Anthony Wong » Beijing http://blog.anthonywong.net Imagine Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:28:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Release Talk http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/05/09/debian-gnulinux-40-release-presentation/ http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/05/09/debian-gnulinux-40-release-presentation/#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 07:49:33 +0000 anthony http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/05/09/debian-gnulinux-40-release-presentation/ Last night I gave a short presentation at Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG) on the Debian project and the new Etch release. As Roy Chan had given a talk about the new release in the Hong Kong Debian Etch release party, I asked for his permission to use his slides for this talk, and he happily agreed. I made some modifications to his slides and cut out the part about Linux introduction, you can find the presentation slides in OpenOffice.org 2 format here, PDF version here. In the meeting Darren mentioned the idea of using peer-to-peer technology in apt, so that users don’t need to set any repositories in the configuration, this is a very good idea, and coincidentally there is a Google Summer of Code project on this topic.

]]> http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/05/09/debian-gnulinux-40-release-presentation/feed/ 0 北京提升寬頻速度，勁！ http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/03/20/%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e5%8a%a0%e5%bf%ab%e5%af%ac%e9%a0%bb%e9%80%9f%e5%ba%a6%ef%bc%8c%e5%8b%81%ef%bc%81/ http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/03/20/%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e5%8a%a0%e5%bf%ab%e5%af%ac%e9%a0%bb%e9%80%9f%e5%ba%a6%ef%bc%8c%e5%8b%81%ef%bc%81/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:11:18 +0000 anthony http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/03/20/%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e5%8a%a0%e5%bf%ab%e5%af%ac%e9%a0%bb%e9%80%9f%e5%ba%a6%ef%bc%8c%e5%8b%81%ef%bc%81/ Beijing ADSL speeds up

北京网通嘅寬頻用家真係幸福，宜家用緊 512K broadband 嘅用家可以免費加速到 1 M 咁多，好勁！睇嚟到香港有雙普選嘅時候，就係北京有 10 M broadband 嘅時候喇！

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看看在北京 Walmart 找到的一本教日文的書，比起香港人用通勝學英文簡直有過之而無不及！

]]> http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/02/14/%e9%80%99%e6%a8%a3%e5%ad%b8%e6%97%a5%e6%96%87%ef%bc%81/feed/ 0 北京去香港最平的機票 http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/01/20/%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e5%8e%bb%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e6%9c%80%e5%b9%b3%e7%9a%84%e6%a9%9f%e7%a5%a8/ http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/01/20/%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e5%8e%bb%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e6%9c%80%e5%b9%b3%e7%9a%84%e6%a9%9f%e7%a5%a8/#comments Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:51:36 +0000 anthony http://blog.anthonywong.net/2007/01/20/%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e5%8e%bb%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e6%9c%80%e5%b9%b3%e7%9a%84%e6%a9%9f%e7%a5%a8/ 一直以為北京去香港的機票一般都是中國南方航空最便宜的（不過近來國泰已經有一些航班已經愈來愈平，通常都是些很早或者很晚的時間），殊不知到去哪儿？一查，竟然發現有更便宜的，不過不知道你敢不敢坐了！

sri_lanka_flight_ticket.png

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crappy english

“Horizontal Qualifying Examination of Computer”? So there must be some “vertical” examinations?


crappy english

“Flushbonding” – a new word is invented!

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]]> http://blog.anthonywong.net/2006/01/04/roomba/feed/ 3 RMS in Beijing http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/09/18/rms-in-beijing/ http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/09/18/rms-in-beijing/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:12:30 +0000 anthony http://blog.anthonywong.net/?p=18
RMS in his preaching pose
RMS in “preaching” costume.

