Thanks to everybody who replied to my post back in June for advice on
computing for my 83-year old mum, who has Alzheimer's. I've had a
Dreamplug with a 10-inch USB touchscreen monitor up and running at her
house for the past couple of weeks, and it's worked really well.
The Dreamplug runs Debian Squeeze, vino-server, and an SSH daemon. I've
been able to launch vncviewer and start video chats (Ekiga), show her
photos, and play music. After much searching, I've found a music player
that plays nicely with cron (moc), so I can play random selections of
music for her during the day, when I'm at work.
I've still got to tighten up security - haven't managed to get
encrypted vnc working properly, although it's secured with a password. I
also want to install my public keys on mum's computer, and disable
password logon.
I've learnt a heck of a lot about Linux through doing this, and it's
made a big difference to mum.
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Kevin Safford
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