Tech News , mauritian blog

Since the month of May 2005 , the mauritian blogosphere has a new node , Tech News.The latter treats Mauritian actualilty related to the tech world, although do expect political-governmental news along with it.As the name implies its just news , so far i haven't seen anyone putting a personal touch, review or open discussion in the articles posted on the blog.

I dont know who runs the site as there is no information as to the administrators.Still its a nice intiative and hope that others will catch the blogging virus.

Category: Mauritius,Blog,Review

ICL tracker new service in Mauritius

mazda mx
Originally uploaded by baadaal.

Since this month a company called ICL is offering an emergency tracking service for cars.

It works like this, you install the ICL tracker kit in your car.The kit comprises of a GPS and a phone. If you get any kind of problem you just click a button , this sends a priority sms to the ICL tracking department , which in turn is able to localise your car and get in contact with you for assistance.

I think that this is a cool initiative to minimize road crimes which have been very frequent these days in Mauritius particularly amongst taxi drivers.

However i am not very certain whether having ICL responding to emergency calls is a good idea , would they have the necessary skills to perform in critical situations? Well i haven't personnaly tried the service so its difficult to know.

One other question that bugs me is the use of an sms to be sent to ICL tracking service , then having ICL coming to the rescue by calling the police or whatever , doesn't that just adds to the overhead of getting help? Wouldn't it be nicer if we just called the police ,asking them to come to the rescue through a GPS tracking id for example which they could get from ICL or having a GPS console shared commonly with the police and ICL department to track vehicules.

The alarm is really not enough these days , i was thinking if they did send sms , why not install a system that could take photos of the interior of your car at regular intervals and having it sent via mms to a security service of something along with having your alarm ringing in case of danger, that would be cool too.

Well lets just wait and see still its better than nothing.The ICL kit comes at Rs20,000 and a montly fee of Rs400.

Category: Mauritius,Car,Security,Alarm,GPS

Google personalized homepage

google personalized
Originally uploaded by baadaal.

Google strikes yet again with its new homepage personalization service .

What it does is simple , clicking on the personalize homepage link , brings you on a page where you can select which contents you want to be displayed on your google homepage.

You can choose between haing your gmail contents , bbc news , slashdot , weather reports , and other news sources being displayed on your homepage.

The drag and drop functionality allows you to place your blocks the way you want it which is kind of neat.

Category: Google,Review,Site,News

The art of writing JAVA comments

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Originally uploaded by baadaal.

Comments form an integral part of our codes. It serves as a navigational and informational aid to understand the logic behind our methods and classes.

This is why it is important to know how intelligent comments must be written instead of just adding right-hand clicked eclipse javadocs everywhere.

Mike Clark has written a very interesting article on the subject.He writes about the best practices of comment writing , the article is not very long and easy to follow , so do spend some time on it whenver you can.

Category: JAVA,BestPractices,Comments,Review

Star wars episode III: Revenge of the Sith

star wars
Originally uploaded by baadaal.

Stars Wars episode 3 is out and playing in many theatres through out the globe ..except of course here in Mauritius.

Star Wars must have been one of the few sagas that anyone having a tv set must have seen at least once in his lifetime. Its really a big phenomenon even bigger than the Lord of the Rings , i would say.

Check out the msn.co.uk gallery for star wars episode 3 there are some very nice pics of your favorite characters , even yoda playing with his light sabre.

The offical website also has trailers of the latest and final episode.

As far as am concerned am having a blast watching all the previous episodes on M6 , every Tuesday they display an episode.

Category: StarWars, Movie, Mauritius

Choosing a Java WIKI

This week i had to find a java based wiki , i made a seach on google and a found 2 potential candidates JSPWiki and VeryQuickWiki.

Both ran on Tomcat , however i got considerable amount of pain saving wiki pages on JSPWiki as it seems that this wiki had some issues with Windows based machines as I didn't really have time to do all the tweaking , i tried VeryQuickWiki.

VeryQuickWiki as the authors describe it is supposed to install with minimal effort and this it did. Just dropping the war of VeryQuickWiki into the webapps folder of Tomcat is enough. But this option would mean that data is stored in files . If you want your wiki data to be stored in MySQL you just have to create a table for the wiki and point it to your MySQL db. Oracle also is supported.

VeryQuickWiki is also easy to use , has a nice interface and it really saves all the endless effort of trying to making something opensource work on your machine.


Category: Wiki,VeryQuickWiki,OpensourceMySql,TomcatJAVA

PMD code Analyzer

One cool little tool which i use regularly to scan my Java codes , PMD , the version 3.1 is currently available for download.

What it does is that it first scans your codes and provides a report as to whether there are:

* Empty try/catch/finally/switch blocks
* Unused local variables, parameters and private methods
* Empty if/while statements
* Overcomplicated expressions
* Classes with high Cyclomatic Complexity measurements

PMD can be installed as a plugin for Eclipse , JBuilder , NetBeans and a host of other IDEs.

