The Expo laptop 'debian' in the tatty hut is a Dell Latitude E4200 laptop (loaned by Philip +
The Expo laptop 'debian' in the tatty hut is a Dell Latitude E4200 laptop (on loan from Philip Sargent) which is connected to the router by a cable and also by WiFi (it's wifi configuration was fixed by Sam in 2019). It also has an external numberpad as a couple of vital keys are dead @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ for talking to the server for: with some configuration, can be set up to do all those things too. New expoers are advised to use the Expo laptop first to see how it all works.
- +The laptop is usually connected to an extra LCD screen so that you can see surveys more easily as the laptop itself is small.
Either the Expo laptop or your own laptop will use the version control system to synchronise cave data. It's easier to use the Expo laptop as the software is already set up. @@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ Configuring the scanner to be used via WiFi is yet to be done, but the printer i directly but we haven't got this configured properly yet.) Use a usb stick to transfer files for printing if you can't get your own laptop or phone to work with the printer. +
In 2019 we have another general-use laptop. This is not connected by any cabling and just uses WiFi. Like the expo laptop it is running debian Linux and has the same set of software installed (survex/aven, tunnelx, therion, tortoisehg, git etc.) and you login to it using the username "expo" and the usual cavey:beery password. It is a 14-inch Thinkpad on loan from Michael Sargent and it is called "aziraphale". The expo laptop is just called "debian". +
The networking hardware is an Acer Aspire netbook which keeps us logged in to the Gasthof and does firewalling