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govmu.org: How do I recover my username on the government portal?

Rs 50 millions were spent on making this “web portal”. At the time of writing, internal links are still pointing to gov.mu domain despite the fact that they have migrated to govmu.org. The irony is that contracted company got paid again for the recent URL change.

NTA Fitness still old
http://nta.govmu.org/English/Procedures/Pages/Vehicle-Examination.aspx (18/04/2016)

Anyways, I want to actually use the system. Let’s try to login:

Login on govmu.org

Do you really have username as the “primary key” in your stupid database? I don’t remember my username! It didn’t allow me to use my favorite username at the time of creation because it’s too short.What do I do now? Oh, there is a “Password Forgotten” link below. Let’s have a look at it:

Recover password on govmu.org

NIC Number: OK. It’s on my ID card
Email: I know.
Username: How the fuck will i recall this? There is no “recover username” option. Was this website designed by people who don’t know normalize tables? Or they copied the template of the login form from League of Legends forum or something?

My government spent my money of making an e-Service platform that I CAN’T FUCKING USE!

Oh oh oh. Some might say I just criticize. Why don’t I move my a$$ to help make the website better since I’m an IT professional. Well, put the whole govmu.org source code on Github so that we can amend it for free! Yes. For free!!!

Maybe free means no commission for you Mr the Ministers.

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My CHiLi Internet stops working randomly

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Sittin’ in car waitin’.

3G data enabled on the chili SIM.

But the internet is not working.

Chili Data

The reason being a mystery even for chili techies.

I once brought the phone at the general headquarter office. They couldn’t diagnose it. They said my settings were correct. They didn’t have a spare micro-sim in the office to check too. Disappointing.

Do you also face such issues too? As much as I want to love chili, I’m getting disappointed. All I need is internet. If CHiLI can’t give me this, why should I keep CHiLi? I’m tired of Orange holding the monopoly in Mauritius.

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Ajinomoto

Lot’s of things going on in my mind. “The government of Mauritius has gone crazy,” people are murmuring. Mauritians, powerless, just watching the dramas unfold before them. We, humans of planet earth, are trained to “consume”.  Television, Facebook newsfeeds, newspapers and all are easy for us. Few are those who have the ability to “create” something.

The Banning of Ajinomoto

I don’t really care much about Ajinomoto. But the current Minister of Industry, Commerce and Consumer Protection, Mr Ashit Gungah, wants to ban it for some random reason [1]. He says the product detrimental to public health. How much do you really care about public health? Doesn’t cigarette cause problems? A quick search on Google about Ajinomoto shows no concrete evidence of Monosodium glutamate begin harmful to health. Certain countries believe it to be dangerous so did Mr Ashit Gungah [2]. Some doctors said it is totally fine [3]. Are the ministers just doing “stuffs” to show they deserve the more than Rs 100,000 salary per month taken from us?

Leave us to decide for ourselves what’s good for us and what’s not!!!

Where is the Ministry of Health in all these? Does he have a word to say? Who is the Ministry of Health to begin with?

[1] http://www.govmu.org/English/News/Pages/Consumer-Protection-Laws-under-review,-says-Minister-Gungah.aspx

[2] http://www.govmu.org/English/News/Pages/Consumer-Protection-Laws-under-review,-says-Minister-Gungah.aspx

[3] http://www.lexpress.mu/article/274431/lajinomoto-bientot-banni-assiettes

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The Lunchbox (2013)

Wonderful movie. We grow old each day. We work. Work. We are interested in Gross Domestic Product (GPD) but nothing about Gross Family Happiness. We as humans do know what we want. But government make us think we need to pump their stats so as we become “rich”. At the end, we just worked. They enjoy everything.

Anyways, back to the movie, some striking dialogues:

“We forget things if we have no one to tell them to”

“The wrong train sometimes brings you to the right destination”

And yeah. In the movie, a woman complains to a guy about a delivery service. The guy says there is no fault in our system. A guy from Harvard came to audit it. Now I know from where the Mauritian mentality of importing foreign experts come from. LOL 😛

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Linux enthusiast detained by Cyber Crime Unit of Mauritius

Dunno the reason. It is Saturday night. I’m made aware of my friend Ish is currently being detained by Cyber Crime Unit of Mauritus. Why did they detain him at this hour?

Recently, Ian Murdock, founder of Debian was arrested by police and reports say he was brutalised too. He committed himself to fight against police brutality. He was later found dead. There was no “official” reason announced for the cause of his death.

Ish too is a Free and Open Source advocate, well loved by the Linux community of Mauritius. I do not want history to repeat itself. I hope Ish is being questioned by his lawyers by his side and the Policemen are polite and professional. Brutality, physical or mental torture will not be appreciated at all.

Be strong Ish.