I have personnally used it with Eclipse and as a task in Ant and plugin report in Maven. It does help to improve quality of codes and is very simple to use and install.

Category: PMD Eclipse Code JAVA Plugin

technicalfacilitation.com learn Websphere

technicalfacilitation.com
Originally uploaded by baadaal.

The technicalfacilitation.com site is a really down to earth site which explains what is websphere and how to integrate it in your everyday coding environment.

Whats more interesting is that it depicts everything from coding , to building an ear and deploying your J2EE app in simple words so as any beginner can clearly understand J2EE concepts.

This site is really worth a visit.

Catgegory: J2EE, Websphere, JAVA, Site, Review

Integrated Development Environment for Laszlo V2

The new version of the Integrated Development Environment for Laszlo version 2.0 is currently available for download , this version has support for OpenLaszlo3.0.

The IDE actually installs as an Eclipse plugin , so you need the following before being able to install the plugin:

* Eclipse 3.0.1 or 3.0.2
* Eclipse EMF
* Eclipse GEF
* Laszlo Presentation Server 3.0

It allows you to debug , write and configure your LZX files which ressemble a lot like XML but with Javascript also present in it.

Category: Laszlo ,IDE,Eclipse,RIA

Useful Mauritian Links as from alt.mauritius

mauritius
Originally uploaded by baadaal.

Here below are some useful mauritian links as mentioned in the alt.mauritius newsgroup:


alt.mauritius is a newsgroup devoted to anything linked to Mauritius,
or Mauritian aspects of life. This list of Web Page Links is posted
regularly to alt.mauritius .
If any of the hyper-links are outdated, feel free to
email me at m...@bow.intnet.mu

The newsgroup alt.mauritius is archived at
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=alt.mauritius&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&si...

National Anthem midi file: http://ncb.intnet.mu/pmo/images/anthem.mid

(a) Telephone/Cellular/ISP
(I)(i) Telecom Plus (http://www.telecomplus.net/)
(ii) Servihoo (http://www.servihoo.com)
(iii) Cellplus (http://www.gocellplus.com/)
(iv) Mauritius Telecom (http://mt.intnet.mu)
(v) Mauritius Telecom Directory (http://www.mtinfopages.com/)
(II) (i) DCL Internet (http://www.dcl.net)
(ii) SMARTNET (http://www.smartnet.mu/)
(III) (i) Emtel Ltd (http://www.emtel-ltd.com/)
(ii) myKwépé (http://www.mykwepe.com/)

(b) Fora
(i) Ile-Maurice.com (http://www.ile-maurice.com)
(ii) A nou cause causé (http://www.netbabbler.com/goto/?forumid=6249)
(iii) Bienvenue à l'île Maurice
(http://www.multimania.com/khistos/index2.htm)
(iv) Rish (http://www.voy.com/590/)
(v) Rentals (car, bungalow, etc.) (http://network54.com/Forum/40165)
(vi) VisionEar (http://www.theydoit.com/board/login.html)
(vii) Servihoo (http://www.servihoo.com/all_forum//display_forum.asp)
(viii) Boocoopalabre (http://www.boocoopalabre.com/index.php)
(ix) Pascalap .com (http://membres.lycos.fr/pascalap/)
(x) Yahoo groups (http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=mauritius)

