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Mauritius Telecom/Orange Takes 16 Days to Repair Their Crap.

Mauritius Telecom ColumnThe connection box of Mauritius Telecom on the column doesn’t has a cover. My Internet connection was very choppy. I registered a complaint on 3rd this month. After 2 days, i lose my phone dial tone completely. A technician came and diagnosed the column. They found the wires to be of very bad state. They said another team should come and replace the whole connection box. But the team never came. I kept calling the customer care and they said there was some underground fault which will take time to fix.

On the 17th, i called them as per my routine and they told me the complaint was marked as solved on 15th by Mauritius Telecom techinician themselves. They did NOT even contact me to confirm whether the problem was really solved :@

They put another complaint for me. Then another technician came, saw the lines were not placed correctly in the column. Fixed it.

Can’t believe it took them so much time to fix this. And guess what? The box on the column stayed as it is. I don’t think they will replace it soon.

Anyways, we’re stuck with Orange for Internet. Emtel is not interested in targeting the mass. They are more interested in providing for corporate users. Meanwhile, Bharat Telecom proved to be liars with their Rs 280 for 10mbps promise. Mauritius Telecom is taking the maximum juice out of people as much as it can.

F*** YOU Orange/MT!!!

 

Now, i’ve yet to negociate how much they are going to compensate me for unavailability of this crappy service. :-/

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Writing my First KRunner Plugin ft. MySQL Connection

Finally managed to make a KRunner plugin linking my Web Tech 2 project’s database. It allows the user to search the database from anywhere.

Quick Recipe KRunnerIt is really easy to do it. I followed this guide from KDE website: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/PythonRunner

To make it access the database, you need to import the Python/MySQL connector

import mysql.connector

We write the codes to query the database and send the results to KRunner. q contains the text the user input.

Writing KRunner plugin with MySQL query
When its done, we compile it and install it:

plasmapkg –type runner –install ./

It’s done 🙂

Here’s the source code: qr_runner

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Voting in Mauritian Municipal Election

This is the first time i went voting. I was quite surprised that they don’t ask for National Identity card when you go in the voting centers. They just ask you your name and 2 persons remove your name from their lists.

I didn’t know anyone whom i voted. Just recognized the famous symbols and gave them votes according to the pamphlets they were distributing. Some pamphlets were just some abstract words and editorials. I tend to ignore them.

Write what you will do point wise! I am NOT interested in reading long editorials about frauds and mismanagement and promises about a better management. Say WHAT you want to do and HOW will you do it!!! >.<

Anyways, whosoever get elected, wish you best of luck. Don’t forget to

1. Listen to the people

2. Work hard for the people, not for your own pockets

We would be grateful 🙂