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    osgeo-live people,<br>
    <br>
    Erik, CCed, has provided valuable feedback describing his experience
    using OSGeo-Live. Thanks Erik.<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    On 9/11/2011 12:12 PM, Erik Lash wrote:
    <blockquote cite="mid:000001cc9e7c$b5cce860$2166b920$@ncsu.edu"
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi
            Cameron,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please
            feel free to post my comments to the list. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Erik
            Lash<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
                  Cameron Shorter [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>] <br>
                  <b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 07, 2011 2:46 AM<br>
                  <b>To:</b> Helena Mitasova<br>
                  <b>Cc:</b> Hamish; Erik Lash<br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> Re: Fwd: OSGEO Live 5 USB Distribution
                  testing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the feedback Helena and Erik,<br>
            Do you mind if we forward this email onto our osgeo-live
            email list so that we can share this feedback with others,
            which hopefully can lead to an improved osgeo-live?<br>
            <br>
            On 7/11/2011 3:50 PM, Helena Mitasova wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal">Cameron, <o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">I am not sure whether this would be
              useful for the next version of OSGEO-Live, but I gave the
              USB <o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">that I got in Denver to one of my
              students (MS Windows user) to try it out on his own as is.<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">(he knows GDAL and GRASS but not much
              linux). <o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">Below is summary of his experience (he
              might not have used it the way it was indented to be
              used),<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">but note #6 which worked very well.<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> <snip></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">Feel free to contact Eric Lash directly
              if you have any questions,<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">Helena <o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><br>
                <br>
                <o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">From:
                    </span></b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">"Erik
                    Lash" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:elash@ncsu.edu">elash@ncsu.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Date:
                    </span></b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">October
                    10, 2011 9:12:32 AM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">To:
                    </span></b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">"Helena
                    Mitasova" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:hmitaso@unity.ncsu.edu">hmitaso@unity.ncsu.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
              </div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Cc:
                    </span></b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><<a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:elash@ncsu.edu">elash@ncsu.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
              </div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Subject:
                      OSGEO Live 5 USB Distribution testing</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
              </div>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi
                      Dr. Mitasova,</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I’ve
                      spent some time playing around with the OSGEO Live
                      system this weekend. (learning a lot about Linux)</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I’ve
                      installed it on my 64 bit Windows server as a
                      virtual drive and on my Windows laptop as a dual
                      boot operating system and attempted to use the use
                      the USB distribution. I’ll be doing my homework
                      for this week on it.</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
                      USB installation has proved too cumbersome for
                      easy use alongside my current implementations of
                      Windows and Windows Server and needs to be tweaked
                      a bit before it’s something that will be readily
                      accessible to the normal student.</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Six
                      significant issues of feedback that I’ve noted so
                      far are:</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">1)</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Documentation
                      is not well formatted or easy to find if one is
                      not already familiar with Linux. I spent much time
                      searching online forums this weekend to find
                      answers to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>basic
                        use questions</u><span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span>like -><span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“how
                        does one tweak display settings in XFce?” and
                        “how does one connect to a network drive”</i>. A
                      good set of instructions and a useful FAQ that
                      addresses basic computer integration tasks needs
                      to be included on the desktop with the USB
                      distribution (and the other ones as well).</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2)</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Network
                      drives are not easily supported and the auto-mount
                      features don’t seem to work without significant
                      tweaking over the network. I keep my data and
                      documents on a separate network drive (for
                      security and backup purposes) at home just like at
                      the University. Setting up the OSGEO Live
                      distribution to work with my network seems an
                      almost insurmountable task (to this Linux
                      novice/newbie) and I’ve had to move my documents
                      to a portable USB stick to do my homework.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.0in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">a.</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">      <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">What
                      would be great would be to have a feature that
                      allows for the installation to remember and
                      automatically mount network directories after
                      reboot. Instead all I can figure out is how to set
                      them up manually each time I start the system…not
                      efficient and somewhat time consuming.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.0in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">3)</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Monitors
                        – Monitors – Monitors<span
                          class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></u><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">:
                      Still don’t have this one figured out…I use
                      multiple monitors with all my computers. I’ve
                      tried to install and use some of the add on
                      packages and have followed the directions from
                      OSGEO for this but I still<span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>cannot</u><span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span>get the
                      OSGEO Live distribution to extend my desktop onto
                      a second monitor (or resize correctly on one
                      screen). The default seems to be for it to mirror
                      to a second monitor which is almost useless for
                      someone like me who uses the space on the second
                      monitor for other programs.</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.0in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">a.</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">      <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This
                      is probably the most annoying issue of all…I can’t
                      function without multiple monitors. It’s how I
                      prefer to work.</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">4)</span></b><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Among
                      its other problems the USB drive installation is
                      too big for the USB drive. Can’t update it, add
                      data, or add features because its native
                      distribution fills up the USB drive almost
                      completely. It’s just too cumbersome and bulky for
                      ease of use. Not very much use for a class like
                      MEA 792 where we create and use a lot of data and
                      often need to add features to software<span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span
                        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">à</span></b><span
                      class="apple-converted-space"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></b></span><b><u><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I’ve
                          given up trying to use the USB installation
                          and have found that the both the dual boot and
                          virtual installs work much better.</span></u></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">5)</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><u><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Installing
                          OSGEO Live to dual boot with Windows is really
                          really  really buggy and not easily
                          accomplished without significant effort.</span></u></b><span
                      class="apple-converted-space"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Documentation
                      is not adequate and it took me several attempts
                      and system restores to get it right. Now that I
                      have it working, though, it’s great.</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.0in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">a.</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">      <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Primary
                      problem in setup was that the user login is
                      incorrect -> calls for lowercase letters only
                      but the OSGEO Live default uses uppercase letters.