(c) Web pages
(i) Email directory (http://www.ile-maurice.com/email)
(ii) Email directory of Mauritians in the US
(http://bacon.herts.ac.uk/~catf1ba/E-REGIONS/usa.html
(iii) UK Mauritian Students' Society
(http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~jeffng/ukmss.html)
(iv) Dodo Gazette (http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6467/)
(v) L'île Maurice - Carnet de voyage
(http://barrere.claude.free.fr/maurice/)
(vi) University of Pennsylvania (http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~mtius/)
(vii) Bienvenue chez Dom (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/2313/)
(vii) Mauritius Australia Connection
(http://www.users.bigpond.com/clancy/mauritius.htm)
(viii) (a) University of Cambridge Mauritian Society
(http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/mauritus/index.htm)
(b) Imperial College, University of London
(http://www.su.ic.ac.uk/mauritian/)
(c) University of Warwick Mauritian Society
(d) LSE SU Mauritian Society (http://www.lse.ac.uk/clubs/mtiansoc/)
(http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~suafg/pascal/soc.htm)
(ix) Association France-Maurice-Rodrigues
(http://www.eucis.com/fmr/default.htm)
(x) Prêt pour décoller (http://www.multimania.com/khistos/)
(xi) Maurice 2000 (http://www.multimania.com/maurice2000/)
(xii) Bienvenue à l'île Maurice (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/decibon/)
(xiii) Mauritius.com Web Hosting (http://www.mauritius.com)
(xiv) Mauritian.co.uk (http://www.mauritian.co.uk)
(xv) Isle Mauritius (http://www.isle-mauritius.com/)
(xvi) PILS (Prévention Information et Lutte contre le SIDA)
(http://www.themauritiusyellowpage.com/pils/index.htm)
(xvii) Stella Clavisque Network
(http://members.tripod.com/stella-clavisque/)
(xviii) Ile Maurice (http://www.mauritius-island.com/)
(xix) Mauritius Island (http://pages.intnet.mu/ngopal/)
(xx) WELCOME TO EMP'S PERSONAL WEBPAGE (http://dreamwater.org/emp/)
(xxi) The Mauritius Turf Club (http://www.mauritiusturfclub.com/)
(xxii) Pictures of Mauritius (http://photos.moris.org/)
(xxiii) Mauritius - Not Only Stamps
(http://www.stampsmauritius.com/WhereIs.htm)
(xxiv) ASSOCIATION AMIZE KREOLE - GROUPE FOLKLORIQUE DE L'ILE MAURICE
(http://membres.lycos.fr/amizekreole2000/)
(xxv) Opinions on society, politics and technology of Mauritius
(http://opinion.moris.org/opinion/)
(xxvi) Le Club (http://www.lilemaurice.com/)
(xxvii) MauriPlus (www.mauriplus.com)
(xxviii) Mauritius Teenage Hangout (http://passeoucasse.com/)
(xxix) Australian Mauritian Association (http://www.amasydney.net/)
**NEW**
(xxx) The Voice of Mauritius
(http://www.kingseat.org.uk/html/mauritius.html) **NEW**
(xxxi) Association Québec Ile Maurice (http://aqim.org) **NEW**

(d) Mailing lists & Communities
(i) Education Reforms in Mauritius
(http://www.egroups.com/list/education-mauritius)
(ii) Mauritians (http://www.egroups.com/list/mauritians)
(iii) Ile-Maurice (http://www.onelist.com/community/Ile-Maurice)
(iv) Island of Mauritius (http://islandofmauritius.listbot.com)
(v) bann-perdi-bann (http://www.egroups.fr/invite/bann-perdi-bann)
(vi) A la découverte de l'île Maurice
(http://communities.msn.fr/nd5c)
(vii) LanArena.mu (http://lanarena.freehomepage.com/list.htm)
(viii) GENMAURICE · Genealogie_Ile_Maurice
(http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/GENMAURICE/messages)
(ix) Corruption in Mauritius
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corruptmru)
(x) BBCWYSE · BBCWYSE.COM (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BBCWYSE/)
(xi) MMM_FANS (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MMM_FANS)

(xiii) Mauritius Philatelic Society
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mauritius_Philatelic_Society/)
(xiv) CozerLamerik (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cozerlamerik/)
**NEW**
(xv) movalley (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/movalley/) **NEW**

(e) Stock Exchange of Mauritius (http://www.semdex.com)

(f) Business & Tourism
(i) Air Mauritius (http://www.airmauritius.com)
(ii) Information (http://www.mauritius-info.com/)
(iii) Yellow Pages (http://www.mauritiusyellowpages.com)
(iv) Public Relations Office of the Sugar Industry - Mauritius
(http://prosi.net)
(v) MAURITIUS HOLIDAY BUNGALOW (http://www.mauritius-bungalow.co.uk)
**NEW**

(h) Cyclone information
(http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html)
(http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/IR/gvar.html )
(http://www.runtel.fr/mto/meteo2.htm)

(i) Internet Radio and TV
(i) NetRadio One (http://www.lexpress-net.com/radionet/index.htm)
(ii) Hello News TV (http://www.hellonewstv.com)

(j) National Computer Board (http://ncb.intnet.mu)

(k) Religious and Cultural Links
(i) Islam in Mauritius (http://www.islam-mauritius.org)
(ii) Mauritian Christian Fellowship (http://www.newlife-mauritius.org)
**NEW**
(iii) Mauritian Creole - Kreol Morisyen (http://www.kreol.mu/) **NEW**

(l) IRC and other chat channels
(i) DALnet
(1) #mauritius
(2) #moris (http://start.at/moris)
(3) #Alt_mauritius
(4) #maurice (http://Maurice.TSX.ORG)
(5) #moriz
(6) #mru
(7) #morice
(8) #morisplus
(9) #Mtius
(ii) EFnet
(1) #mauritius
(2) #maurice
(iii) CHATnet
(1) #mauritius
(iv) Austnet
(1) #mauritius
(v) Servihoo (http://chat.servihoo.com/)
(vi) GigaIRC.net
(1) #mauritius
(2) #maurice

