Dear all, we are urgently looking for a replacement lamp (a RLC-035) for a ViewSonic PJ513D projector. We have called a number of suppliers but they do not currently have the RLC-035 in stock.

Call Liliane or Navind on 464-7446 if you are selling one and you have it in stock now. Thanks.

Solaris was originally developed by Sun Microsystem as a proprietary operating system:

• Successor of SunOS (which was based on BSD UNIX)
• Released in 1992 (based on AT&T UNIX)
• Known for its scalability and technologies like DTrace and ZFS
• Runs on SPARC and x86 hardware
• Uses GNOME for the desktop (same as Linux)

In 2005, Sun released the source code of Solaris to the opensource community as OpenSolaris, the reference version of Solaris. Sun then released Solaris 10 with contributions from the OpenSolaris community.

When Oracle purchased Sun in 2009, they decided to stop contributing patches to OpenSolaris and continue the development of Solaris 11 as a closed project. This led to the departure of some the most eminent Solaris developers, e.g. the inventors of DTrace, ZFS, Zones & Solaris Networking, to create illumos, a foundation whose mission is to create and popularise OpenIndiana, a better Solaris than Oracle’s Solaris.

OpenIndiana is opensource and the latest release is dated October 2012. As a fork of OpenSolaris, the stated aim of the project is to become the defacto OpenSolaris distribution installed on production servers where security and bug fixes are required free of charge.

At Knowledge Seven, we provide Solaris compatible training courses to major clients using OpenIndiana. Feel free to contact us if you have similar requirements.

Knowledge Seven has the pleasure to invite you to a seminar on how to drive business forward using social networks, mobile & cloud technologies. Join us for FREE on Friday 18 January 2013 from 09:00 to 12:00 at Burrenchobay Hall, University of Mauritius.

The speakers are:

• Avinash Meetoo, Managing Director of Knowledge Seven on Driving business forward with Mobile & Cloud Technologies
• Jean Marc Desvaux, Head of Information Systems at General Construction on Driving business forward with Enterprise Application Frameworks
• Darshana Seetah, Trainer/Developer at Knowledge Seven on Driving business forward with Social Networks & Digital Marketing

Please register online by Monday 14 January to secure your seat.

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“The fundamental problem is that many products are created to be sold, not used.”  — Sori Yanagi

This is something that we have come to realise over the years. A lot of sellers are only happy to sell, they don’t really care about how you are going to use the products. For this reason, I’ve been telling people that we do not sell training courses at Knowledge Seven. We make people more skillful so that they can have a more productive and happy life.

Since launching Android Mauritius, we have also realised that quite a lot of people buy smartphones and tablets because, well, marketers have a lot of persuasion power. Unfortunately, quite a lot of those buyers find it difficult to use their new devices and this is why we are keen to try something : we are proposing a 2 hour training course on how to become a power user of your Android smartphone or tablet.

Call us on 464-7446 if you are interested. Feel free to share with your friends and family.

Knowledge Seven, in collaboration with Mozilla, hosted the first Mozilla Webmaker event in Mauritius open to all. Olivier Yip Tong, Software Engineer at Mozilla delivered a hands-on presentation of Webmaker tools, namely X-Ray Googles and Thimble, on Thursday 20th December 2012.

Mozilla Webmaker is a set of fun and easy tools to learn the Web using HTML, Javascript and CSS. The objective is to foster the next generation of web makers. With X-Ray Googles, one can explore the different components of a web page, change them, remix them and publish the changes online. Thimble provides user-friendly tools for creating one’s own web page. A wide range of templates are available for starting quickly.

The participants who were journalists, software developers and educators at various levels (primary, secondary and tertiary) are now very keen to use the Webmaker tools in their day to day activities. Nausheen, an ICT support teacher in a ZEP school is enthusiastic: “Webmaker is a great tool to use in the classroom. The kids will love it.” David, a Physics teacher, is convinced that “these tools can be easily integrated into programs because colleges already have computer labs and audio-visual facilities.”

Mozilla is a non-profit organization, based in the USA and with offices worldwide, dedicated to empower people through the Web. The global community of Mozilla users, contributors and developers work to innovate by providing software such as the world class Firefox browser. At Knowledge Seven, we strive to share expertise and knowledge with all. Like Mozilla, Knowledge Seven promotes openness, innovation & opportunities on the Web.

You may click here to view more photos of the event.

We wish you all a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2013. We hope to serve you better next year.

Knowledge Seven, in collaboration with Mozilla, invites you to a presentation of Web Maker, a set of tools to make something amazing with the web. The goal: help millions of people move from using the web only to making things on the web.

The hands-on presentation will be done by Olivier Yip Tong of Mozilla at Knowledge Seven in Quatre-Bornes this Thursday 20 December from 10:00 to 12:00. This will be a great opportunity to join a global community of creators: educators, filmmakers, journalists, developers, youth, all making and learning together.

Admission is free. As seats are limited, kindly contact Liliane Chan on 464-7446 or by email to reserve your place by Wednesday morning at latest.

I want the Internet to remain open and free. I don’t want some people and some governments to impose stupid rules on billions on us.

Read more here and here.

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At Knowledge Seven, we love Python.

We have been using Python for about one year now, in the process, have discovered quite a lot of Python libraries that we use on a daily basis. Here they are:

• Flask is a web framework which we use to build most of our (new) backends.
• SQLAlchemy is an Object-Relational Mapper.
• Requests is used to issue HTTP requests and handle responses.
• Rauth is OAuth for Python.
• BeautifulSoup and pyquery for parsing XML and HTML documents.
• Fabric for sending commands to distant servers using SSH.
• Virtualenvwrapper to create multiple Python environments (useful for testing new libraries for example).

And this is just the beginning.

Avinash Meetoo, Directeur de Knowledge Seven, a fait cette présentation sur les réseaux sociaux le Samedi 10 November 2012 aux Présidents des divers chapitres du Rotary Club de Maurice.

Avinash Meetoo, Managing-Director of Knowledge Seven, announces on national radio that students will benefit from 50% discount for all our mobile development training courses until January 2013. Christmas has started at Knowledge Seven.

This includes our Mobile Application Development with HTML5 and our Android Application Development training courses. Feel free to call us on 464-7446!

[Recorded during Le Club du Midi animated by Miguel Hermelin at Radio One]