Oct19th2009
Published by richard October 19th, 2009
in Business Development, China and The Cloud.
CANDIS staff have just returned from building out some redundant clusters in Korea and Hong Kong for a foreign Banking client. The whole process took 4 days, for 2 locations, 2 cities and 4 clusters. CANDIS is glad that we were able to help our clients manage the deployment with native language support and avoiding expensive travel for EU/US based engineers.
All up it was 70 servers deployed with full remote management and power and network port control.
Images can be seen over at: Cross posted to the CANDIS Group Blog.
Published by richard October 17th, 2009
in Business Development and China.
Just got back from a busy week of doing stuff in this boiler room of the world we call Asia. Installed 4 clusters for some clients in Korea and HK and then made it to a tech and trade conference in Dong Guan, southern China.
Most of it went well until we got to the AusTrade pimped trade show. I will just copy and paste the email that I sent to my cousin (Mitch Fifield) who is a federal Senator in Australia. A few of us are also going to be writing to Aus Trade directly as well. In a nutshell – more proof of how useless most government funded initiatives are and how it is just a waste of tax dollars.
Continue reading ’7 Days, 4 Countries, 4 Cities, 4 Clusters and Useless AusTrade’
Oct1st2009
Published by richard October 1st, 2009
in China.
State Empire Building Lit up for China (awakens mass hysteria in under-achieving-and-looking-for-someone-to-blame-interet-forum-fauna).
Flickr Photo
My spasm of reality @enfeebledwesterners
Continue reading ‘China Fears and Lazy Westerners…’
Published by richard October 1st, 2009
in China.
Watching the celebrations on the TV tonight and I noticed that the sound out the window was in perfect sync with the fireworks explosions on the TV.
So here is the challenge. I live near Ci Yuan Si. What is the CCTV broadcast delay then?
Tools available for use, google earth, calculator, brain.
Aug18th2009
Published by richard August 18th, 2009
in China and The Cloud.
Well it is getting worse.
Is it the fact that the APCN-2 cable was severed in Taiwan again from the typhoon/earthquake?
Is it China Telecom with poor BGP? (Confirmed from our provider)
Is it the October 1st anniversary coming up?
Is it another batch of Edison Chen nude starlet photos doing the rounds?
Continue reading ‘China Internet Cut Off’
Published by richard August 17th, 2009
in China and Tech Horizon.
I 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….
But I digress. I thought that my 4 Year old Nokia E61 could do with an upgrade. I have coveted an iPhone for a while but held off due to price (out of principle a phone does not deserve that much money) and for lack of a keyboard.
Continue reading ‘iPhone in China September 1st 2009?’
Aug17th2009
Published by richard August 17th, 2009
in Business Development.
Published by richard July 21st, 2009
in China.
According 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.
Right now there is no internet service in all of Xinjiang. This is confirmed by my relatives there. Of course we don’t know if GPRS or CDMA data access is blocked. People can always use a modem to and dial up to a POP in another city – but the point isn’t about stopping people like myself, that in 1999 unwired their hotel room phone jack in order to hook up a modem and dial out.
Continue reading ‘Xinjiang, China Internet Block to last until October 1st 2009, Face Book and Twitter?’
Jul18th2009
Published by richard July 18th, 2009
in China.
Been a busy week for visiting tech celebs here in Beijing!
First Kevin Rose and his tea tour group and now Andy Ihnatko. Well it was a long day (especially with a not yet quite right broken ankle on the mend) but well worth it to be able to both meet Andy, give him the insiders tour and satisfy any man’s most basic, bestial and testosterone fuelled primal desires of the flesh………..look at rows of knock off iPhones (and ipones and ifawns) and help bargain them down to the lowest price!
Continue reading ‘Taking Andy Ihnatko around MY Beijing’
Published by richard July 16th, 2009
in China.
Awesome night. Feeling a bit seedy now as I get ready for my 11am – however met a bunch of cool people that share this city with me and of course Kevin, Tim and Glenn. Like most tech meet ups in China, Australians tend to be over represented – though I hope we were well behaved.
I kept telling Kevin that I was trying hard not to blow smoke up his rear, but he really is a down to earth, friendly and an interesting guy. He has a real passion for tech (and tea) and the experiences that we could show him of our beloved Beijing. Of course with more time and more notice you can really roll out the red carpet.
Continue reading ‘Tweetup Beijing with Kevin Rose, Tim Ferriss and Glenn Mcelhose’
Jul7th2009
Published by richard July 7th, 2009
in China.
There goes the flickr image servers as well. The fall out from Xinjiang continues.
Flickr works still for chat and forums – but no images.
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