(m) E-commerce
(i) V-Street Virtual Mauritius (http://www.v-street.com/default_n.htm)
(ii) eCADO (http://www.ecado.com/)
(iii) Mauritius Center (http://www.Mauritiuscenter.com)
(iv) My Electronic Dodo (http://www.myeldo.com/)
(v) Librairie Le Cygne (http://www.lecygne.com)
(vi) Professional Computers (http://www.professionalcomputers.net)
(vii) Tropicscope (http://tropicscope.com/)

(n) Education
(1) General
(i) (http://edutech.mu)
(ii) Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies
(http://vcampus.uom.ac.mu)
(iii) Educ@net (http://educanet.intnet.mu)
(iv) @fter School (http://afterschool.intnet.mu)
(v) (http://mokamarade.com/)
(vi) Foli Online Institute (http://www.foli.net)
(2) Schools
(i) St Joseph's College (http://saint-joseph.intnet.mu)
(ii) Imperial College (http://pages.intnet.mu/imperial/)
(iii) Brisée Verdière Govt. School (http://bvgs.intnet.mu)
(iv) Ecole De La Salle RCA (http://pages.intnet.mu/delasalle/)
(v) New Eton College (http://www.new-eton.inmauritius.net/)
(vi) London College (http://afterschool.intnet.mu/london/college/)
(vii) Prof. Hassan Raffa SSS
(http://afterschool.intnet.mu/phassan_raffa/)
(viii) Prof. Basdeo Bissoondoyal College
(http://afterschool.intnet.mu/pbbc/)
(ix) Royal College Port Louis (http://pages.intnet.mu/rcpl/)
(x) Sir Leckraz Teelock SSS (http://afterschool.intnet.mu/slt/)
(xi) Notre Dame de la Confiance RCA (http://www.ndlaconfiance.ac.mu/)
(xii) Ecole du Centre (http://ecoleducentre.intnet.mu/)
(xiii) Sookdeo Bissoondoyal SSS (http://pages.intnet.mu/mehul/sbsss)
(xiv) The Mahatma Gandhi Institute (http://mgi.intnet.mu)
(xv) Le Bocage International School (http://www.lebocage.net)
(3) Tertiary and other Institutions
(i) University of Technology (http://www.utm.ac.mu/)
(ii) Mauritius Institute of Education (http://www.mie.intnet.mu)
(iii) University of Mauritius (http://www.uom.ac.mu/)
(iv) Mauritius Examinations Syndicate (http://mes.intnet.mu/)
(v) Industrial and Vocational Training Board
(http://ncb.intnet.mu/ivtb/)

(o) Information Technology
(i) Mauritius Linux User Group (http://linux.mu)
(ii) FreeBSD in Mauritius (http://freebsd.mu)
(iii) Mauritius Java User Group (http://majug.mu)
(iv) Internet Society of Mauritius ( http://www.isoc-mu.org)

(p) Recipes
(i) Recipes from Mauritius (http://ile-maurice.tripod.com or
http://www.cjp.net/cuisine/)
(ii) (http://pommedamour.net/recipes.php)
(iii) Recipes of Mauritius (http://www.mauritius.org.uk/recipes.htm)
(iv) Recipes from Mauritius
(http://www.users.bigpond.com/clancy/halim.htm)
(v) Australian Mauritian Association
(http://www.amasydney.net/ama/recipes.html)
National Anthem midi file: http://ncb.intnet.mu/pmo/images/anthem.mid

(a) Telephone/Cellular/ISP
(I)(i) Telecom Plus (http://www.telecomplus.net/)
(ii) Servihoo (http://www.servihoo.com)
(iii) Cellplus (http://www.gocellplus.com/)
(iv) Mauritius Telecom (http://mt.intnet.mu)
(v) Mauritius Telecom Directory (http://www.mtinfopages.com/)
(II) (i) DCL Internet (http://www.dcl.net)
(ii) SMARTNET (http://www.smartnet.mu/)
(III) (i) Emtel Ltd (http://www.emtel-ltd.com/)
(ii) myKwépé (http://www.mykwepe.com/)

(b) Fora
(i) Ile-Maurice.com (http://www.ile-maurice.com)
(ii) A nou cause causé (http://www.netbabbler.com/goto/?forumid=6249)
(iii) Bienvenue à l'île Maurice
(http://www.multimania.com/khistos/index2.htm)
(iv) Rish (http://www.voy.com/590/)
(v) Rentals (car, bungalow, etc.) (http://network54.com/Forum/40165)
(vi) VisionEar (http://www.theydoit.com/board/login.html)
(vii) Servihoo (http://www.servihoo.com/all_forum//display_forum.asp)
(viii) Boocoopalabre (http://www.boocoopalabre.com/index.php)
(ix) Pascalap .com (http://membres.lycos.fr/pascalap/)
(x) Yahoo groups (http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=mauritius)

