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</head>
<body>
<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
<style>figure {font-weight: bold; font-size: small; font-family: sans-serif;font-variant-caps: small-caps;}</style>
<h1>Expo computing setup</h1>
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<p>Our own Wifi only works very close to the tatty hut. If you are camped over the road near the
Gasthof you will need to use the Gasthof WiFi 'staudnwirt'. This takes you to a login page on a web browser and it will log you out if you stop using it or whenever it
thinks you have been on too long. Get instructions from the Gasthof campsite reception.
<div class="onright">
<figure>
<a href="/piclinks/typing.htm"><img src="/images/typing.jpg"></a>
<br><figcaption>Basecamp computer in 1991 - in the old potato hut</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
<h3>Expo laptop</h3>
<p>The <em>Expo laptop</em> 'debian' in the tatty hut is a Dell Latitude E4200 laptop (on loan from Philip
@ -35,6 +41,7 @@ Sargent) which is connected to the router by a cable and also by WiFi
also has an external numberpad as a couple of vital keys are dead
(e.g. down-arrow). It runs Linux (debian) and has installed all the software
for talking to the server for:
<ul>
<li>Typing in survey data
<li>Uploading survey data
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<p>At the end of expo we don't need to bring the <em>Expo laptop</em> back back to the UK
(though we will, as we will want to do operating system updates during the year and maybe fix that keyboard) as all the caving data updates are continuously
synchronised with the public server expo.survex.com during the expo.</p>
<h3>Printing and Scanning</h3>
We have A4 printer and scanner attached via usb cables and a usb hub to the <em>Expo laptop</em>.
In 2018 we also connected the printer to the router with an ethernet cable and this made things more reliable.
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<pre>/root/fakenet/runfakenet
</pre>
This typically needs to be run once or twice a day when the internet stops working.
Sometimes you have to walk over to the blue laptop and run this script directly by typing on its keyboard
Sometimes you have to walk over to the blue Acer Aspire netbook and run this script directly by typing on its keyboard
as the network has collapsed so badly that <span style="font-family:monospace">ssh</span> doesn't work.
<p>The Acer netbook needs to have its persistent networking set up correctly <i>in addition to the script</i>. This is the