                      It gets stuck in a loop and a hard boot is
                      required to interrupt the setup process.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-1.5in"><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">                                                              <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">i.</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Had
                      to install it once, hard boot out of the error,
                      then was presented with a user login screen during
                      the next attempt that allowed me to create a new
                      user for the install with lowercase lettering.
                      That allowed me to finish the installation.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.0in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">b.</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Secondary
                      problems included conflicts with Windows disk
                      management when trying to manually configure
                      partitions (both existing partitions and new
                      ones).</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-1.5in"><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">                                                              <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">i.</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Solution
                      was to make the entire hard drive a single Windows
                      partition in windows then install using the
                      “alongside windows” feature that automatically
                      repartitions windows space.</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-1.5in"><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">                                                            <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ii.</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This
                      would have been a real BIG issue if I had data on
                      another hard drive for example a standard
                      configuration: [ c:\Install, d:\Data ]. Instead I
                      have a local network that I use so I was afforded
                      the luxury of only having a single partition on my
                      laptop. However, I usually do multi-partition my
                      drives for organization, backup, and security
                      reasons.</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.0in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">c.</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">      <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A
                      tertiary problem was that the OSGEO installation
                      sets Unbuntu as the default OS and I didn’t want
                      that. I still plan to use Windows first and select
                      the OSGEO drive primarily for doing my homework.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:1.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-1.5in"><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">                                                              <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">i.</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I
                      used a recovery to restore the MBR to Windows
                      default and EasyBCD to configure a second boot
                      option to manually select the GRUB menu…now it
                      automatically boots Windows unless I select the
                      OSGEO install.</span><span
                      style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:99.0pt">
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">6)</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">     <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><u><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Installing
                          OSGEO Live to VirtualBox was super easy with
                          both the vmdk and ISO</span></u></b><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">.</span></b><span
                      class="apple-converted-space"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It
                      works super good as a virtual machine. ISO
                      installation of a new OS  seems to work better
                      than the vmdk as it allows for custom installation
                      from scratch. The only major issue was getting the
                      network drives mounted (these include drives on
                      the local machine because a virtual drive acts as
                      a separate machine) and shares had to be set up.
                      But now I can remote to it from my laptop and even
                      from out of my house through my home VPN…can even
                      connect to it from campus if I want…just like an
                      NCSU VCL installation but hosted at my own house.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
                <div style="margin-left:.5in">
                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">-</span><span
                      style="font-size:7.0pt">         <span
                        class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Erik</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                </div>
              </div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
              </div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal">------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
              </div>
              <blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                <div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I
                        just thought you might be interested in this.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I
                        run OSGEO as a headless installation for
                        remoting in from my laptop attached to a second
                        monitor (OSGEO L 5 gets a monitor by itself and
                        Windows stays on the other monitor for access to
                        all my Windows softare)…was a bit tricky to
                        figure out how to do it but it turned out to be
                        quite simple in the end. There are other ways to
                        do this but the vbs method fit my needs
                        perfectly.</span><span
                        style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I
                        use a vbs script on the server…</span><span
                        style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">'=====================================</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Set
                        WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">obj
                        =
                        WshShell.Run("C:\Progra~1\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxHeadless.exe
                        -s OSGEO_L5_Standard", 0)</span><span
                        style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">set
                        WshShell = Nothing</span><span
                        style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">'=====================================</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Voila…use
                        Windows standard remote desktop interface to
                        connect to the process from any Windows machine
                        (or another remote desktop interface from some
                        other OS).</span><span
                        style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">-Erik</span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </blockquote>
            </div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          </div>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><br>
            <br>
            <br>
            <o:p></o:p></p>
          <pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre>Cameron Shorter<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre>Geospatial Solutions Manager<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre>Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre>Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
          <pre>Think Globally, Fix Locally<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre>Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a>
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