(c) Web pages
(i) Email directory (http://www.ile-maurice.com/email)
(ii) Email directory of Mauritians in the US
(http://bacon.herts.ac.uk/~catf1ba/E-REGIONS/usa.html
(iii) UK Mauritian Students' Society
(http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~jeffng/ukmss.html)
(iv) Dodo Gazette (http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6467/)
(v) L'île Maurice - Carnet de voyage
(http://barrere.claude.free.fr/maurice/)
(vi) University of Pennsylvania (http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~mtius/)
(vii) Bienvenue chez Dom (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/2313/)
(vii) Mauritius Australia Connection
(http://www.users.bigpond.com/clancy/mauritius.htm)
(viii) (a) University of Cambridge Mauritian Society
(http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/mauritus/index.htm)
(b) Imperial College, University of London
(http://www.su.ic.ac.uk/mauritian/)
(c) University of Warwick Mauritian Society
(d) LSE SU Mauritian Society (http://www.lse.ac.uk/clubs/mtiansoc/)
(http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~suafg/pascal/soc.htm)
(ix) Association France-Maurice-Rodrigues
(http://www.eucis.com/fmr/default.htm)
(x) Prêt pour décoller (http://www.multimania.com/khistos/)
(xi) Maurice 2000 (http://www.multimania.com/maurice2000/)
(xii) Bienvenue à l'île Maurice (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/decibon/)
(xiii) Mauritius.com Web Hosting (http://www.mauritius.com)
(xiv) Mauritian.co.uk (http://www.mauritian.co.uk)
(xv) Isle Mauritius (http://www.isle-mauritius.com/)
(xvi) PILS (Prévention Information et Lutte contre le SIDA)
(http://www.themauritiusyellowpage.com/pils/index.htm)
(xvii) Stella Clavisque Network
(http://members.tripod.com/stella-clavisque/)
(xviii) Ile Maurice (http://www.mauritius-island.com/)
(xix) Mauritius Island (http://pages.intnet.mu/ngopal/)
(xx) WELCOME TO EMP'S PERSONAL WEBPAGE (http://dreamwater.org/emp/)
(xxi) The Mauritius Turf Club (http://www.mauritiusturfclub.com/)
(xxii) Pictures of Mauritius (http://photos.moris.org/)
(xxiii) Mauritius - Not Only Stamps
(http://www.stampsmauritius.com/WhereIs.htm)
(xxiv) ASSOCIATION AMIZE KREOLE - GROUPE FOLKLORIQUE DE L'ILE MAURICE
(http://membres.lycos.fr/amizekreole2000/)
(xxv) Opinions on society, politics and technology of Mauritius
(http://opinion.moris.org/opinion/)
(xxvi) Le Club (http://www.lilemaurice.com/)
(xxvii) MauriPlus (www.mauriplus.com)
(xxviii) Mauritius Teenage Hangout (http://passeoucasse.com/)
(xxix) Australian Mauritian Association (http://www.amasydney.net/)
**NEW**
(xxx) The Voice of Mauritius
(http://www.kingseat.org.uk/html/mauritius.html) **NEW**
(xxxi) Association Québec Ile Maurice (http://aqim.org) **NEW**

(d) Mailing lists & Communities
(i) Education Reforms in Mauritius
(http://www.egroups.com/list/education-mauritius)
(ii) Mauritians (http://www.egroups.com/list/mauritians)
(iii) Ile-Maurice (http://www.onelist.com/community/Ile-Maurice)
(iv) Island of Mauritius (http://islandofmauritius.listbot.com)
(v) bann-perdi-bann (http://www.egroups.fr/invite/bann-perdi-bann)
(vi) A la découverte de l'île Maurice
(http://communities.msn.fr/nd5c)
(vii) LanArena.mu (http://lanarena.freehomepage.com/list.htm)
(viii) GENMAURICE · Genealogie_Ile_Maurice
(http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/GENMAURICE/messages)
(ix) Corruption in Mauritius
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corruptmru)
(x) BBCWYSE · BBCWYSE.COM (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BBCWYSE/)
(xi) MMM_FANS (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MMM_FANS)
(xii) JosephinedelileMaurice · Hairy Xstar Josephine de l ile
Maurice (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JosephinedelileMaurice/)
(ADULTS ONLY!)
(xiii) Mauritius Philatelic Society
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mauritius_Philatelic_Society/)
(xiv) CozerLamerik (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cozerlamerik/)
**NEW**
(xv) movalley (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/movalley/) **NEW**

(e) Stock Exchange of Mauritius (http://www.semdex.com)

(f) Business & Tourism
(i) Air Mauritius (http://www.airmauritius.com)
(ii) Information (http://www.mauritius-info.com/)
(iii) Yellow Pages (http://www.mauritiusyellowpages.com)
(iv) Public Relations Office of the Sugar Industry - Mauritius
(http://prosi.net)
(v) MAURITIUS HOLIDAY BUNGALOW (http://www.mauritius-bungalow.co.uk)
**NEW**

