[Rivet] [Professor] RivetProfessor Virtual Machine

[Daniel Weyh]

while(!brain.empty()){
  readme.fill(brain.output());
}

I've filled the readme a bit, and did some little changes to the VM (not uploaded so far).
Also I think I figured out a quite performant way of updating the VM, so we should not have to bother about number of cycles.

As I'm not good at writing I think I simply append the latest README.txt (which will be placed in the tarball and on the Desktop?) - 
this is probably more performant than packing it in the tarball and let you download that one ;-)

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Take your chance and correct me/fill some more in.
Otherwise this file will make it in the tarball!

Cheers,
Daniel

PS: Should we create some fancy wallpaper with (really) basic instructions and funny arrows where to click and so on...? ;-)

Am 09.08.2011 um 16:46 schrieb Andy Buckley:

> Great :)  Torbjorn also made the good point that the README needs to contain some very explicit step by step installation instructions for use with VirtualBox.
> 
> I think the issue of keyboard layout setting should also be mentioned in the README -- the VM's next major outing will be at an MC school in Japan ;) IMO we should also name the next VM image something like MCnetVM-1.1 -- the usage interest is wider than Rivet and Professor since it contains several "new" generator codes, and we need to make it obvious from the downloads list that it is a VM! Otherwise we'll get people thinking that it is an 800MB Rivet+Professor tarball!
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 09/08/11 14:56, Daniel Weyh wrote:
>> It is, acutally - but it's possible I screwed the launch bar (mine was gone, now I looked after it... O.o).
>> But if there is a launch bar, click most left button and then Preferences ->  Lxkeymap should work.
>> But, of course I can put it on the desktop for next release.
>> 
>> Am 09.08.2011 um 14:48 schrieb Hendrik Hoeth:
>> 
>>> Thus spake Daniel Weyh (weyh at physik.hu-berlin.de):
>>> 
>>>> "setxkbmap de" e.g. works for me on the command line.
>>>> Should I add some note to the README or create some small GUI to click
>>>> on the desktop?
>>> 
>>> Yes.  ;-)
>>> 
>>> (doesn't Ubuntu already come with such a gui by default?)
>>> 
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