[Live-demo] Re: ISO go/no go

[Jody Garnett]

Trying on a more normal computer (thinkpad is the definition of
normal) and having a lot more success.

Font problem is gone form the login screen; and from QGIS.

Discovered if that I turn networking off (right click on the network
icon and uncheck "Enable Networking") then all the web based
applications work fine (and do not suffer from firefox going offline).

Starting with the one app that looked to not work even with the
firefox offline problem...

Deegree:
- Running start deegree resulting in "Firefox is already running, but
is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close your
existing Firefox process, or restart your system."

Going to shut down this gmail window and try again.

Jody

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Evening; I going through with an actual burned copy of the ISO; trying
> to do a final check before things were sent to the printers.
>
> Good news:
> - the cover looks good
> - the background looks great!
>
> Can someone provide an instruction list for the outside cover - at the
> user name prompt we were unsure what to type.
> 1.      Insert DVD
> 2.      Reboot system
> 3.      When prompted , hit Enter to start DVD
> 4.     Wait
> 5      Login - wait for the "user user" countdown from 30...0 in order to login
>
> Found instructions in the "Help" icon - did not match my experience ...
>
> LOGIN
> HUGE font for user login (60 point or so; you can only see the outline
> of the bottom of the letter in the provided field
>
> General:
> - Does not support Right click on Mac
> - "Start Mapni..." icon looks like it will shut off the machine
>
> QuantumGIS
> - Quantum GIS boot screen and menu bars use the same 60 point font -
> rendering app unusable (literally the application displays the word
> "File" for 1/2 the screen)
>
> Geoserver
> - Geoserver Start button works (need shows up as "tart GeoSe.." on the
> desktop) and opens up the welcome page at http://local host:8082"
> - Any of the other links from this page (WMS capabilities, demo page,
> etc... result in “Offline mode” – Fire Fox is currently offline and
> can’t browse the  web"\
>
> Okay I have the answer to the puzzle! If I clear the cache in firefox
> even the geoserver welcome page does not work; so it looks like fire
> fox is not going to let me browse localhost without being able to be
> online? Trying to connect to wireless to see if it makes things
> better.
>
> Going back to try things when connected to wireless:
> - geoserver now works
> - mapserver now works
> - deegree did not work
>
> GeoKettle
> - started
>
> Start mapni..
> - started up; was able to follow the instructions
> - first time firefox opens it goes into offline mode and prevents the
> opening of the page
> - unchecking offline mode; and asking it to try again let me see the
> service and view the first tile
>
> Kosmo
> - nice splash screen again
> - it took me forever to navigate to /usr/local/share or whatever it
> was because I needed to double click on a trackpad - hitting enter
> would not work as with other file system dialogs
> - I could add countries.shp udig_data did not render not sure why
> (zooming to extent etc had no effect)
> - I could not add clouds.jpg from udig_data got an "Error Loading
> Data" dialog with message "a
> /usr/local/share/udig-data/udig-v1_2/clouds.jpg - null"
>
> Deegree
> - fire fox offline trick did not work; resulting in a "firefox cannot
> establish a connection to the server at localhost:8081" (after going
> through the usual fire fox offline issue)
>
> It saved me tones of time finding the application in the Application
> menu rather then the desktop (no visial feedback when launching from
> the desktop combined with double clicking on a trackpad resulted in
> many failed attempts to launch)
>
> Postgres / PgAdmin
> - works
> - was able to render sydney roads from udig
>
> That is it I have 2 mins of laptop batery left ... if we can talk over
> what to do on the email list here (maybe put the notes above into
> trac?).
>
> Asking admin here....
>
> Apparently it would be "awesome" if another ISO could be produced, as
> they don't want to produce 1000 copies of something that is unsable.
>
> jody
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> OpenJump works fine
> - (had a hard time rembering where the demo data is in
> /usr/local/share/local/udig-data or something .. can we add this
> information to the Passwords readme?)
>
> gvSig
> - nice splash screen
> - looked in /usr/local/share/gvsig for sample data and did not find anything
> - displays udig-data countries and cloud.jpg just fine
>
> MapServer
> - first demo MapServer Itasca Application (ms v5.4)
> -- first map works
> - second map "Adds second scalebar" does not work
>
> Grass
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