(h) Cyclone information
(http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html)
(http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/IR/gvar.html )
(http://www.runtel.fr/mto/meteo2.htm)

(i) Internet Radio and TV
(i) NetRadio One (http://www.lexpress-net.com/radionet/index.htm)
(ii) Hello News TV (http://www.hellonewstv.com)

(j) National Computer Board (http://ncb.intnet.mu)

(k) Religious and Cultural Links
(i) Islam in Mauritius (http://www.islam-mauritius.org)
(ii) Mauritian Christian Fellowship (http://www.newlife-mauritius.org)
**NEW**
(iii) Mauritian Creole - Kreol Morisyen (http://www.kreol.mu/) **NEW**

(l) IRC and other chat channels
(i) DALnet
(1) #mauritius
(2) #moris (http://start.at/moris)
(3) #Alt_mauritius
(4) #maurice (http://Maurice.TSX.ORG)
(5) #moriz
(6) #mru
(7) #morice
(8) #morisplus
(9) #Mtius
(ii) EFnet
(1) #mauritius
(2) #maurice
(iii) CHATnet
(1) #mauritius
(iv) Austnet
(1) #mauritius
(v) Servihoo (http://chat.servihoo.com/)
(vi) GigaIRC.net
(1) #mauritius
(2) #maurice

(m) E-commerce
(i) V-Street Virtual Mauritius (http://www.v-street.com/default_n.htm)
(ii) eCADO (http://www.ecado.com/)
(iii) Mauritius Center (http://www.Mauritiuscenter.com)
(iv) My Electronic Dodo (http://www.myeldo.com/)
(v) Librairie Le Cygne (http://www.lecygne.com)
(vi) Professional Computers (http://www.professionalcomputers.net)
(vii) Tropicscope (http://tropicscope.com/)

(n) Education
(1) General
(i) (http://edutech.mu)
(ii) Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies
(http://vcampus.uom.ac.mu)
(iii) Educ@net (http://educanet.intnet.mu)
(iv) @fter School (http://afterschool.intnet.mu)
(v) (http://mokamarade.com/)
(vi) Foli Online Institute (http://www.foli.net)
(2) Schools
(i) St Joseph's College (http://saint-joseph.intnet.mu)
(ii) Imperial College (http://pages.intnet.mu/imperial/)
(iii) Brisée Verdière Govt. School (http://bvgs.intnet.mu)
(iv) Ecole De La Salle RCA (http://pages.intnet.mu/delasalle/)
(v) New Eton College (http://www.new-eton.inmauritius.net/)
(vi) London College (http://afterschool.intnet.mu/london/college/)
(vii) Prof. Hassan Raffa SSS
(http://afterschool.intnet.mu/phassan_raffa/)
(viii) Prof. Basdeo Bissoondoyal College
(http://afterschool.intnet.mu/pbbc/)
(ix) Royal College Port Louis (http://pages.intnet.mu/rcpl/)
(x) Sir Leckraz Teelock SSS (http://afterschool.intnet.mu/slt/)
(xi) Notre Dame de la Confiance RCA (http://www.ndlaconfiance.ac.mu/)
(xii) Ecole du Centre (http://ecoleducentre.intnet.mu/)
(xiii) Sookdeo Bissoondoyal SSS (http://pages.intnet.mu/mehul/sbsss)
(xiv) The Mahatma Gandhi Institute (http://mgi.intnet.mu)
(xv) Le Bocage International School (http://www.lebocage.net)
(3) Tertiary and other Institutions
(i) University of Technology (http://www.utm.ac.mu/)
(ii) Mauritius Institute of Education (http://www.mie.intnet.mu)
(iii) University of Mauritius (http://www.uom.ac.mu/)
(iv) Mauritius Examinations Syndicate (http://mes.intnet.mu/)
(v) Industrial and Vocational Training Board
(http://ncb.intnet.mu/ivtb/)

(o) Information Technology
(i) Mauritius Linux User Group (http://linux.mu)
(ii) FreeBSD in Mauritius (http://freebsd.mu)
(iii) Mauritius Java User Group (http://majug.mu)
(iv) Internet Society of Mauritius ( http://www.isoc-mu.org)

(p) Recipes
(i) Recipes from Mauritius (http://ile-maurice.tripod.com or
http://www.cjp.net/cuisine/)
(ii) (http://pommedamour.net/recipes.php)
(iii) Recipes of Mauritius (http://www.mauritius.org.uk/recipes.htm)
(iv) Recipes from Mauritius
(http://www.users.bigpond.com/clancy/halim.htm)
(v) Australian Mauritian Association
(http://www.amasydney.net/ama/recipes.html)


Category: Mauritius, Link,Mauritian

Breaking news :New features in Goowy soon

Got a mail this morning from Alex Bard one of the founders of Goowy. Here is an extract:

I saw your posting about goowy mail. I am one of the founders and wanted to thank you for your support. We have a lot of really cool new features coming soon including resizing, updated UI and calendaring. Send us your thoughts and comments and they could soon become features.-Alex Bard

I personnaly beleive that Goowy could be an instant hit if properly marketed and made known , and am always 200% behind Rich Internet Applications , so lets wish Goowy developers all the best and try to give them a little help making this webmail client famous.

