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. Much like the stoned virus of circa 1989 that really got to me when it ruined my Wing Commander install!
Anyway – this problem gets worse with the distributed IDC/Cloud. So just add this little line to the advnced properties of any (read all) hosts.
keyboard.typematicMinDelay = 2000000
While one normally uses SSH or RDP to get to remote machines – when boot strapping, or post cloning and need to change a mac address binding or any other of small thing, this keyboard bug will drive you nuts. Especially when a 30 second downtime blows out. And all you want to do is edit 2 or 3 characters.
Breath…. please take this all and be happy as I am now. 
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.
All the relevant information is summarised here. ICP like all regulations in China is an opaque topic and can’t be summarised into a bullet point list. So please read the links below to become fully educated.
Aug12th2010
Please note that this is a notice about the application PROCEDURE. Not about the eligibility or style of ICP. Please see these posts for that information:
History of ICP
Double ICP Needed
ICP Application Procedure and Specifications
Continue reading ‘China Government Notice August 2010: ICP Application Process’
Published by richard August 9th, 2010
in China and Tech Horizon.
Was just pondering some developments of late (can’t speak publicly yet) and I thought even more about a stance that I have had for a while.
Is there any point in NOT offshoring work? Most of the best tech these days is made out of India and Asia. So why do people still bother to do Computer Science degrees in the west or learn programming?
I mean – we don’t learn how to work in factory lines anymore in the west? And for that fact anything involving the under the hood nuts and bolts or “Lego” side of technology with the cloud heavily on us. Are people really not aware of the changing world around them?
Thoughts?
Jul26th2010
Published by richard July 26th, 2010
in Business Development, China and The Cloud.
Just a quick update on ICP since that is what I get a lot of hits for – that and ESX disk woes.
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.
Well if you had the latter – get ready to go an apply for the former AS WELL and IN ADDITION to the latter. Otherwise the nice men at 5PM on a Friday on the phone will be demanding that your site is taken down. Even though you have a commercial ICP and put up the millions in RMB in registered capital required for it.
See also: http://www.utilitycomputing.com.cn/china/the-history-of-chinese-icp-and-cn-requirements
Published by richard May 20th, 2010
in Uncategorized.
Not sure when exactly this happened – I am guessing in the past 2 weeks as the Missus is declaring we need a new webcam at home so inter family video chats can resume. So all up it was about 1 year of being cut off from modern communications.
For the rest of us. Facebook (who cares), Twitter and Youtube are still blocked and flickr is as usual suffering from split pers
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.
Well it turns out that for the past two months I had only been “Deactivated”!
Deleting is a whole new option (hidden – until Jason showed me) that also needs 14 days to complete.
Getting China residence is easier than canceling citizenship to Face Book! :-s
Published by richard April 19th, 2010
in China.
Going through some old scans from last year (bit of a back log). Here is one I took of Kevin Rose (digg.com founder) when I took him out for Chaunr after a regrettably too lately planned and informed tweetup that prevented the execution of some serious piss cutting out on the town. :-s
Since Andy Ihnatko mentioned me on his blog, I do need to get his pics from Beijing up as well.
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