<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Basic expo laptop</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Basic laptop</h2> <h1>Setting up a basic Expo laptop</h1> <h2 id="any">What you can do from any laptop</h2> <p>There is a lot you can do without installing any software on your own machine. Anything with a web browser is an 'Expo Basic laptop'. Using the browser, you can logon to the Expo online system ("the website", also known as "troggle") as user 'expo' at <a href="/accounts/login/">the Troggle User Login page</a>. (Ask another expoer for the 'cavey:beery' password.) You can: <ul> <li>Edit any HTML page in the online handbook: correct errors, update phone numbers <li>Edit existing Survex files in our complete Loser cave data repository <li>Create new Survex files - a template is provided - for new cave passages <li>Edit the cave description and entrance description text for existing caves <li>Create entirely new caves in the system by filling out online forms<br> <li>Upload many photograph images at once <li>Upload a single photo and rename it as you do so </ul> <p>Documentation on how to actually do these things are in the <a href="manual.html">data maintenance manual</a>. <br>Or use the "Search" box below the menu on the left-hand side of the page. <br>Or go to any of the troggle report pages and explore the menu of items across the top of the page: <code style="font-size: 10"> <a href="/survexfile/264">264</a> | <a href="/survexfile/290">290</a> | <a href="/survexfile/359">359</a> | <a href="/survexfile/">Survex</a> | <a href="/survexfile/caves/">All Survex</a> | <a href="/survey_scans/">Scans</a> | <a href="/walletedit/2022:01">Upload Scans</a> | <a href="/dwgfiles/">Drawings</a> | <a href="/dwgupload/">Upload Drawings</a> | <a href="/photoupload/">Upload Photos</a> | <a href="/1623/290/290">290 (FGH)</a> | <a href="/1623/264/264.html">264 (Balkonhöhle)</a> | <a href="/dataissues">Data Issues</a> | <a href="/handbook/computing/todo-data.html">tasks to do </a> | <a id="cavesLink" href="/indxal.htm">caves</a> | <a id="qmsLink" href="/cave/qms/1623-290">QMs</a> | <a id="entsLink" href="/eastings">ents</a> | <a id="folklink" href="/folk">expoers</a> | <a id="caversLink" href="/people">survey lengths</a> | <a href="/stats">statistics</a> | <a href="/wallets/year/2022">Wallets(2022)</a> | <a href="/expedition/2022">Expo(2022)</a> | </code> <p>And using email to send the results to an expo nerd, you can: <ul> <li>Type up your logbook entry for any trip you do (surface or underground), but please use <a href="../logbooks.html">our standard format</a> <li>Upload GPS tracks from your phone <li>Send photos of cave entrances and cavers doing mad things <li>Sketch rigging plans on paper, photograph them, and email them <li>Regularly take photos of pages of '<a href="../bierbook.html">the bier book</a>' and 'the sesh book' and email them, to protect against accidental 'Gössering' <li>Regularly take photos of pages of '<a href="../logbooks.html">the handwritten expo logbook</a>', also to protect against accidental 'Gössering' but also against permanent loss. We are missing several vital logbooks from past expos through carelessness. </ul> <p>and of course using your phone or laptop you can update entries on expo antics on public forums such as ukcaving. <p>If you also have Survex and Therion installed on the laptop (which makes it an "Expo Survey Laptop"), you can do nearly everything for initial cave survey data entry. See the <a href="surveylaptop.html">expo survey laptop</a> installation instructions. <p>We are actively working on increasing the number of expo activities that can be done with just a browser and no, or minimal, installed software. <h3>Which laptop do you need?</h3> <p>If you have not actively used troggle since 2018, you are probably not aware of <a href="#any">all the things</a> you can now do with just a browser. Many of these capabilities are not new, but they weren't documented and had been forgotten over the past 10+ years. Now <a href="manual.html">these capabilities are documented</a>, though writing better documentation is an unending job, and we have a <a href="manual.html">data maintenance manual</a>. <ul> <li>A <a href="#any">Basic Laptop</a> any laptop with a broswer and email. <li>A <a href="surveylaptop.html">Survey laptop</a>: a basic laptop with Survex and Tunnel/Therion installed - for cave surveying data entry. <li>An <a href="bulkupdatelaptop.html">expo Bulk Data laptop</a> <li>A <a href="winlaptop.html">Windows expo Bulk Data laptop</a> <li>An <a href="../troggle/troglaptop.html">expo software development computer</a> for troggle programming </ul> <h2>Your own Survey laptop</h2> <p>If you are new to expo and can't do what you want with just a browser and email, then please use the <em>expo laptop</em> in the potato hut first. You don't <em>need</em> to use your own laptop - which can take a while to configure with survex, tunnel and therion. <p>You may also need to install image editing software such as Irfanview or gimp. <h3>The expo laptop</h3> <p>The <em>expo laptop</em> is a bulk update laptop configuration. It has everything for editing and testing survey files (survex, aven, cavern), drawings (tunnel, therion), scanned images of sketches and centre-lines, and photographs. The <em>expo laptop</em> in the potato hut is also physically connected to a flatbed scanner but you can use your phone camera instead and email the images to yourself on your laptop. <p>The <em>expo laptop</em> may also have some software for managing vector images (such as rigging guides), <a href="https://paperless.bheeb.ch/">PocketTopo</a> files, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system">GIS digital maps</a> and <a href="https://activityworkshop.net/software/gpsprune/development.html">GPS tracks</a>. See the <a href="surveylaptop.html">full survey laptop configuration</a> for details. <h4>Bulk Updates</h4> <p>Managing large sets of photographs and scanned images, and managing several folders of these on your laptop and on <var>expofiles</var> on the server is finicky and time-consuming. Many programmers use rsync to help them with this, but if you have never used rsync, now is <em>not</em> the time to learn. Use filezilla on the expo laptop. It is at this point that if you are using a Windows machine, you <em>really</em> need to <a href="winlaptop.html#problems">read about how expo uses hard and soft links and filenames on Windows</a>. If things get screwed up badly, it will need someone on a Linux machine to sort it out. <h3>FTP</h3> <p>It is necessary to use Filezilla scp or sftp to manage large collections of files in 'expofiles'. Before you attempt this, <b>talk to a more experienced expoer</b>. <p> See <a href="upload-expert.html">Experts: Uploading files</a>, <a href="uploading.html">Uploading files</a> and <a href="gpxupload.html">Uploading GPS tracks</a>. Only Bulk Data machines which have done the key-pair setup process can do scp, sftp or rsync or run Filezilla. </p> <hr /></body> </html>