get technical details about your modem
• Get Graphs of Speed and Quality

Get it Now and tell Customer Care that it is available and you are using it.

U can also meet the nomad staff here:

 

finally, do not forget but

Infotech will be coming soon, hehehehehe

Connection is now 65kbps, just checked!

finally, the day was here….
the day that most of us were awaiting since so long…

I woke up much earlier than usual, 530am, to get ready in time, and prepare everything i needed for the day.
ene coup aspirateur dan loto, ya, got the permission to take the car out to uni, special day, took a bath, met zoli chemise, cravate + pantalon and left home at about 730.

i reached uni at about 9hrs, after having met my swthrt n drove her to work(wai normal, pu ammene li popom imper, ine gagne loto).

Once in the lab (special thanks to all the lab attendants), i started to set up my own network, using my laptop, Vicky’s Laptop and his switch…
we were later joined by Splash and Etech(Azagen) with their laptops.

It was a pleasant atmosphere, not much stress, we were al joking and pulling the legs of our friends koz each one of us had different names, according to our laptops;

• Dual Core (Vicky)
• Dual Core 2 (Splash)
• Celeron (Etech)
• P4 (me)

again, big thnks to Vicky, Splash and Etech for helping me in my project demo.

Some mins after, our group grew bigger with the arrival of other friends, and last but not the least, my project partner, Sandra(late as usual for the past 3 yrs)

better late than never

we then, tested our software for a last time, still correcting some minor bugs and we carried out a draft presentation, in the lab itself…

At about 1115, we moved to room C, where i installed my laptop and my bluetooth

this was nice!
i used my mobile phone as a remote control to control my power point presentation. thus, no need to stand near the keyboard and press the keys at each time.

At about 1130, Our project Supervisor (Mr Pavaday) and our examiner (Mr Baichoo) showed up…
we immediately started our presentation which lasted for some 20 mins.

The Presentation went on smoothly and so was the demo, during which, all of our 3 software, managed to work correctly, giving 200% of themselves, without crashing or causing any errors…

that was our work, carried out for months!

well thats from our point of view…

after our presentation and that of our friends, we moved to Caudan where we ordered some pizza (wi mo koner, again! )

the traditional pic goes as follows

finally before leaving Caudan abt about 4pm, we had an interesting photo session…

The whole series of pictures can be viewed from my photo album…again, i wish to thank all those who offered their help and assistance during this project…
without u, it would have been impossible to do the project (kidding sa )

Friends, it was a pleasure for the last 3 yrs to have been together and now its time, for some of us to leave the university (hope i will be in this batch, with no resits) but however, we wont ever forgot those moments, that will remain memorable…
[kouma dire mo p ekrire essay :S ]

leave u here, hope to get your comments in this post…

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This evening, in Port Louis, i have lost my leather bracelet, gifted to me by my swthrt…

i never realised how it can be sad and painful when u lose something,important to your eyes, and above all, gifted to u by someone for whom u care a lot.

One of those F*#$ guys walking past me, have most probably picked up my bracelet when they found it falling and i realised that my hand was “strange” some 5 secs after, but it was too late.

The last time, i was taken in picture with it was yesterday itself, in uni and the most weird thing about it is that this morning itself, for the first time, i examined it properly, looking at its structure and how it was made.
who knew that it was going to be the first and last time?
anyway, seems that sometimes, i do get these kindda things :S

Exactly 32 days since i received it as a gift and its already lost
am sorry for losing it (so soon :P, kidding)

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the la ligne droite final is here….

The Final Year Project Presentations will be held on this Wed, Thurs and Friday…

just like tens of other friends of CSE Department, this week, i am rather busy in computer labs to test our software in real time conditions (Using uom network ) to find out small bugs into my software…

Now, at 1150pm on 11 June 2007, i can say that both of my end of yr software are working 99.9% correctly (until new bugs are found)

hmm, just to add, i will be presenting my project entitled
“Implementing Fingerprint-based Secure Systems“
on Friday 15th June 2007 in Room C at 1130…
you are cordially invited if u promise to remain silent and do not ask any questions during questions time

[special thanks to Vicky for his help and special request for him to stay at home on that day]

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During my free time, i usually do some mixes with my Virtual Dj 3 - cracked

Not all of them become pleasant to the ears but sometimes, it happens that a few of them become a bit nice… These nice ones are then uploaded on my site and i usually do some spamming in my msn contacts to get them to download the tracks, occasionally getting some nice feedback…

so, here are the latest tracks, mostly Bollywood tracks mixed with other tracks or beats (Click for download) or visit this page to get the whole list…

Good Boy Bad Boy - Bouger Bouger Remix	5.8 MB
Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar - Rich Girl Mix	4.8 MB
Pump Up Maula Mere	4.6 MB
Sajna	3.4 MB
Everybody Say Thaare Vaaste	3.6 MB
Tararumpum	3.9 MB
Subha Subha	5.0 MB

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

1 yr completed,
2 weeks of stress,
3 yr course finished
4 papers,
5 modules including project
and
100s of slides to reviseThe nightmare is over, at least for now

To celebrate all this, my group n myself, went to Shoprite
(currently the lendroit the plus branche and craze for uni students)

hmm, pizzaaaaaaa, kfc, coca, b**rrrrrrrrrrr

was very nice…

u can have a look at the photo album on my site directly...that will take some time for us to calm down, celebrate a bit more through one or some outings among friends, but still, we got to prepare our final year project presentation, to be held from 13-15 June 2007 :)Till zen, amizerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr