A 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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTxY2mojCs
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Dec16th2009
Leica M9 and the definition of vicarious
Published by December 16th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsDec11th2009
The foreigner with email in China = Poor Communicator
Published by December 11th, 2009 in Business Development and China. 0 Comments“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.”
Nov11th2009
The China Iceberg
Published by November 11th, 2009 in Business Development, China and Tech Horizon. 0 CommentsFriend and collegue 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.
Nov3rd2009
When you have a server (and lets hope it is a real one and not a Zhong Guan Cun 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 surround devices – like UPS batteries.
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! 
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/13/facebook-now-has-30000-servers/
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.
Oct17th2009
7 Days, 4 Countries, 4 Cities, 4 Clusters and Useless AusTrade
Published by October 17th, 2009 in Business Development and China. 0 Comments7 Days, 4 Countries, 4 Cities, 4 Clusters and Useless AusTrade
Oct1st2009
State Empire Building Lit up for China (awakens mass hysteria in under-achieving-and-looking-for-someone-to-blame-interet-forum-fauna).
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