rejon is Jon Phillips.

I decided not to present this Making Computing Real about Laoban and fabricatorz in favor of a more tech-centric presentation after I arrived here today. Instead, I’m going to talk about Free Network Services, which is more important to spread the word about in the face of GFW‘d twitter and chin, I mean facebook.

Here are the slides:

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The upcoming dorkbot on Friday in Beijing will also feature the Laoban Soundsystem 1.5. The big Laoban speakers with Chinese broken-ice grills will go outdoors. CORE will also provide a projector. If you make electronic music and/or have some video works to show off, please bring them out!

IN BASS WE TRUST with EZ ROLLERS from inbasswetrust on Vimeo.

Second IN BASS WE TRUST party.
Drum and Bass and Breakbeat parties promoted by SOS-DNB.

Lineup: EZ ROLLERS, DJ BU, MENG QI, D-RAIL, THOME TOMATO and DELACREW

Location: Pekin, China

Venue: Yugongyishan

Date: April 3rd, 2009

Hope and I visited the CORE labs out behind CaoChangDi on the Robin-mobile and were blown away to find CORE, a Spanish collective working hard in a first-class studio making videos, electronics and electronic music! We just had to join forces with this world class crew putting on events as inbasswetrust.cn. With Laoban Soundsystem and the CORE crew, Beijing has some big event raw materials in the mixing bowl. Let’s cook something up!

[ Beijing Evenings Outdoors ]

Come out to dorkbotbj on Friday night, June 24, from 7:30 until whenever! The music and video projection will really kick-in at 9:30. If you need a ride out to the space, there will be a mini-bus at the entrance of 798 starting at 5:30 pm.

I previously wrote up my methods for tunneling through a filtered network to access other parts of the free Internet so that I can see facebook, youtube, twitter and other sites while surfing in China, Thailand (today) and other countries with filtered connections (ahem, Iran).

Now, pal Shasha wrote-up of another way through your filtered (censored) internet connections by using HotSpot Shield:

我刚刚可以去faceook, twitter和youtube这些网站，用了这个hotspot shield的免费软件，可以通过这个连接下载http://hotspot-shield.com/downloads. Mac和PC都可以安装！如果你在中国，又想访问这些网站，可以去试试，不过页面上的广告比较郁闷，但是我还是觉得比较值。

如果你网络好手，又比较喜欢自己动手做一些比较高级的手段去翻墙，我推荐我朋友Jon Phillips的一篇博文，在里面他详细叙述了如果一步一步地设置方法。点击这里可以去他的网站上阅读详细操作方法。

现在还有人害怕Great Firewall吗？！

如有任何反馈意见，请留言。谢谢大家！

Oh, that’s right, follow the link to her site to read the English text about HotSpot.

Another method a friend recommended yesterday is to use a monthly VPN (Virtual Private Network) service which you can get either for free or as low as $5/month. This is often faster to setup in many operating systems like Mac OS X and Linux with Network Manager. I would of course recommend scrapping your junk operating system and running the absolutely FREE Ubuntu Linux-based distribution and using Network Manager as I’m doing now.