The Expo laptop in the tatty hut is a 2011 Dell Latitude E4200 laptop (on loan from Philip
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The Expo Laptops: Crowley's Friend: Aziraphale
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The expo laptop is called "Crowley". Crowley was rather too ill to be useful during the 2022 expo (being left in the potato hut for 3 years was not a healthy experience) but is now feeling much better... apart from the WiFi which died in typical fashion just 10 minutes before a training session.
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In 2023 we will have another general-use laptop (it was also on expo in 2019). This is not connected by any cabling and just uses WiFi. Like the expo laptop it is running Debian and has the same set of software installed
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Both laptops have had RAM upgrades and solid-state disc upgrades over winter 2022/23.
Networking Hardware - experts only
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Cat Henry lead the group through "Ah, someone has hurt themselves in this cave-specific way" scenarios outside in the spring sunshine before we ran through the principles of rescue procedures. The first aid advice given by both Cat and Martin at the weekend was great, realising that caves are imperfect environments for eye removal and untensioning lungs.
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Many a caving game appeared and with a hut full of experienced cavers, the competition was fierce. The true contestants proceeded to increase their alcohol consumption for maximum pain reduction.
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Peachey instructed the refreshers on croll to croll mid rope rescues, hauling procedures and passing rebelays and deviations with casualties in the YSS SRT wall.
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