Category: Goowy, Flash, News

OpenLaszlo3.0 available for download

Laszlo has changed the name of the new version of its platform from Laszlo Presentation Server to OpenLaszlo 3.0 which comes with a number of new features.

OpenLaszlo allows you to develop RIA applications , based on an xml-formatted file which renders into a Flash SWF file . OpenLaszlo is in direct competition with rival Flex which is not Open Source technology.



Category: Laszlo, RIA, Flex ,Flash

JavaBlackBelt - Test your Java Skills

The JavaBlackBelt site allows you to test your EJB , Web Services , Core Java and other Java related skills online . Its a good way to prepare for your Java Certification.

The site has contributors who donate questions to it , you can register and keep tracks of your answers to these questions. The layout is simple and navigation is kind of easy. However the site might crash in the middle of your "exam" as following its announcement JavaBlackBelt is supporting between 500 and 1000 concurrent users.Still its worth the visit.

Category: JAVA , J2EE , Site

Goowy 100% Flash Mail Client Available

goowy mail 100% flash
Originally uploaded by baadaal.

Was expecting this for a while but the first 100% flash mail,Goowy, is finally out. Needless to say i jumped on the occasion and immediately created an account to review this wicked flash mail client.



So to start with goowy , offers 100MB free mail space , with cool features such as POP3 settings , junk filters and something really awesome SKINS!!! You can actually upload any image you want to serv as your skin (although there is a 100Kb restriction on size of your skin).



Whats interesting is as its flash based , once you got on the page and the flash is downloaded on you pc , everything is a breeze no need to wait for your page to load like in GMAIL , Hotmail or other web based HTML email clients. You mail client resides on your pc (unless you clear you cache), so its really very fast.



Its superbly simple to use , although i would have prefered a more elaborated GUI a la "Stargate" but well its a very good initiative and on top of that its FREE. So hurry up and signup , just like me hiihihihi.





Category: Mail,Flash,News, Review

Google Map available for UK

mapliverpool
Originally uploaded by baadaal.

The brits now got the UK version of the google map , which is absolutely awesome. I tried finding Mauritian restaurants in UK , and was really impressed that they already had it indexed.This is because apparently google has taken the addresses of local establishements from Yell.com which already had a list of restaurants , businesses , hotels,etc.. in the United Kingdom.

Try the following search string in the search box on the google map page:
liverpool street station,City Of London, Greater London, EC4N, United Kingdom
This will give you an idea of the depth of information that can be retrieved.

Do click on the Satellite link at the top left corner of the screen.This will give you a stallite image of the location which you have searched for. However there is a limitation to the level at which you can zoom. For very good zoom satellite pics do try keyhole which would make james bond blush (Keyhole is owned by Google).

Category: Google,Map,UK,Mauritius

Kelvir virus removal for msn

Had a few people sending me links over msn with the format:

Looks its you
pictures.php?email=[your e-mail]

Dont click on the link , thats the Kelvir virus , if you are the one sending these types of links over msn conversation , then you should download the Kelvir removal tool from symantec.

Category: Virus,Kelvir,MSN

MSN 7 news

MSN 7 now is in public release , so if you are still using your msn6.2 its high time your dump it away and try out the new version. There are a host of little improvements that make it an excellent IM companion.



Two or three things worth noting are :
1. Personal Message
2. Muggings or Dynamic Display pics
3. Search

What i like with the personal message is that at times you want to add a phrase or quote with your display name but when you write in conversations it becomes a real mess , this is where the personal message feature comes into play. You add your personal message , it appears next to your name in the title box of your conversation window , without appearing in your conversations. Also there is an option where you can have the song which you are playing in windows media player appearing next to your display name which is kind of neat.

The muggins are dynamic display pictures , when you place a smiley in your converstions , your display pictures change too (depending on which muggin you installed). To get a free muggin simply open a conversation box and click on packs you can select the top 4 packs each will install a different muggin. Else if you have a few spare bucks you get buy one from bluemountain.

With the search button in your conversation box you can perform searches without having to leave your conversation box.It returns the result in the conversation box itself after quering msn search

Category: MSN7 ,News , IM, Muggin

Buying a laptop - the right decision?

One day or another you will come up with this question "Should i get myself a laptop or a desktop?" . The answer usually depends on 2 factors the first being your budget and the second your performance requirements.



