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Archive for the 'China' Category
Dec11th2009
The foreigner with email in China = Poor Communicator
Published by December 11th, 2009 in Business Development and China. 0 CommentsNov11th2009
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
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).
Oct1st2009
Tiananmen Fireworks and CCTV broadcast delay
Aug18th2009
Currently locally hosted sites work – but if this goes on like last time – even they will fail because DNS will fail because there are no root servers for DNS in China, most registrars are also not in China and well… you get the idea. No point being able to connect if you do not know where to connect!
Aug17th2009
iPhone in China September 1st 2009?
Published by August 17th, 2009 in China and Tech Horizon. 0 CommentsI went into my local China Mobile Shop and the accompanying China Unicom shop (next door) yesterday to get the wife a new phone. Seeing as my monthly bill would pay for three contracts out right – we might as well get something back out of it – as opposed to just a Gold VIP Card that only works in select airport lounges around China and god forbid if you are on a flight later than 8PM and want a free coffee or cold drink or foot bath….
Jul21st2009
Xinjiang, China Internet Block to last until October 1st 2009, Face Book and Twitter?
Published by July 21st, 2009 in China. 45 CommentsAccording to the local media in China, things flared up 2 days ago again. So while internet restrictions were about to be lifted the current official line is October 1st – China National Day – is when the blocks will be lifted.
Jul18th2009
Been a busy week for visiting tech celebs here in Beijing. First Kevin Rose and his tea tour group and now Andy Ihnatko.
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