Drive slow, drive safe & don't receive penalties

Lately I noticed a strong presence of police officers, particularly on roads through sugar cane fields, right after a round-about, where visibility of an officer would be poor from several metres away

Facebook Ad promotes Bitcoin scam in Mauritius

The article says that "Mauritian politician Roshi Bhadain appeared on MBC News and announced a new "wealth loophole" which he says can transform anyone into a millionaire within 3-4 months."

New legislation to replace the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act in Mauritius

The latest Cabinet decisions, of 24 July 2020, mention the Cabinet's approval for the Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation to issue instructions to the Attorney General's office for repealing the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act in order to draft a new a legislation that meets with

41st Annual Conference of the TeX Users Group

Last night, at 20h00 MUT, prior to the conference, TUG carried out an introductory LaTeX workshop. Participants could attend and chat through Zoom or stream on YouTube. Check the conference programme and join to learn more about what is happening in the TeX world

Facebook user in Mauritius arrested for calling Member of Parliament a "dirtbag" in her timeline post

Since amendments were made to the ICT Act of Mauritius, politicians, mainly Members of the National Assembly have grown "sensitive" to comments made about them on social media and they show almost zero tolerance to critics that might contain harsh words

Virtual Developers Conference 2020

The Virtual Developers Conference will run on the 9th, 10th and 11th of September 2020. Further details can be found on the conference website but bear in mind that the schedule could change depending on the availability of our speakers

openSUSE Ad-hoc Board Election

Starting now and until the 2nd of August openSUSE members wishing to run for this election or nominate someone from the community can do so by sending an email to election-officials@opensuse.org

openSUSE Board Non-Confidence Petition result announced

Two weeks ago the openSUSE Election Committee set up an electronic petition to measure whether 20% of the community members are in favour of a re-election of the current elected Board Members. The result was published this morning on the project mailing list

Podman - unable to pull image

Today, while pulling the latest Nextcloud container image from the docker.io repository I noticed that it is failing. Looking at the read: connection reset by peer error I assume it could be primarily due to network failure; maybe poor quality of the connection