I have been using VMWARE/BOCHS and UML for around 7 years now. And boy have things moved quickly! Most recently VMWARE announced their new products. ESX 3.5 is basically the same as ESX3, the main new feature that all people could use is the central patch management system. The feature that is really putting this [...]
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Nov5th2007
The New Virtual Infrastructure
Published by November 5th, 2007 in Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsNov3rd2007
ICP Certificates, Beijing Linux User Group Compliance
Published by November 3rd, 2007 in Business Development and China. 1 CommentWell, the thing is, in China, you have to have a licence to have a website, called an ICP. It costs money if you are commercial, even more money if an e-commerce site, as well as a bank deposit with a certain amount of registered capital. For non commercial entities it is free and no [...]
Oct7th2007
Thought I should write something tech for a change! It is golden week here and all are away on break. So instead of forcing a staff member to come back, I thought I would take care of some stuff myself. My problems started when a client who has a large advertising cluster, was running their [...]
Sep14th2007
China’s Olympic Data Centre
Published by September 14th, 2007 in China, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsI got to go and stick my nose about a nice “Olympic Quality” (whatever that means) CNC data centre last night as my team and I ripped up and put back together a new clients ailing cluster. This place had official Olympic logo’s all over the place! And nice toilets – a rudimentary western yard [...]
Sep3rd2007
Excellent Results! CPU System load was DOWN. This is due to much better disk IO (reduced wait times) and as such, user processes get to breath and send stuff back to clients in a speedy fashion.
Aug6th2007
Computing on Demand
Published by August 6th, 2007 in Business Development, Tech Horizon and The Cloud. 0 CommentsI was just talking to a client and I had to explain to him that, “You already have the RAID card in your motherboard, but you can’t use it until you buy an activation key from Dell”. This confused him. “If I have it, why do I have to pay for it?”. Well without getting [...]
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