Australia – you need to embrace INNOVATION and self driven productivity and not being glorified LEGO builders. Otherwise I can’t see how Australia will have any IT industry left over?
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Apr7th2011
What is wrong with IT practitioners in Australia?
Published by April 7th, 2011 in Business Development, FOSS/GNU/Linux and The Cloud. 0 CommentsOct19th2009
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/
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. 
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
Mar8th2008
Open Office Conference Confirmed for Beijing
Published by March 8th, 2008 in Business Development, China, FOSS/GNU/Linux and Tech Horizon. 0 CommentsYay! Go read www.beijinglug.org for more. Now if only IDG could put on a half decent Linux World instead of the token crap they excrete out like a constipated hippo.
Feb13th2008
What is the net? Where is it going? Where is freedom?
Published by February 13th, 2008 in FOSS/GNU/Linux. 1 CommentWow! What a great discussion tonight at the BLUG! Sorry if I talked too much. Sorry if the other Aussies did like wise. It is very Australian to just tell it how it is and not filter for PC or sensitivities. Anyway, here is an excellent read from Cory Doctorow that I recently read. No [...]
Dec3rd2007
Ever had a situation like this: Select from database ID where name = RICHARD; Returns and ID of 55 for example. Then go and do a query like this: Select * from some_other_table where ID = 55; Returns, “Sorry does not exist, time to die…..” Well apparently indexes when corrupt – which is NOT SUPPOSED [...]
Nov5th2007
gam_server ruining your IO throughput? Context switches hitting 8,000 a second?
Published by November 5th, 2007 in FOSS/GNU/Linux. 0 CommentsThis hit me today. The “gam_server” process. Set to identify when any file in the system is changed. A useful action that has benefits. But not when it does it 3-5 times per second and the sever is serving NFS and PostgreSQL! To fix it, just ensure that somewhere in /etc/ (RedHat Base) or /etc/gamin/ [...]
Oct7th2007
Thought I should write something tech for a change! It is golden week here and all are away on break. So instead of forcing a staff member to come back, I thought I would take care of some stuff myself. My problems started when a client who has a large advertising cluster, was running their [...]
Sep16th2007
Beijing Software Freedom Day: A fire breathing Dragon of a success!
Published by September 16th, 2007 in China and FOSS/GNU/Linux. 4 CommentsWell, we came, we championed, we explained, we lobbied and we taught. We laughed, we gathered, we swapped tales and we helped clear up some misconceptions. The sun was out, the sky was blue(ish – not bad by Beijing’s standards) and the students were happy and eager to learn what was going on and to [...]
Sep14th2007
Software Freedom Day Reminder…
Published by September 14th, 2007 in China and FOSS/GNU/Linux. 0 CommentsIt is coming up this weekend!! Click HERE for more info from my previous post.
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