RMS gave a talk to the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group last night. The picture on the right is him in his “preaching” costume. Remember, when you’re talking with him, you have to speak logically and intelligently. This is one example. Ask him “Do you only use Free software?”, he will 100% answer “yes”, and then you can follow up with “Is your BIOS Free?” *grin*


]]> http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/09/18/rms-in-beijing/feed/ 4 Beijing GNU/Linux User Group http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/09/14/beijing-gnulinux-user-group/ http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/09/14/beijing-gnulinux-user-group/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:06:46 +0000 anthony http://blog.anthonywong.net/?p=17 I was having a strange feeling that I was suddenly swapped out from China to an English-speaking world. I seldom have this kind of feeling before since I’ve been living in Beijing for 2.5 years.

Tonight I represented my company, Sun Wah Linux, to talk about Linux in China in Beijing GNU/Linux User Group (BLUG) meeting. Frankly I was having a hard time feeding myself with how Linux is doing in China because my work does not focus on Linux specifically. Anyway, I tried my best to learn about the trends and issues as much as I could before I attended the meeting. Since I went to the meeting place (a restaurant called Steak and Eggs) from China World Hotel after the first day of JavaChina Conference and the two places are very close to each other, I arrived there at 6:30pm while the meeting was scheduled to start at 7pm. The meeting did not start at 7pm exactly because basically we all wanted to fill our stomach first :) The president of BLUG, Mike, who is a foreigner, so are most of the other members/attendants, they all came from different parts of the world. The moment we ate at Steak and Eggs reminded me of the moments when I was staying in hostels with foreigners as a backpacker in Europe. This kind of sudden cultural change is mind-boggling. I’ve met a lot of cool guys in this meeting. I have not imagined that there are so many Linux guru expats who are living and working in Beijing. It’s really a very good experience.

Thanks Mike for the BLUG T-shirt, it’s nice and I will wear it tomorrow during the 2nd day of JavaChina conference. :)

]]> http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/09/14/beijing-gnulinux-user-group/feed/ 2 北京開了 UNIQLO http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/09/11/%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e9%96%8b%e4%ba%86-uniqlo/ http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/09/11/%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e9%96%8b%e4%ba%86-uniqlo/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2005 05:38:22 +0000 anthony http://blog.anthonywong.net/?p=16 某日在王府井看到有行人拿着 UNIQLO 的袋子，猜想是不是 UNIQLO 已經涉足北京了。以前到上海的时候曾經到過那裏的 UNIQLO，東西還是可以的，加上朋友都說 UNIQLO 又便宜質量又好，於是上網找找 UNIQLO 在北京的地點。終於被我找到了，一家在王府井新東安市場的3樓，另一家在西單商場北樓4樓。昨晚吃完飯之后，懷着興奮不已的心情和同事從嘉里中心跑到王府井，打算到 UNIQLO 朝聖之餘，也勢必瘋狂掃貨一番。怎料北京店的東西怎也引不起我“買物”的興趣，可能又是日本人把最好的都留在自己國家的緣故，好東西都不出口的，又可能是剛到換季的時候，賣的衣服主要都是秋天的服裝，都不是我想買的，所以選擇就更少了。最後什麼都沒買就走了。雖然如此，還是有不少可推荐的：襯衫，有幾款顏色蠻特別、內衣，拿上手已經感覺很舒服、襪有很多款式、牛仔褲，百多元價錢實惠。還是到冬天的時候，再來找一些配搭用的就最經濟了。

中國官方網站：http://www.uniqlo.com.cn

注意：北京的 UNIQLO 已經全面撤出，殘念。

]]> http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/09/11/%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e9%96%8b%e4%ba%86-uniqlo/feed/ 5 “Debian” mug http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/06/15/debian-mug/ http://blog.anthonywong.net/2005/06/15/debian-mug/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:57:54 +0000 anthony http://blog.anthonywong.net/?p=5 This is the mug used in the Beijing “Be there or Be square” (不见不散) restaurant. Apparently, Debian has already started its World Domination sub-project secretly for quite some time, and I guess it probably started from the time when our last Debian Project Leader Martin Michlmayr visited Beijing in the last Debian mini-conf.

'Debian' mug

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