Just like the current confusion over .cn, registrations, ICP – ICP by itself let alone in combination with others. Rules in China are one thing – but this isn’t the first time that two regulators don’t agree and have a pissing match. Or the rule creation and rule enforcement depts are thinking different things.
Jan13th2010
Is GAPP About To Drop The Hammer On Netease and World Of Warcraft?
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Business Development and China. 0 CommentsDec16th2009
Leica M9 and the definition of vicarious
Published by December 16th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsA mate from 1X.com on my insistence decided to do an un boxing of his M9 for me. It is the least he could do since we acted as counsellors and advisors on purchase and then mental distractions during the agonising wait that ensued.
Dec11th2009
The foreigner with email in China = Poor Communicator
Published by December 11th, 2009 in Business Development and China. 0 CommentsHere is an email that I was sent from a client – received from one of his staff:
“One of our contributors sent me through an urgent news story in the morning which I was completely unaware of until the end of the day – when 600 emails suddenly landed in my inbox.”
What I find funny is that email never has and never will be a synchronous and real time communications tool. Don’t people get that?
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Nov11th2009
The China Iceberg
Published by November 11th, 2009 in Business Development, China and Tech Horizon. 0 CommentsFriend and colleague Jorn Knutsen has just launched his new blog about business in China. Written from 10 years of running factories, business councils and IT start ups in China.
As they say, the tip of the iceberg misrepresents the mountain of stuff that is sitting below the surface.
Read on at http://www.chinaiceberg.com while he works out his bugs.
Nov3rd2009
When you have a server (and lets hope it is a real one and not a ZhongGuanCun job) you should enable thermal protection. Because A/C units do fail as do fans and other servers. Thermal protection will cause your systems to shut down gracefully and prevent damage to them and surrounding devices – like UPS batteries.
The following is a screen shot of a log from one client, who has a fairly large rack and a few servers for their thin client deployment. In this case the A/C failed and the servers shut down gracefully.
Oct19th2009
Got Servers? FaceBook has 30K!
Published by October 19th, 2009 in FOSS/GNU/Linux, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsGood to see that good old memcached is in use too! 
I like their ratio of engineers to users… in China it is about the opposite. We had 6 people come to change a light bulb last week. Labour is a cheap commodity – but smart use of technology will be even cheaper!
Oct19th2009
Korea and Hong Kong Cluster Deployments
Published by October 19th, 2009 in Business Development, China and The Cloud. 0 CommentsCANDIS staff have just returned from building out some redundant clusters in Korea and Hong Kong for a foreign Banking client. The whole process took 4 days, for 2 locations, 2 cities and 4 clusters. CANDIS is glad that we were able to help our clients manage the deployment with native language support and avoiding expensive travel for EU/US based engineers.
All up it was 70 servers deployed with full remote management and power and network port control.
Images can be seen over at: Cross posted to the CANDIS Group Blog.
Oct17th2009
7 Days, 4 Countries, 4 Cities, 4 Clusters and Useless AusTrade
Published by October 17th, 2009 in Business Development and China. 0 CommentsJust got back from a busy week of doing stuff in this boiler room of the world we call Asia. Installed 4 clusters for some clients in Korea and HK and then made it to a tech and trade conference in Dong Guan, southern China.
Most of it went well until we got to the AusTrade pimped trade show. I will just copy and paste the email that I sent to my cousin (Mitch Fifield) who is a federal Senator in Australia. A few of us are also going to be writing to Aus Trade directly as well. In a nutshell – more proof of how useless most government funded initiatives are and how it is just a waste of tax dollars.
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