Termination of Employment: Is the Law made for ti-Mauritians in mind?

The “Notice of termination of agreement” is 1 month. You may find the EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT 2008 on this link.

Here’s the advantages and disadvantages for both parties.
The employer:
1. Has 4 or 5 people in the department to easily cover your absence. The sooner he can get rid of you without paying, the better it is.

2. In case an employee is playing a really crucial role in the core business process. The company could just lose the employee withing 1 months without enough time for doing a handing over. This can be very damaging financially.

The employee:
1. Employers can easily fill the void created by you. But who can fill the void of a bread winning father with loans, wife/kids to feed? There is only 1 father in a generic Mauritian family.

2. She can leave her current job for a higher paying one without waiting too much.

3. Are there so many jobs on the Mauritian job market so as employees can be choosy about their jobs? I think job security is primordial.

4. The process of finding a new job can be very long. Can be greater than 4-6 months for some:
– The person has to apply for jobs.
– It can take weeks/months before responses come.
– Interviews are scheduled. Takes weeks. Sometimes more than 1 interviews are required.
– Takes more weeks before the company finally sends a proposal (if you are lucky).
– You get employed on temporary basis on a mediocre salary.
– If lucky again, you get full employment.

However, the new job can be terminated with a 1 month notice too.

Subject to any provision of an agreement, the length of the notice to be
given under subsection (1) shall be of 30 days.

I think i know what laws are passed and in whose favour
It is companies that fund elections. If ministers don’t abide to the demands of sponsoring companies, politicians simply won’t get money.

Is 1 month notice of termination enough according to you?

Trip to Rodrigues Island (Trailer)

It was the first time I ever boarded a plane and flew with it. It was with Air Mauritius flying to Rodrigues and back. Rodrigues is about the half the size of Savanne district of Mauritius; Rodrigues is 108 km2 while Savanne district is 244.8 km2

The first thing to put in my luggage was my mobile charger: the adapter and the USB cable.

Mobile Charger in Luggage
Mobile Charger in Luggage

Arriving at the airport, you get a trolley to put your luggage on. Interesting fact about it is that you need to push on the handle for it to move. If not, it will be on “brake mode” which is very handy in case you just leave the trolley unattended or doing a little descent with it.

Trolley at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Airport
Trolley at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Airport

Pictures worth more than thousand words…

Me sitting in the plane
Sitting in the plane
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In bus going to Ile aux Coco
Going to Ile aux Coco on boat
Going to Ile aux Coco on boat
Travelling to an unknow location
Travelling to an unknow location
Going to Trou D'Argent
Going to Trou D’Argent

Time to return to Mauritius now…

Waiting lounge at Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport Rodrigues
Waiting lounge at Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport at Rodrigues

It was raining a lot. But the plane flies above the clouds so i could enjoy the sun and work on my tan a bit :3

Sunlight above the clouds in plane
Sunlight above the clouds in plane

I hope you enjoyed this trailer. Do keep in touch for future posts and much more photos 😛

World of Tanks

Been playing this new Free-to-Play Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. Very nice game and especially the graphics. Here’s some screenshots.

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What i like:
– No long loading time like League of Legends
– Graphics are nice and doesn’t lag at all. The screenshots above were taken with standard quality. I’m currently downloading the HD assets.

Dislikes:
– Games are short: around 7 – 15 minutes.
– No respawn when dead.
– Some tanks have to be bought with “real money”
– Experience is very slow to earn to be able to do more in-game “researches”.
– Not available on Linux

Download it here

CoDel Intro by Loganaden Velvindron

Hosted at the University of Mauritius (UoM), Logan made a presentation explaining the “bufferbloat” problem in our network equipment [1].

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Buffer is a memory where data is stored temporarily before being transferred to another place [2]. For example, the conveyor belt at the supermarket can be thought as a buffer. Imagine a person buying stuffs for his family for one month and you are waiting for him to finish checking out for you to buy your single pack of chewing gums.

Source: carrotsncake.com

You just wasted an enormous amount of time. You’d feel pretty much pissed about it.

Reducing the amount of articles a person can put on a conveyor belt to let’s say 10 articles max will prevent you from waiting excessive amount of time as compared to being behind a person with 100+ articles.

This is what CoDel wants to achieve from what I understood from the presentation. Reducing the queue length of network equipment to allow more dropping of “elephant flows” to allow reduce serving time of “mice” and “ants”.

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I’m not sure what CoDel does more than just reducing queue length. And yeah, CoDel drops packets from the front of the queue rather than the end of it.

Does it make sense? I think yes. Let’s say you are on Mauritius Telecom’s MyT LaFibre when your 50GB allowance is over. Internet becomes a pain. Facebook is taking more than 2 minutes to load. You press the reload button 5 times. When the packet of your first request is reaching Facebook server you already refreshed your page making the request stale. The server still processes the first request and sends back. Meanwhile you are waiting packets from the 5th request. If the server just drops packets from the front, the latest flows will be served. Still doesn’t make sense?

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Source: what-when-how.com

Anyways, from a hacker’s point of view, doesn’t it become easier to do Denial of Service (DoS) attacks? Let’s say Mr X just send a packet to a server. I just flood the server queue so as his request gets dropped. Sending burst data to servers can result in some sort of “VIP” service since all requests before the queue is dropped. Maybe Logan can enlighten me in the next presentation.

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CoDel however is currently being designed and tweaked for latencies not more than 100ms Logan says. Will it work in the Mauritian context where latencies are around 300-350ms? Students from universities are invited to study the mechanism and improve user experience for Mauritius and African countries.

[1] http://logan.hackers.mu/2015/08/linux-meeting-29082015
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_buffer

MyT’s LaFibre is a Tortoise

Companies make you stay 9hours in their offices: 8 hours work, 1 hour lunch break. On top of that, 3 hours lost in bus travel. You want to relax a bit when you return home, the Internet just sucks.

Orange Mauritius Speed

Orange Mauritius Speedtest

The page wouldn’t even load sometimes. Downloading a file through wget suck at 5%

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We pay fortunes per month to ISPs in Mauritius for a service like this? Lot’s of people are complaining about Emtel’s Airbox is not delivering the promised speed on Facebook. Well, MyT’s LaFibre is a pain too after the 50GB limit has been reached.

Orange promises a better life with them. The joke.