Yep late again The flight back seemed like it took SO much longer than the trip there. But we arrived safe and sound Tuesday about 4:30pm. We both took Wednesday off, Thursday and Friday were a blur for me. Plus this weekend was our maintenance weekend so we had to patch all the servers. I [...]

So much for posting daily updates of our progress. So here’s a condensed version: Day 2 (Friday) – Worked on completing workstation backups,  routing is working, we setup DHCP on a temp server to give out the new IP scheme. Changes the IP addresses on the servers. For lunch we were taking to a dumplings [...]

We got the mpls connection and switch setup and running with very little issue. Other than not all the routes where setup. But we could at least get back to the root of the forest. We still have to get the riverbed setup, its currently not working at any of our sites. The guys back [...]

We got to our hotel around 10pm. It looks a like a very nice hotel, but I’m not sure about the area around here. Looking out my window all the buildings look very run down. We are staying at the Royalton I slept for about 4-5 hours. Woke up around 5 and couldn’t go back [...]

We’ve made it to Japan without any real issues. Now just a 2 hour flight to Shanghai. Stuart’s handling flying ok, the 12 hour flight did wear on him. I was ready to get off the plan about 10 hours into the trip. The last two hours were a major drag. We get into Shanghai [...]

I’ll be leaving for China on Tuesday. I’ll be there for two weeks to bring one of our sites online with the mpls and reinstall all 60 of their workstations. We’ll also connect one of our small sites to this one. A lot of work for only two weeks time. I have another co-worker going [...]

Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates said on Friday beating software piracy in China and India and getting compliance up to U.S. and European levels would take 10 years. [Via ActiveWin.com Headlines]

Looks like I now have something to do in the evenings in China, as long as the internet connection in the hotel still works. The PostNuke team are pleased to announce the availablity of PostNuke 0.7.6.0, a major milestone realized on the road to 1.0. This release features significant enhacements to the .7x range of [...]

That’s right I’m in China! I’m here to help setup a network at our china location. I left Saturday morning and we didn’t get into our hotel until about 10:30pm Sunday night. I lost my entire weekend on the plane and with the time change. More to come….. jb