Budget wise unless you live in the US or in South East Asia the price of a laptop can be really exorbitant. In Mauritius for example the price of an Intel Centrino 1.5Ghz , 40GB ,DVD writer , WiFi-enabled laptop can be as much as Rs44,000 + Vat thats about 800 pounds (pound 1 = Rs 55 ).The same is for the UK were prices really put the laptop out of reach of low budget consumers which is a real shame.

Perfomance wise laptops are really not as powerful as desktops , actually the more you want your laptop to be performant the more graphic cards , chips , ram you need to add ,these does help to boost up the juice but the negative points being that your laptop becomes heavier , heats up more and uses more battery life.

Laptops are useful (if you have a low budget) when:
1. You're always on the road and away from your pc
2. You dont need heavy duty equipment , a simple Celeron laptop would do
3. You will use the laptop only as a secondary unit to your pc
4. You need to regularly visit your clients on-site.
5. Want to take your work back home.

J2EE programmers and all other performance hungry programming experts , you are all cursed!!! The laptop unless being a really mighty beast will never be able to satisfy our ram and power hungry applications unless you are willing to pay the price.Here the desktop should be reconsidered as a primary option. Who wouldn't have been happy to bring back his Eclipse-tomcat-jboss application home to work on it off office hours....sniff.

Its really sad that the prices never seem to drop for laptops because it would have been much more elegant to replace our common desktops with them.

Resource:
If you want to distinguish between a Pentium M , Celeron , Sempron laptops and get more additional information here is a google-group thread which explains what all these are and gives some interesting tips as to which laptop makes have the lowest/highest power consumption and performance.

Category: Laptop , Desktop , Centrino , Mauritius , UK

Running mutiple IE on WinXp

This is the nightmare of most web designers , you need to test your site on multiple versions of Internet Explorer. I happened that recently i got the same problem , so I had the option of either reformat my precious harddisk else find a way to run MSIE 5.5 (Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 ) on my WinXP.

So after some querying on my favorite search engine I got the answer to my problem on this blog .

If you want to get a quick answer this is what you should try:
1. Download the following zip file: http://downloads.skyzyx.net/ie/ie55sp2_nt.zip
2.Unzip the zip file anywhere on your pc
3.Find the IEXPLORE.exe and click it
4.Test your version of internet explorer by going on the following url: http://www.skyzyx.com/random/browser.php


Note:

1.Clicking on the about button in the internet explorer 5.5 will give you false information on the browser it will display 6.0 as browser information you need to go to the above stated URL

2. When checking browser information on multiple browsers don’t forget to refresh your page else you will get the cached page from your previous browser thus showing innacurrate information


Category: IE , WinXP , Explorer , Browser

Hacking Google to find people , mp3 , webcams , map

Google is really a powerful search engine ,over the years it has become a really essential tool to me as a developer and internet enthusiat. If ever I need to search for anything on the net I am 90% sure am gonna get what I want if I go to Google. But I am really suprised that many people dont know how to perform queries in google to get information that they need.This article is going to help them getting started in learning how to unleash the powers of Google.

Finding People
Finding people is quiet easy if you want to search for someone you should first know his/her full name or nickname. You go to google you type "Javed Mandary" (with the quotes)would return you all the pages having the name Javed Mandary. In my case however since am indexed a lot by Google if you simply type Javed would return you results on me (right now on the first page ..but that varies considerably). Of course you must hope that the person you are trying to find is someone who participates in forums or writes up articles or simply blogs , that person needs to have net presence to be found.

Finding files / mp3s
This is where the fun parts starts , why use illegal software to download music files (Kazaa , Sheraza , etc..) whilst you can ask google to find it for you. This is how i go about doing it. What you need to know is that many people share music publicly over the internet , google being such as powerful crawler can indentity these pages and return it back to you. Say you want a song called 'a day in paradiso' from artist 'phil' and you want the file in mp3 format. In google type the following commands and see the results that are returned:
"Index of" a day in paradiso ".mp3"
"Index of" paradiso phil ".mp3" "size"

Of course the example I gave above is fictionous , so i would doubt that you get a real result but you can change the artist and song title with real song information. If you want the song in wma or ogg format just substitute the .mp3 part with .wma or .ogg .

The same could be done to search for different types of files on the net may it be video , audio , pdf , powerpoint etc..

For more detailed information as to how to find mp3s please see the following article: http://www.i-hacked.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=128


Finding Public Webcams
Some webcams can be viewed over the internet as they are publicly available the following article shows how to find these webcams : http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/81/42/

There are a host of other functinalites that can be obtained using google , for example using google map you can literally hack it into creating your own map with your own markings , add video , pictures and other multimedia information to your own customed made google map. Engadget has a walkthrough of how to do this and here is a wiki for those of you who really want to dig futher into it.

There is also a book which is out called Google Hacking for Penetration Testers which shows what can be done with the search engine.

Category: Google, Hack, GoogleMap, Mp3 , Search,Map