James Chan

Just now in my office when we were working, the file server was disconnected as well as the exchange server. I thought it was just a common power failure which we experience in the past all the time and had no problem. So I went back to the server room and found out that UPS was not on (power cut off). Nothing else usual was found, so I turned it on and then the server.

So I waited and waited and the Remote Desktop Connection could not be established after 15 minutes. So I got a monitor and connected it, the strange thing was the screen prompted “DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESSURE ENTER.” My instinct told me the BIOS setting was changed, specifically the Boot Priority. So I got in BIOS setting by hitting Delete. It was actually the booting disk was missing. By the way, I have RAID 5 built in a Silicate 3124 PCI-X external card. Now the Raid was shown on BIOS setting, what do I do? I was asking myself. Read more…

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc.

Today when I opened Google’s homepage as usual, I found out that a little “Microphone” icon appeared on Google’s homepage.

After I clicked it, “Speak now” appeared.

This is one step further for Google. However, it has not been enabled in Google Hongkong, well, I checked google.co.jp, google.co.in, google.co.uk, none of these has it. You can only check out at www.google.com

I had this meeting with a client few weeks back and during the meeting, someone came in the meeting room and he is the global leader at some job function. When we talked he asked questions almost right the second after each of my sentence, like why? What? Who told you that? What is that? Instantly I told to myself “he is tough and arrogant.” It’s like almost hard to communicate with him.
For me personally I don’t know why but when I hear a question after another asking from top management “why? Is there a time problem or something?” I don’t know what to answer but to make up some excuses, I feel like I am being accused of something and it makes me feel bad. I think that kind of questioning technique can be very well used in job interview.
Can we change it to “can you make it up now? Please remember to do it next time, it’s important!” if it is important. How does this sound to you guys?
It is much better to me and I’d love to accept.
I hope I am right! Let me know your thoughts!

Yesterday I attended a spinning class, it was the first time after a long time. Well, I used to go to spinning classes to feel the energy and sweating of course.  I wore my Suunto t6d this time, and I could see my heart beating.

It started off a little high, then in the third session, it spiked at 200bpm and by the end of the class (I left the room earlier due to the high intensity), the Training Effect reaches 5.0 which is the highest level, and EPOC built up to 225 ml/kg. And a lot of fuels I just burned. I think I just over did a little bit this time.

With such high intensity work out, I will need more time to recover. In the next few days, I should not do anything too crazy before I felt fully recovered. For you guys, it is better to note that as well. One thing I want to say here is that Suunto t6d is really a nice product that you can rely on whether you are a professional athlete or sports enthusiast.

Check out this video from Youku.com first. Don’t know if you guys can view the video outside China or not, but can you honestly believe it?

First of all, it looks exactly like an iPhone 4. Secondly, everything inside looks almost 99% the same from the video. And it supports multitasking and folder like iOS 4 does, and new push notification from iOS 5, amazing. However, it is not an iPhone 4, it runs modified Android. It is incredible, how could they, on earth, do it? I don’t know how much this thing costs, but I’d like to have one in addition to my genuine iPhone 4 to get hands on experience with Android.

On the other hand, I mean is there any possibility of infringement to the copyright law or intellectual property law or something?  I am wondering.

I have to admire the copycat’s technique and creativity!

Today when I opened App Store on my iPhone, I saw a “Purchased” in Updates so I clicked it and it led me to a screen like the screenshot below:

In it it lists out the apps that I have deleted from my computer and a cloud icon on the right. I thought I removed all the apps that I did not need anymore but I didn’t. Well it may be good, or not.  Apple is fast!

Fast and Furious 5, or Fast Five was on silver screen for a month, but it was just imported recently to China. It has been a week, but I just noticed yesterday and I bought tickets immediately just to experience it coz I missed the previous 4 sequences, in theater of course.

The thing I love about Fast & Furious is that you have the opportunities to see these exotic cars racing on streets that keeps your heart beating fast. In addition, it does not keep you waiting, I mean the events timeline is very tightly arranged, fast pacing, I like that. Of course, the visual and audio effects are fantastic. If it were on IMAX, it would have been perfect.

Off the topic a little bit, I don’t know if you guys noticed from the beginning of the movie when the ATV (All-Terrain Vehicle) appears. But I do, as a mountain bike lover and a mountain biker, I could not help noticing the tiny logo of Fox in one of the forks of the ATV. I thought it was an ad  sponsored by Fox Racing Shox, but then again, it does not seem everyone says anything about it. However, it is interesting to see. To learn more about fox, you can visit www.foxracingshox.com, personally I like Fox’s suspension forks but could not afford one yet.

Have you noticed it? By the way, Fast Five rocks!

Okay, so here I am again in Tehran, Iran after 2 hours on Emirates flight from Dubai. I start to like Emirates now for its service, I watched the latest movie on the plane by the way and the meal still keeps me full. Very good.
The most unfortunate thing is that the hotel in Tehran is very bad even though it is a 5-star hotel, comparing with the 5-star hotel in Dubai, it is like 1/5 of it and it is more expensive. I don’t think I will come to Iran again unless it is really necessary! I am telling you, it is not worth the money.

It has been 2 days in Dubai, just got the internet at my client’s office. The 5-star hotel does not provide free WIFI which sucks by the way, it charges me 30 AED per hour and 60AED for 6 hours. Another thing that sucks is that Dubai blocks Skype for which I could not make cheap calls, it is very bad.
The good thing about Dubai is that it is a shopping paradise. I went to the Dubai Mall, it is the largest mall in the world. There is the Palm, the Atlantis, Dubai Tower, Burj Khalifa tower that is the tallest tower in the world. That’s Dubai, but hot, very hot.