{"id":2459,"date":"2014-12-19T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2014-12-19T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:25:57","slug":"its-easy-when-you-know-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2014\/12\/19\/its-easy-when-you-know-how\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s easy\u2026 when you know how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like I&#8217;ve spent the best part of four days learning Linux. Lets be specific (because I&#8217;ve discovered, you <em>have<\/em> to be specific), I&#8217;ve been learning the RedHat distro of Linux which does somethings differently to, for example, Ubunto. Oh, and I&#8217;ve been learning the Windows Command prompt syntax as well, all to get a Minecraft Portus up on to the University&#8217;s Minecraft server. As an arty-farty type who, after some BASIC in my schooldays, has been pretty exclusively a Mac user, my command line experience has seen me many times looking up into the afterlife whispering prayers of thanks to Saint Steve of Jobs. It was he who, in nicking the idea for a GUI (and drag-and-drop &#8211; oh all hail drag-and-drop!) from Xerox, saved <em>most<\/em> of us from the Hell of mis-typed commands and open source syntax (where for example, some commands use &#8220;-r&#8221; as an option to make the command recursive and other commands, quite arbitrarily it seems, scorn the lower case and only understand &#8220;-R&#8221; do do exactly the same thing).<\/p>\n<p>The first day&#8217;s frustrations were all about getting the user permissions I needed to start tinkering. Some things worked, but other things were forbidden, and of course in my innocence I thought I was doing something wrong until I finally returned to the support line to find the administrator\u00a0had mis-typed something in setting up my permissions.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I blame him of course, I know how easy it is to mistype something. Readers of my blog have the evidence of that right in front of their eyes. But at least this blog uses actual words, not the contractions, acronyms and symbols so beloved of coders. Then there were three days of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>loading files up to the server, mostly using <em>wget<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>reading up of how to upload from Windows to the server, and deciding that acquiring and using the open source software, <em>pscp<\/em>, to do so sounded very, no,\u00a0<em>too<\/em> complicated;<\/li>\n<li>discovering that if they came from <a title=\"The Git\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/shawngraham\/hist3812a\">github<\/a> where the most excellent <a title=\"Shawn's tutorial on GIS and minecraft (you'll recall I've linked to this before)\" href=\"http:\/\/electricarchaeology.ca\/2014\/09\/30\/historical-maps-topography-into-minecraft-qgis\/\">Shawn Graham<\/a> had published them, then what I was transfering wasn&#8217;t the file, but the web page that held it;<\/li>\n<li>looking again at <em>pscp<\/em>, and again rejecting it;<\/li>\n<li>toying with \u00a0the idea of getting to grips with Git, which seems like proper programmers, stuff, and instead deciding it would be easier to put the files on Dropbox and <em>wget<\/em>\u00a0them from there;<\/li>\n<li>learning how to unzip and archive in ssh, and puzzling over why there were two of everything (binary files I&#8217;m guessing);<\/li>\n<li>trying to get one or other set of files (or a combination of both!) to work by changing the group and permissions to make them look like the ones in the default world (remember to use the recursive option when using <em>chmod<\/em> or <em>chgrp<\/em> on directories so that all the contained files also have their group and permissions changed);<\/li>\n<li>trying to <em>wget<\/em> the directories and files direct and uncompressed from Dropbox, only to discover that process seems to change every file&#8217;s name slightly;<\/li>\n<li>downloading <em>pscp<\/em> and discovering that wouldn&#8217;t open when double clicking on it (oh the innocence!), giving up;<\/li>\n<li>trying to load Git on the server, discovering I didn&#8217;t have permission, and deciding the\u00a0this was an arcane thing\u00a0that no mortal man should know;<\/li>\n<li>finally getting my head around opening <em>pscp<\/em> in\u00a0Windows&#8217; Command Prompt, setting a PATH for it so it would actually work (no I don&#8217;t know either, but it needs to be done, every time);<\/li>\n<li>loving the way that paths are described with &#8220;&#8221; on windows and\u00a0&#8220;\/&#8221; on Linux (and the web);<\/li>\n<li><em>chmod<\/em> and <em>chgrp<\/em>ing again (By this time I&#8217;m feeling quite the expert on these functions. Oh yes I\u00a0can 775 with the best of them!);<\/li>\n<li>all of the above with frequent restarts of minecraft_server.1.8.1.jar to see if what I had done worked (and discovering it didn&#8217;t);<\/li>\n<li>accidentally deleting the actual\u00a0minecraft_server.1.8.1.jar software\u00a0(there&#8217;s no undo in a command line interface);<\/li>\n<li>quickly restoring\u00a0minecraft_server.1.8.1.jar using my new-found <em>pscp<\/em> skills;<\/li>\n<li>restarting to find it <em>still<\/em> didn&#8217;t work<\/li>\n<li>tweaking the name of the <em>players<\/em> directory (to <em>playerstats <\/em>as in the default world)\u00a0and moving the <em>region<\/em> directory (which seemed to have some how escaped from the <em>world<\/em> directory, and restarting again; and,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Its works! Ha-lleh-bloomin&#8217;-lu-yah!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3217\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/memetechnology.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/shawnportustraj.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3217\" src=\"https:\/\/memetechnology.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/shawnportustraj.png?w=300&#038;h=154\" alt=\"The Trajanic Basin from the roof of the Imperial Palace\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trajanic Basin from the roof of the Imperial Palace<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3218\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/memetechnology.