Windows 8.1 on Alpaca

Hardware

• Acer Laptop Aspire V3-572-734Y
• Intel Core i7 5500U (2.40GHz)
• 15.6 Full HD 1920x1080
• 8GB Memory
• 1TB HDD
• Intel HD Graphics 5500

To run Windows Experience Index on 8.1, start command prompt in admin mode, execute "WinSAT formal", go to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore, open date-time.formal assessment.xml, and look for <WinSPR> section for the numbers. This is fasted PC to date:

Problems

Sometimes, trying to access shared files on network, alpaca asks for network credentials. Usually a reboot allows unfettered access.

Windows product key: There is none, seems to be embedded on chip and reinstallation should not ask for it.

Remove crapware 2015-07-18

• abDocs, abOfficeAdmin, abFiles, abMedia, abPhoto.
• eBay, Amazon.

• McAfee Livesafe.

• Cyberlink Photodirector 3, Cyberlink Powerdirector 10.
• Pokki, Spotify.
• Booking.com, Privatewifi, Dropbox, Acer Buy Online, Acer Portal (@@@ no uninstaller, in program files).
• Acer Launch manager, Acer Portal, Acer Explorer, AOP Framework.

Ran setup for Acer Care Center.

Install Software 2015-07-19

Decide on 32-bit or 64-bit python/apache/mariadb etc: 32-BIT.

Installed:

• Bullzip PDF writer
• PDF Redirect
• Sumatrapdf viewer
• Xplorer2 lite
• Winzip 9 and command line interface
• Python 2.7.10 32-bit from python.org
  • setup added C:\Python27 and C:\Python27\Scripts to system path and installed setuptools
  • easy_install pip
  • easy_install pillow
  • easy_install virtualenv
• Firefox
• Chrome
• Filezilla
• HeidiSQL 9.2.0
• nodejs 0.12.7 64-bit
• Burnawarefree
• Gimp 2.8.14
• Irfanview 4.38
  • Irfanview plugins 4.38
• PuTTY 0.64-installer.exe
• SciTE
  • copy sciteglobal.properties and css.properties from packrat site/wscite
• Notetab light 7.1
• PSPad 4.46 - compact install, default .txt editor
• 7-Zip 9.20
• Unison 2.40.16 GUI + server
• Pidgin 2.10. (required for Unison)
  • Sourceforge version is corrupt, installed 2.7.1 from antelope download
  • Pidgin installs gtk
  • Spellchecker failed to install, must do manually, see pidgin wiki
• Cygwin 2.1.0 using setup-x86.exe from Cygwin.com. (required for Unison, must be 32-bit)
  • added 2 libssh modules and "openssh server and client" under net
  • must create Cygwin/home/roger/.ssh folder to save known_hosts
• Gadwin print screen
• HTMLdoc

• ExamDiff 1.8

Copied directories not under version control:

• home/web

  • HtmlPdf

  • log (create 4 subdirectories)
  • static
  • staticCom
  • svgserver
  • cron

TortoiseHG

TortoiseHG 3.4.2 64-bit with Mercurial 3.4.2

• Bitbucket/moin-2.0
• Bitbucket/moin-1.9
• home/web/dra
• home/web/drawiki
  • copy wiki and wikidata directories from packrat
  • underlay
    • created new 1.9.8 underlay by unpacking tarball

    • do LanguageSetup and copy underlay; cannot do this from repo

• home/web/imgserver
• home/web/Webware
  • TODO rebuild repository, has bunches of .pyc and generated .html files

MariaDB

• MariaDB 5.5.44 win32.msi
  • default character set is utf8
  • enabled networking
  • did not install optimize for transactions feature
  • log on and load rockart database

    cd "C:\program files (x86)\mariadb 5.5\bin"
    MySQL - u root -p
    create database rockart;
    grant all privileges on rockart.* to rockart@localhost identified by 'xxxx' with grant option;
    quit;

  • copy cron files, esp. loadrockart.bat and draAfterRenames.sql
  • loadrockart.bat

Apache

• Apache via httpd-2.2.25-x86-no_ssl.msi
  • copied .msi from packrat together with mod_wsgi
  • installed for roger, 8080, must start manually with shortcut on desktop
  • 2.4 has many changes: TODO figure out how to convert to 2.4 or later
  • created desktop shortcut to httpd.exe
  • accessed localhost:8080 from IE - It Works
  • update hosts file, must save elsewhere and copy to windows/sys32/drivers/etc/hosts
    • 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.local alpaca alpaca.animals alpaca.digitalrockart.org alpaca.digitalrockart.com
  • copied mod_wsgi.so from packrat
  • works after manual start at localhost:8080
  • copied httpd.conf from packrat, changed all packrat references to alpaca

Webware

Created virtual env's:

cd \home\web
virtualenv --no-site-packages envBASELINE # --no-site... needed for old virtualenv's
virtualenv env

env\scripts\activate.bat

pip reportlab 
pip install pillow 
pip install sqlalchemy 
pip install werkzeug
pip install pymysql  # replaces MySQL-python

• @@@ had an error - cannot find vcvarsall.bat
  • tried various things, used pip instead of easy_install, control panel showed 2 visual c++ 2008 copies, deleted both and reinstalled from web

Fix reportlab bar charts in reportlab/graphics/charts/barchart.py ~ line 215

            #~ g.add(self.makeBars())
            g.add(cA)
            g.add(vA)
            g.add(self.makeBars()) # rdh put bars in front of grid

cd \home\web\webware
python install.py
cd ..
cd dra
appserver # should start

Created dontload files in

• CGIWrapper
• COMKit

• KidKit

• PSP

• TaskKit

• UserKit

Destop Icons

Create start icons for apache and webware appserver.

2017-02-22

Upgraded to Windows 10 on a prior unknown date.

Fixed Icons for Unison client and server. Synced drawiki, webpix. Restored current sql db, updated drawiki software.