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Hi Friends of the Beijing GNU/Linux User Groups,

since the main BLUG webpage made a dive and traffic gets redirected here, we give you a quick overview on the important dates for the coming week:

====== Saturday 9th of April ======

Coding 4 Fun April 2011,
Already Coding for Gnome 5 and Web 4.0? Bring your project and join the BLUG’s monthly Hackathon. (There will be no hackerlab at yuanfenflow, that will be all the other Saturdays). Spend a nice and beautiful day in an relaxed environment to mingle and exchange with like minded people!

Time: 9th of April, 11:00 to 18:00
Location: exoweb Office, check the link below if you come for the first time.
Link with map:  http://www.exoweb.com/en/contact/

====== Saturday 9th of April ======

北京GNOME用户组 BEIJING GNOME USER GROUP celebrates Gnome 3 Release Party

Gnome 3.0 has been released on the 6th of  April 20011. It is the most significant upgrade of Gnome in 9 years. It incorporated the most innovative gnome components like Gnome Shell and Activity Journal.

The author of Ubuntu-tweak says: True hackers uses Gnome 3.

To celebrate the event, Beijing Gnome User Group co-organize the gnome 3.0 launch party with Opensource  Association of China Academic of Science. In the event features of gnome 3.0 are to be presented, as well as how to write extensions for Gnome Shell. There will be a video meeting with Taiwan Gnome user group and Hong Kong gnome user group too.

The event is further assisted by Beijing Linux User group to host booths and by TuringBook.com of their books as gifts.

Time: 9th of April, 14:00 to 18:00 (real time, so get there earlier is appreciated)
Location: China Academy of Science the Zhongguancun campus, classroom
building S206 (保福寺桥南中科院中关村校区教学楼S206)
Link with map:  http://www.bjgug.org/node/612

======Tuesday 12th of April 2011 ======

Monthly BLUG Meeting April 2011 and Gnome 3 Relesase Party

The Beijing Gnu/Linux User Groups will be celebrating a GNOME 3 Release Party Come here for brief introductions on GNOME 3 and Hands on Experience on some ready installed Gnome 3 System to try. We hope for nice input fromeveryone who comes and can’t wait for some discussions about and over Gnome 3.
We’ll be providing Gnome 3 Live-CD images for you to try Gnome3 on your own kit and some advice on how to do it.
Don’t hesitate to bring the Desktop Environment you like to compare with!

Time: 12th of April, 19:00 till (usually very) late
Location: Traktir Pushkin on GuiJie close to Dongzhimen Station. Dongzimen Neijie.
Link to a map:  http://www.xuedi.de/QC/map.png

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Hope you find something interesting to join.
Have good week!

What a week, first of all the beloved opencamp turned into to a sterile, boring, sponsored university lecture event without any charm, then ubuntu fucked up 10.10 netbook remix very badly.

Ok lets start two years ago, my first open/barcamp event, it was in a nice study bar, very affordable prices, they had food and drinks, a nice screen, two lecture room and many cool and nice people. You could easily meet new people, had a chat, change tables and discuss with others. Now 2010 and the last opencamp event, first of all, it is impossible to run a open office presentation, you have to have a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation to hold your open source talk, and no other way possible (some days before at SFD openoffice in the same room was working fine), then boring corporate lectures (some), no food, no power, no wifi but boring atmosphere.

Very sad, it was a truly great event before …

Then ubuntu 10.10 … oh oh oh canonical what have you done …  Since 6.4 every version kept getting faster and better, 10.4 with its netbook remix made me even move from my ‘awesome wm on gentoo’ back to ubuntu.

Now you have the not removable or changeable ‘unity’ dock and ‘mutter wm’. It takes 2 seconds longer to load than the normal gnome desktop?!? Did i missed something here? Neetbook remix used to stand for: fast and light weight small screen optimized interface… It works well on a heavy desktop system with 1G nvidia grafic card, but if your netbook don’t have 3D hardware the new unity dock is slow as hell and even hangs time by time.

If you start the netbook 2D thing you get the ‘old’ working system, but with icons that are 2 as bis as a menue entry and it is much more slow than the 10.4 interface.

I can understand that canonical waned to push some gnome 3 technologies into this release like ‘mutter’ but this is absolutely pre-alpha software!!

now it is ubuntu 10.10 with awesome-wm and if there is a ubuntu system (non-interface) bug it will be back again plain clean gentoo, if there is something broken at least i know what and why, because i did it … or maybe back to 10.4 maybe …

Hoping for more pleasant things to happen …
xuedi

P.S.
Later on at the opencamp after party it was nicer, free food and some beers, unluckily not every speaker had the pleasure … Sorry for the harsh words …

There are some good guides in the wiki, but they use sfdisk and you have to calculate the blocks yourself, what a pain, here is the way how to install fdisk on tn N900

cd /root
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.13.1.1-1_armel.deb
dpkg-deb -x util-linux_2.13.1.1-1_armel.deb root
cp root/sbin/fdisk .
rm -r root/
rm util-linux_2.13.1.1-1_armel.deb

In general it from huge advantage if you have a MicroSD card, then you can copy your MyDocs and the /home stuff first and can delete both partitions, after reboot you are totally free to repartinion as you like, after that mount the new partitions, copy the backup back where they belong and reboot again. It worked well if you change the design, for ex. have the vfat on the secon part, but some 3rd party< programms might not like it, so better keep it: part.1=cfat (MyDocs), part.2=linux (Home), part.3=swap. my actual partition table looks like this:

1. 3G vfat
2. 27G ext3
3. rest swap