63252025
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Milo_Mindbender writes:
I'm trying to find a bulletproof near zero maintenance video conferencing client for shared use in an Alzheimers living facility. It's used so the patients can regularly see their relatives who are often out of town. Most everything I've tried on PC or Mac requires tweeks/updates from time to time to keep it working, not good in a place where there are no computer savvy people. It looks like most of the low cost dedicated boxes have died out too. The ideal setup will be turnkey with little-to-no maintenance and if possible support auto-answering calls from approved users. It needs to be compatible with video conferencing apps the relatives can easily get on phone/tablet/pc such as Skype, Facetime, Hangouts...etc.
Any suggestions?
10667568
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Milo_Mindbender writes:
I've recently got hold of an old Altos 586 Xenix system (a late 80's Microsoft flavor of Unix) that has one of the first multiuser BBS systems in the US on it and want to salvage the historical BBS posts off it. I'm wondering if anyone remembers what format XENIX used on the 10MB (yes MB) IDE hard drive and if it can still be read on a modern Linux system. This system is quite old, has no removable media or ethernet and just barely works, the only other way to get data off is a slow serial port. I've got a controller that should work with the disk, but don't want to tear this old machine apart without some hope that it will work. Anyone know?
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Milo_Mindbender writes:
I've just ended up in charge of cleaning up an old and rather large website created by some non technical people. It has all the usual problems, paragraph tags with no close paragraphs, mixed case file names that work on windows but not on a Linux webserver, files with mixed windows/linux/mac line endings, duplicates or partial duplicates of files created when working on pages...etc. I'm wondering what tools you guys keep in your HTML/website toolboxes that work good for cleaning up this sort of mess. Things like prettyprinters, HTML "lint" programs, dead file detectors, batch renamers (that change links and the files they point to into OS neutral names) and "diff" programs that ignore HTML whitespace. I'm particularly interested in batch processing tools that actually fix problems (not just report them) because I've got a lot of files to fixup and don't have the time to edit every one by hand. So what's in YOUR toolbox?
