Twitter blocked in China? I can tweet via blog-but my twitter.com page just got the infamous “connection reset” msg..lets see if it passes?
Tag Archive for 'china'
Jul3rd2009
The South China Sea Oil Rig IT set to fly
Published by July 3rd, 2009 in China and Tech Horizon. 1 CommentWell 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.
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 [...]
Jan2nd2008
Google China SysAdmin Community Launch
Published by January 2nd, 2008 in Business Development and China. 5 CommentsThis is a new initiative from Google in China. They contacted our LUG to see if there was any interest. To quote from El Presidente Fred: “I am reaching out for people with skills and/or interest in system or network administration. Google is starting a community around this theme and we were asked for the [...]
Nov15th2007
Chinese Registrars Redux
Published by November 15th, 2007 in Business Development and China. 0 CommentsFor part one, go here: http://www.utilitycomputing.com.cn/?p=41 I hate to bitch. And I hate to appear as if I am drumming up business or trying to screw other businesses. I am just trying to call it as I see it as a public service. We get maybe 3-4 clients a week transfer to us from a [...]
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