Christina, Anya, Kyan and I heve just spent three days and two nights at Le Mauricia from 9 to 11 August. Rooma and Suneelah joined us on the second day and we have a great time despite the weather being not very favourable. Here are some photos we took:
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At Le Maritim Hotel
Christina, Anya, Kyan and I were at Maritim Hotel in Balaclava from Tuesday to Thursday last week from 2 to 4 August. Despite a few shortcomings at the hotel, we had a great time and the food was very good. Here are some photos we took:
Our third PC bought in 2005 in Mauritius

This would be our last custom PC after the first one bought in France in 1997 and the second one bought in Mauritius in 2003. We purchased the following components:
- Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
- Motherboard: Abit KV8 Pro
- RAM: 2Gb
- Storage: 160Gb HD
- Video: Inno3D Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
- Audio: Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96
For the first time ever, I had a 64-bits processor, the fantastic AMD Athlon 64 with AMD64 technology. The processor would boot into 32-bits mode and Linux would transition it to 64-bits where it became a completely different (and much better) processor. In fact, Intel would license the AMD64 technology after some time. At that time, I was running Gentoo Linux in 64-bits mode and it rocked!
I also had a whopping 2Gb of RAM which was a lot for the era.
I purchased the Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 to run X-Plane 9 under Linux and it worked really great on the PC (and also on the iMac I would buy a few years later).
Finally, the PC also had a Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96 which was a professional audio interface. It came with a break out box which took one bay of the computer. This had a number of connectors including audio ins and outs (in both analog and digital), a microphone number (with a good preamp), a headphone out and two MIDI ports (which I used with my trusty Kawai K4 synthesizer). I remember paying a large chunk of money to purchase the Terratec but I had a great time composing music using it.
I sold the Terratec to a friend of my brother-in-law when I moved to an Apple iMac in 2011 and, shortly after, purchased a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (which is still running great!)