facebook.com blocked in China.
This time it is not even the “Connection Reset” usual suspect. Nothing is happening so I am guessing DNS poisoning.
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Jul7th2009
Another Take Down for “Illegal Content”
Published by July 7th, 2009 in Business Development and China. 0 CommentsWe do have one client though, who has a social media site based around book reviews, summaries and content quality. Well it is a recipe for problems. Today we had a govt take down notice because a book title “The Dirty Nature of the Chinese Government” was summarised by some Chinese speaking person somewhere in the world.
Jul6th2009
OK – GPRS works for Twitter… IDC doesn’t on CNC – does on China Telecom – office doesn’t
Published by July 6th, 2009 in China. 0 CommentsThis makes me laugh when overseas China tech “experts” say the “Great Firewall”. There is NO FIREWALL. There is a VERY DECOUPLED and de cntralised filtering system that often gives different results on different networks and at different times.
Jul6th2009
Twitter blocked in China? I can tweet via blog-but my twitter.com page just got the infamous “connection reset” msg..lets see if it passes?
Jul3rd2009
The South China Sea Oil Rig IT set to fly
Published by July 3rd, 2009 in China and Tech Horizon. 1 CommentWell two of our engineers passed their safety training today after a long course. They are now licenced to go on oil rigs and make the 2 hour helicopter flight out to the oil rigs.
Jul2nd2009
Well m recipe was good. I just have to find it again. While no one forgets to ride a bike – my brain can’t keep all the tech stuff that is life current and in the level one cache of my cerebral cortex. I need to push stuff out to swap now and then. But to close up this lame virtual memory metaphor…. I have a serious case of page fault right now. 
Jun29th2009
I finally upgraded to 2.8 from 2.2.
May11th2009
I was talking with the other expat tech in the office today and thought to myself, “Who is the domain registrar for google?” Thinking to myself it is probably network solutions (the ONLY place BTW to register .cn domain names if you want even a modicum of control over them). Well I fired up a [...]
Mar25th2009
CANDIS got a mention in a Drupal.org write up for our work with TheBeijinger.com
Published by March 25th, 2009 in Business Development, China, FOSS/GNU/Linux and The Cloud. 2 CommentsWhile no way near as cool or professional as my stint in CNN a couple of years back. It is still cool though; http://drupal.org/node/357715
Oct21st2008
Busy Bee, China Storage Fabric, Thin Clients, iSCSI SAN’s and more
Published by October 21st, 2008 in Business Development, China and The Cloud. 0 CommentsBeen a bit busy of late. Many new clients and some large contracts (our largest to date). Our utility infrastructure has grown a lot too. Some of the projects and services that we are working on now and hope to launch very soon are:
May27th2008
Ever wondered where all that disk space has gone? Why the 100GB drive is not 100GB? Well apart from some systems using GiB and others GB and then some manufacturers using base10 and not base3 and saying that 1GB is 1000MB and not 1024 – I have found another one. When making a file system [...]
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