Feb7th2012
I will get back into this now that things start to settle down. A bit to also talk about in China and most importantly now that I am in Australia. I am gaining a better understanding of China as I can compare and contrast. A whole new insight so to speak.
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?
Dec14th2010
Published by richard December 14th, 2010
in Tech Horizon and The Cloud.
Had a good tour of the EQUNIX facility in Sydney today. Been to a few around the world and yet again the structure, layout and operation procedures are identical to all. The McDonalds of IDC’s?
In any case, it is now not the case that a business can register a domain name. Get this. Businesses are NOT ALLOWED to own .CN domain names. ONLY INDIVIDUALS. I’ll let you all ponder why that may be the case. It is about as hard as figuring out why BBQ’s attract flies.
Aug25th2010
Published by richard August 25th, 2010
in The Cloud.
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.
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
With new regulations enforced by MIIT, Internet Service Providers are obliged to conform to the current ICP application procedure. Specifications are as follows:
Published by richard July 26th, 2010
in Business Development, China and The Cloud.
Previously you would have to decide between a “normal” ICP as needed for all business online properties. Or a “commercial” ICP for doing trades/shopping cart/ecommerce.
May20th2010
Published by richard May 20th, 2010
in The Cloud.
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.
Published by richard November 3rd, 2009
in China and The Cloud.
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
Published by richard October 19th, 2009
in FOSS/GNU/Linux, Tech Horizon and The Cloud.
Good to see that good old memcached is in use too!
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/13/facebook-now-has-30000-servers/
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