<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Anish Mangal</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anishmg@umich.edu">anishmg@umich.edu</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:16 AM<br>Subject: Re: [XSCE] CentOS install - i3 NUC - Code to Inspire<br>To: xsce-devel <<a href="mailto:xsce-devel@googlegroups.com">xsce-devel@googlegroups.com</a>>, server-devel <<a href="mailto:server-devel@lists.laptop.org">server-devel@lists.laptop.org</a>>, Nick Doiron <<a href="mailto:ndoiron@mapmeld.com">ndoiron@mapmeld.com</a>><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Nick, et. al. <br><br></div>Would love some feedback on the tiles. <br><a href="http://home.braddock.com:28112/osm/slippymap.html" target="_blank">http://home.braddock.com:28112/osm/slippymap.html</a><br><br>The scheme I've broadly followed is this:<br><br></div>Zoom <= 6<br></div>Natural earth data overlaid with text labels<br><br></div>Zoom between 7 and 10<br></div>OSMBright as a base layer + hillshade + slopeshade + color-relief. DEM data is SRTM 15 arc-sec resolution.<br><br></div>Zoom >= 11<br></div>OSMBright + hillshade + contours. DEM data is 1 arc-sec resolution<br><br></div>Would LOVE feedback, critiques on the design styling and suggestions to improve it. For example:<br></div>1. Contours at zoom level 11 is maybe a bit overdone, can be included from zoom 12 or 13 onwards. <br></div>2. Between zoom 7 and 10, the tiles look faded. This is primarily due to the hillshade, which is gray in color. Now if this is really a problem, I could make this situation slightly better.<br></div>3. Zoom level 10 (the last level with the crazy colors) has too much faded out elevation, and in the next level the elevation features are much sharper. Is this a problem?<br></div><div>4. The colors of the contours is blue. Maybe there is a better color out there? I suck at design and colors generally!<br><br></div>In terms of size, the tiles with elevation data are roughly double the size without elevation data.<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><div><div><div><div><div>Thanks everyone for being a great help during this process. :-)<br>--<br></div><div>Anish<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Nick Doiron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ndoiron@mapmeld.com" target="_blank">ndoiron@mapmeld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Back at the office today. My NUC box has CentOS installed and a version of XSCE, depending on what was in the image... if it's a little out of date should I pull down the latest XSCE commits and reinstall, or what?<div><br></div><div>OSM tiles looking good. Anish, I like that you included terrain! awesome</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><div><div><br></div><div>-- Nick</div></div></div></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Nick,<br><br></div>1) How's your NUC working out? Understanding you've been swamped at the Unicode Conf :)<br><br></div>2) Separately can you look over the new OpenStreetMap tiles Anish has generated at <a href="http://home.braddock.com:28112/osm/slippymap.html" target="_blank">http://home.braddock.com:28112/osm/slippymap.html</a> and provide us some feedback on these tiles look+feel at different zoom levels?<br><br></div>PS Tiles are still generating, as Anish moves beyond Level 11 towards 12/onwards, so once there are enough Anish will publish a .tar<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Nick Doiron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ndoiron@mapmeld.com" target="_blank">ndoiron@mapmeld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">ok never mind... this time it gave me an option to select CentOS and it is happening!!!!<div>asks for schoolserver login and everything</div><div><br><div>not sure what I did differently on the 2nd round</div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Nick Doiron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ndoiron@mapmeld.com" target="_blank">ndoiron@mapmeld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Good news: appears in boot menu as a bootable disk. I re-ran the USB install to look for warnings:<div>===<br><div>root login on 'tty1'</div><div>no /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon found: none killed<br><div>can't remove '/var/run/dbus/pid': No such file or directory</div></div><div>====</div><div>I run erase</div><div>====</div><div>EXT4-fs (sda2): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities</div></div><div><div>EXT4-fs (sda2): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities</div></div><div><div>EXT4-fs (sda3): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities</div></div><div><div>EXT4-fs (sda3): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities</div></div><div>=== (tar -xf /mnt/sdb2/target/21/x86_64/x86_64fc21_centos_150507.tgz) takes several minutes</div><div><br></div><div>In grub install step, I missed the first part but eventually get:</div><div>Usage: basename FILE [SUFFIX]</div><div>Strip directory path and .SUFFIX from FILE</div><div><br></div><div>tee: /mnt/sdb2/install.2096.log: I/O error</div><div>root@xsce:~#</div><div><br></div><div>Both install logs are empty</div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Nick Doiron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ndoiron@mapmeld.com" target="_blank">ndoiron@mapmeld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">The CentOS installer ran for a time from the USB, then I was in a shell. I turned the device off, unplugged the USB, and get this on boot from hard drive.<div><br></div><div>GRUB loading</div><div>Welcome to GRUB!</div><div>error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found</div><div>Entering rescue mode...</div><div>grub rescue></div><div><br></div><div>In the prompt I ran ls:</div><div>grub rescue > ls</div><div>(hd0) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1)</div><div><br></div><div>I'll be taking the box to the Unicode Conference without a monitor, so I won't be able to make much progress in the next couple days. But I'm happy to read a bunch of resources if you have them.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Nick Doiron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ndoiron@mapmeld.com" target="_blank">ndoiron@mapmeld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">ok I followed Tim's instructions and it's booting from it now... I can see it on the monitor, and hear the NUC writing to the hard disk</div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:03 PM, James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><span>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:53:40PM -0700, Nick Doiron wrote:<br>
> ok - I ran sudo dd if=./centos_150507.img of=/dev/disk4s1 and the NUC still<br>
> doesn't recognize it as a boot device =\<br>
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</span>no, it won't. if you're using a mac with mac os x to write the image,<br>
there are some more special commands to consider.<br>
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and it is probably /dev/rdisk4, and you don't want to get the wrong one.<br>
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<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx</a><br>
gives a few examples.<br>
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