Re: [PLUG] Migrating content - MediaWiki or WordPress?
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023, Keith Lofstrom wrote: So - which format may be less prone to long term bit-rot and security fails, MediaWiki or WordPress? What will be easier for a future disciple (if any) to host and expand on their own website? This seems like asking which 1980 BBS system or Usenet UUCP mailing list is easiest to migrate to Twitter. It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. You're asking which publication software will last, which seems an odd question because yo want to know about keeping your content alive, not about keeping its current html presentation. If I were asking, my question would concern which markup language will be most resistant to deprecation over the next several years. Were I betting, I'd say markdown currently has the inside track for longevity since it's github's current markup of choice -- and several other content generators can use it as well. This assumes that you don't have dynamic content of a sort that requires an database that can be queried. If that's the case, I have no answer for you. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W
Re: [PLUG] Venue for next month ...
On Wed, 8 Mar 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ridership on all mass transit has fallen and is stagnant. The original dream was they would get all of the middle and upper middle class people riding it when the Freeways like I5 and US 26 were overcapacity. For 4 decades highway policy in PDX has been to encourage congestion in order to force people out of cars into transportation Alternatives. Ted, In 1973 I was living in east central Illinois (Urbana) when the arab oil embargo hit. The politicos in DC urged eveyone to use public transportation which was readily available in the Boston-DC corridor but not in flyover country. Urbana/Champaign had no bus service and few taxis. The railroad passenger train stopped once per day (as it did in Pocatello, ID, too). We had no alternative but drive in our POVs. I recall in the 1990's literally going 5Mph all the way from Cornelius Pass Road to downtown PDX at 5pm at night. No longer, it's been years since it's been like that. When I arrived in Portland in 1990 I lived in NE and commuted to an office downtown. Buses took about 45 minutes in the morning and 1 hour or more in the evening. There were no places to park near a MAX stop. It took me about 15 minutes (morning) and 30 minutes (evening) to drive the 3 or so miles. I was told that Portland deliberately limited parking downtown to get people to use MAX or buses, but they provided parking no closer than Gateway (as I learned when I moved to Troutdale), and that lot was small and had high vehicle damage incidents. I wrote to the city suggesting they put a parking structure over I-84 at 42nd Ave which is a hub for bus and light rail. Never received a response. The furthest eastern MAX terminus is about 3 miles from home and it took more than 1 hour each way to commute to downtown so I soon gave up on that. Policies may be nice in theory but have unintended consequences. Rich
Re: [PLUG] "Ancient" Verizon fiber Re: Verizon towers ...
On Wed, 8 Mar 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: They use a box that has a chip in it where it converts the fax tones from your fax machine to some protocol I forget the name of (fax over internet) then when that protocol comes out into the PTSN it's converted back to a fax. Unfortunately your fax machine has to support this protocol. It's part of all newer fax machines. Ted, Thanks very much for the explanation. Regards, Rich
Re: [PLUG] "Ancient" Verizon fiber Re: Verizon towers ...
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023, Russell Senior wrote: I would not expect a fax to work on their voip product. Yep. Mine's dead. Not sure what to do with it. More tragic from my perspective, pulse dialing doesn't work. Well, if it's dead it has no pulse. Rich
