Published by richard July 7th, 2009
in Business Development and China.
ICP threats are a normal part of doing business in China. Licence here, registration there – it is more of a paper work thing than anything else.
We do have one client though, who has a social media site based around book reviews, summaries and content quality. Well it is a recipe for problems. Today we had a govt take down notice because a book was summarised by some Chinese speaking person somewhere in the world.
Now the content in question was not even on the site or servers – it was just a summary – smells a lot like a certain search engine that is having troubles recently in China (I am referring to google) even though the same search queries on BAIDU return the same results almost and the same … problems….but I digress.
Continue reading ‘Another Take Down for “Illegal Content”’
Jul6th2009
Published by richard July 6th, 2009
in China.
This makes me laugh when overseas China tech “experts” say the “Great Firewall”. There is NO FIREWALL. There is a VERY DE COUPLED and de centralised filtering system that often gives different results on different networks and at different times.
So the office on CNC does not – so this is a CNC problem…
This is why I always tell clients, don’t cheap out on the cheapest hosting – always host in an IDC that is dual homed to both CNC and CT and will pass traffic between the two networks (and others) because Chinese network providers charge each other to peer traffic – as such it is often slow or limited.
Another China day. Back to work.
UPDATE: Fully blocked now…seems at the gateway, tests show dropped packets and not the usual local area filtering “TCP Reset” style of error.
Published by richard July 6th, 2009
in China.
It has been 30 mins now and it has not come back which usually happens after 1-2 mins if it is a temp thing with the automatic sniffing…. 30 mins sounds kind of “official” to me… 
Something has been up today though – the transfer speeds between our Hong Kong and Beijing IDC’s as well as Hong Kong to our Nanjing IDC has been VERY slow and spotty. In that the speed fluctuates a lot. Something that backbone fibre should not do.
Jul3rd2009
Published by richard July 3rd, 2009
in China and Tech Horizon.
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. Know how to use a life vest, survival suit, life boat, jump 200 feet from a rig into the water, etc.
SCADA (System Control And Data Aquisiton) systems are great – you can see what the make up of your oil is and how it is flowing the second it pops out. But someone has to go and set it all up. I’m just glad that it is not me… then again with a broken ankle I am not much good anyhow.
Published by richard July 2nd, 2009
in FOSS/GNU/Linux.
Well I have to install tomcat again for a client. I ran a bunch of massive tomcat farms for a client before and for the life of me I can’t find my self made documentation. The thing is, tomcat an java can be installed about, well, 10 billion different ways. And they all have problems and benefits with respect to support, upgrading and linking with other systems like apache.
Well my 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 as an IT pro current and in the level one cache of my cerebral cortex always. I need to push stuff out to swap now and then.
But to close up this lame virtual memory metaphor for my brain….. I have a serious page fault right now.
Jun29th2009
Published by richard June 29th, 2009
in Tech Horizon.
I finally upgraded to 2.8 from 2.2. I have new sitemap generators in, my various social networks plugged in, my syndication (almost) fixed again now that feedburner is no longer blocked in China. Most of my widgets, jeromes keywords tags and the like came over OK. Just need to work on the fonts and colours and add in a few more front page and back end stuff. And I will be with the times.
Also put in the new header that I made along with the old one 3 years ago – but never used. Good spring clean!
Published by richard May 11th, 2009
in Uncategorized.
I was talking with the other expat tech in the office today and thought to myself, “Who is the domain registrar for google?” Thinking to myself it is probably network solutions (the ONLY place BTW to register .cn domain names if you want even a modicum of control over them).
Well I fired up a new tab in my always open terminal and hilarity ensued. I could not work it out. I thought at first that maybe this text response that I got was to stop the registrar being hassled with google problems.
No.
Turns out that the OSX whois command likes to do a bit of regular expression matching on my behalf.
Try it yourself….
Terminal > Whois google.com > Enter > Laugh
Mar25th2009
While 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
Published by richard October 21st, 2008
in Business Development, China and The Cloud.
Been a bit busy of late. Many new clients and some large contracts (our largest to date). Our utility infrastructure has grown a lot too. Some of the projects and services that we are working on now and hope to launch very soon are:
Continue reading ‘Busy Bee, China Storage Fabric, Thin Clients, iSCSI SAN’s and more’
May27th2008
Published by richard May 27th, 2008
in Uncategorized.
Ever wondered where all that disk space has gone? Why the 100GB drive is not 100GB?
Well apart from some systems using GiB and others GB and then some manufacturers using base10 and not base3 and saying that 1GB is 1000MB and not 1024 – I have found another one.
When making a file system that is not your root file system (/) or var (/var) or root (/root), etc – say a second drive or partition used for something else, try to format with the “-m 0″ command so that 5% is not reserved for the root user.
On a 1024GB array – say 1TB – that is a whopping ~52GB!!
Also if you will have many files in said system, also throw in the “-O dir_index” flag too, to enable hash tree’s for directory look ups – =big= speed increase.
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