Laws in Mauritius

Police Car

Very often I have come across situations where Police vehicles were parked in unauthorized zones but according to law police vehicles, fire fighters and ambulances are allowed to park in restricted zones but I see the Mauritius Police Force abusing more than they should. One police vehicle was parked near Casernes also known as Line Barracks in Mauritius, where the van was obstructing the way. I don’t know why the Mauritian government has granted these privileges to an institution where they abusing and on the same day I saw a policeman giving a ticket to a driver who was in his vehicle but parked in an unauthorized area.

Sincerely, I find this unacceptable!! When you go for the driver’s license test, you get screwed for petty issues which you have not done and when you decide to talk to the commissioner, he will tell you that “Our examiners know how to do their work”. Many times I have seen police vehicles not giving precedence to pedestrians on a busy road. Do you call this “Loyally we serve”??

I remember that I had to be subjected to a “frisk” search in UK as stabbing was getting more acute. The policeman introduced himself in a polite manner and asked me kindly that he needs to search my bag as all lights went red when I got through the metal detector and he even apologized for the inconveniences caused. I am still wondering when will the Mauritius Police Force improve its staff and deliver quality services in Mauritius???

Job opportunities at CIA

I came across an advertisement on MSN mentioning that CIA is recruiting new employees including psychologists and Software Engineers. I was really amazed and read the article in depth. Many people have been receiving e-mails mentioning that job opportunities are available at CIA and thought that such mails might be scam but CIA itself denied this fact since they advanced that it was a campaign to recruit new employees.

These job opportunities sound cool, just like in Splinter Cell since you need to hide your true identity and use fictitious name. Only your parents shall be aware of your status as a secret agent. Sounds like James Bond!!! Read full article here

Google maps offers Street View

I came across a blog with an interesting article, mentioning that google maps featured the author. My attention was drawn closer to the maps at that time and I tried to target a known location in the United Kingdom.

Referring to the above image, Google has taken privacy into consideration by editing the live satellite picture by blurring the plate number of the cars.Awesome!!! Back in 2008, I used to take the stairs circled in red in order to reach the bus station.Have a look at the picture below.

Besides, the engineers have also implemented vanishing point in google maps. I can’t believe the unzoomed images acquired are crystal clear

Unfortunately, not all regions in the UK can be “Street viewed” andI have started to miss those moments which I have spent last year in UK.

Wireless signal on Linux

I’m puzzled right now since I can surf smoothly on Linux with signal strength @ 34% while on Windows no wireless networks are detected. I bet Linux has a better profile for managing wireless connections. On the other side, windows focuses more on less energy consumption while Linux does not have this feature built-in. Of course, my laptop’s battery drains faster on Linux but the performance hit is less than that suffered on windows.

I am rather impressed since transfer rate which I acquired is 50KB/s on a 512K Line and Windows doesn’t even detect my Livebox’s SSID