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/shawnportuslight.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3218\" src=\"https:\/\/memetechnology.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/shawnportuslight.png?w=300&#038;h=155\" alt=\"The lighthouse at night\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lighthouse at night<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3219\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/memetechnology.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/shawnportushills.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3219\" src=\"https:\/\/memetechnology.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/shawnportushills.png?w=300&#038;h=155\" alt=\"The hills behind Portus in the rain\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hills behind Portus in the rain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So what is it exactly? Well, its the work of a group of Shawn Graham&#8217;s students \u00a0&#8220;3rd year undergrad history class, but [&#8230;]\u00a0a mix of majors; none of them ancient historians&#8221; Shawn explained to me. According to their <a title=\"Class blog\" href=\"http:\/\/hist3812a.dhcworks.ca\/2014\/11\/27\/group-bs-pechakucha-a-slave-in-portus\/\">presentation<\/a>, the intention was to recreate the life of a slave in Portus, by limiting the interactivity. I&#8217;m not sure whether that side of it is actually working in my version, as I seem to be be able to explore with complete freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The model itself is based on <a title=\"Southampton University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/fieldwork\/old-plans\/\">these<\/a> old archaeological (or maybe more appropriately, antiquarian) plans, most specifically \u00a0the ones by Canina. It looks pretty good even without the Romecraft texture pack, which the students used (and which I&#8217;ll install when my head stops hurting).<\/p>\n<p>The server isn&#8217;t publicly available currently, but if you have a University of Southampton username, open a VPN with the university, fire up your copy of Minecraft, click on multiplayer, and seek out this world, which goes under the name of svr00978.soton.ac.uk.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth checking out Shawn&#8217;s <a title=\"On github\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/shawngraham\/hist3812a\/blob\/master\/README.md\">assignment<\/a>\u00a0to his students which, explains why they worked so hard to create this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/memetechnology.wordpress.com\/3216\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/memetechnology.wordpress.com\/3216\/\" \/><\/a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=memetechnology.org&#038;blog=43249545&amp;%23038;post=3216&amp;%23038;subd=memetechnology&amp;%23038;ref=&amp;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like I&rsquo;ve spent the best part of four days learning Linux. Lets be specific (because I&rsquo;ve discovered, you have to be specific), I&rsquo;ve been learning the RedHat distro of Linux which does somethings differently to, for example, Ubunto. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/2014\/12\/19\/its-easy-when-you-know-how\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=memetechnology.org&amp;blog=43249545&amp;post=3216&amp;subd=memetechnology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,536,652],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archeology","tag-minecraft","tag-portus-project","column","threecol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s easy\u2026 when you know how - Archaeology Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2014\/12\/19\/its-easy-when-you-know-how\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s easy\u2026 when you know how - Archaeology Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It feels like I&rsquo;ve spent the best part of four days learning Linux. 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In my free time, I volunteered as a costumed interpreter at Kentwell Hall and, with re-enactment societies, at various medieval sites around the UK and France. When, one evening, a few of us said \u201cwe could make a business out of this\u201d I left my job at the bank to go to college, first to get an Art Foundation and then to Manchester Polytechnic to join an innovative course called Design for Communications Media. I specialised in Educational Media Design, with the intention of applying what I was learning to cultural heritage. During my vacations and upon graduation I worked for the nascent company my friends had started, Past Pleasures, creating immersive living history festivals at Lancaster and Tunbridge Wells, as well as projects including: an exhibition for the centenary of the Commonwealth Institute; a design for a metafictional Sherlock Holmes exhibition in Croydon; and, a game that combined real-time investment advice from 300 year-old characters at the Bank of England Museum with a digital simulation, tracking the players\u2019 investment portfolio from the founding of the bank to its tercentenary. In 1996 I helped found JMD&amp;Co, and for two years I also lectured on Heritage Tourism and Visitor Management and Interpretation modules for a Portsmouth University validated HND\/degree course at Farnborough Technical College. Subsequently, I enrolled in the new Distance Learning delivered Masters\u2019 degree in Museum Studies at Leicester University, where I became interested in the social use of space, particularly Bill Hillier\u2019s \u201cspace syntax,\u201d and the increasing futility of cultural heritage sites trying to tell doggedly linear stories in three-dimensional spaces. Although my dissertation explored models for mapping interpretation, and particularly learning styles, onto spaces, a satisfactory reconciliation of linear story and three-dimensional space eluded me. After graduation, I decided my time in the \u201csmall business\u201d end of cultural heritage was over for a while, and I left JMD&amp;Co to join a cultural institution, the National Trust, as a Regional Community, Learning and Volunteering Manager. 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