Well 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.
Archive for the 'Tech Horizon' Category
Jul3rd2009
The South China Sea Oil Rig IT set to fly
Published by July 3rd, 2009 in China and Tech Horizon. 1 CommentJun29th2009
I finally upgraded to 2.8 from 2.2.
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.
Jan18th2008
Software as a Service, ASPing, ESPing, ISPing and many more “SP’s”
Published by January 18th, 2008 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsSoftware as a service. Sounds nice doesn’t it? How about utility computing or computing as a service? Well it is not until you actually start to UNDERSTAND it – that you get to appreciate it. All too often the pundits of tech in society (as nice as they are), like twit.tv, cnet.com and zdnet.com – [...]
Jan9th2008
China an inefficient truth
Published by January 9th, 2008 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 1 CommentI read this entry over on David Wolf’s blog before my recent trip back down under about power usage and IT infrastructure. Silicon Hutong And the topic did strike a “Hey this is real man!!!” kind of chord with me. A cathartic resonance that shall never come from me with respect to the greater greenhouse [...]
Jan9th2008
Wimax Getting Closer in Beijing! Boxes Sighted!
Published by January 9th, 2008 in China and Tech Horizon. 2 CommentsI was making a surprise visit to our data centre today to see if the mice were at play while yours truly, the big cat was away. Out the front I saw all these boxes being unloaded by the truckload. I asked what they were all for and was told that this is for the [...]
Nov5th2007
The New Virtual Infrastructure
Published by November 5th, 2007 in Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsI have been using VMWARE/BOCHS and UML for around 7 years now. And boy have things moved quickly! Most recently VMWARE announced their new products. ESX 3.5 is basically the same as ESX3, the main new feature that all people could use is the central patch management system. The feature that is really putting this [...]
Sep14th2007
China’s Olympic Data Centre
Published by September 14th, 2007 in China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsI got to go and stick my nose about a nice “Olympic Quality” (whatever that means) CNC data centre last night as my team and I ripped up and put back together a new clients ailing cluster. This place had official Olympic logo’s all over the place! And nice toilets – a rudimentary western yard [...]
Aug19th2007
Off-shoring and Fujitsu took my idea!
Published by August 19th, 2007 in Business Development, China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsIt is nice to see that I am not too “out there” in my thoughts. http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,62030996,00.htm Difference is, they are still paying too much $$$$ to over paid western IT staff that really don’t do any serious Computer Science or R+D. That’s where China comes in! Global economy people, get with it, or get left [...]
Aug6th2007
Computing on Demand
Published by August 6th, 2007 in Business Development, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsI was just talking to a client and I had to explain to him that, “You already have the RAID card in your motherboard, but you can’t use it until you buy an activation key from Dell”. This confused him. “If I have it, why do I have to pay for it?”. Well without getting [...]
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