Archive for the 'The Cloud' Category

Aug25th2010

VMWARE Keyboard Repeating Madness

This issue has bugged me for well over 5 years. VMWARE has some weird issue – mainly with Linux hosts where the keyoard goes crazy and a single key press cause a million entries to appear.

Aug12th2010

China ICP FAQ

There seems to be a lot of confusion and old information floating around about what is or isn’t an ICP may be and what is needed to get one and then as announced today – additional steps needed during the actual application process.

Aug12th2010

China Government Notice August 2010: ICP Application Process

With new regulations enforced by MIIT, Internet Service Providers are obliged to conform to the current ICP application procedure. Specifications are as follows:

Jul26th2010

Double ICP Needed

Previosuly you would have to decide between a “normal” ICP as needed for all business online properties. Or a “commerical” ICP for doing trades/shopping cart/ecommerce.

May20th2010

Zaijian Facebook

Jason Calicanis sent out an email recently that reinforced what I had already thought. Get out of facebook. Delete and see that useless molasses of nothingness get what it deserves.

Nov3rd2009

Thermal Failure Protection

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!

Good 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

CANDIS staff have just returned from building out some redundant clusters in Korea and Hong Kong for a foreign Banking client.