meh, I basically gave up. Talking to the management of the school is like talking to a brick wall. Maybe I don't understand Chinese "face" well enough, but being a private school that is for teaching foreigners Chinese I feel their willingness to compromise is awful.
At no time did the management of the main campus make any effort to communicate in English while I was there in person when we were discussing this problem. And this is a school who teaches beginner Chinese classes so they obviously have teachers who can speak English well enough to deal with this problem.
In the end all I have to say is stay away from this school. There are plenty of other choices now.
I was able to re-enable the managed device with the first one, but I still have problems connecting with DSL the normal way. In the end I used pppoeconf to connnect automatically at startup, and have to run sudo pon dsl-provider if I get disconnected.
I never had this problem with previous versions of Ubuntu. For some the problem is apparently fixed after updating, and for others like myself it's obviously not fixed... kind of a pain to always use pon dsl-provider when I lose my connection... though I guess once could create an icon on the desktop to do that.
Yes, that's how mine is currently set-up. Mine is manually configured to automatically connect through pppoeconf. Sometimes the connection drops out for whatever reason and I have to run the following command to reconnect:
sudo pon dsl-provider
The problem is supposed to be fixed, and after updating you should be able to use the "managed device" in Ubuntu. I've never looked into how to re-enable the "managed device" part though, maybe this weekend I will look into it.
Apparently a journalist interviewed the locals and they were quite confused on why they built an airport there. This area is known to have dense fog every year, and yet they didn't prepare for it... meh.
The only thing more perplexing is the new law to give tickets for running a yellow light (but I guess that completely backfired already)
uhm, I thought the water in Dianchi was rated unsafe even for industrial use. Why would they let people fish there? Celebrate National Day, and get cancer free... glad I never eat fish in Kunming.
Seems to be pretty hit or miss. First time I went there the pizza and hamburgers were great. 2nd time the pizza was terrible, and the hamburger was ok. 3rd time the pizza was ok, but people were smoking inside by the time we left. Guess the no smoking policy is not enforced.
Farmers protest land grab south of Kunming
Posted byMaybe it's 120k per villager? Even that seems pretty low....
Fog shuts down Kunming airport, strands thousands
Posted byApparently a journalist interviewed the locals and they were quite confused on why they built an airport there. This area is known to have dense fog every year, and yet they didn't prepare for it... meh.
The only thing more perplexing is the new law to give tickets for running a yellow light (but I guess that completely backfired already)
Dianchi activists look to spotlight declining fish stocks
Posted byuhm, I thought the water in Dianchi was rated unsafe even for industrial use. Why would they let people fish there? Celebrate National Day, and get cancer free... glad I never eat fish in Kunming.
Illegal 'gutter oil' operation casts shadow on Kunming food safety
Posted byNot just cooking oil....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19462349
Lijiang China's number one tourist hotspot
Posted byIt's not. It's just blog spam masquerading as news....
So have they rebuilt the library at the local college they declared unsafe to occupy after the earthquake yet?