NMGLugers, Just wanted to say "Hello World" from my isolated home. I am well and have done on e re-install to keep myself busy. A few of my 'tutees' call in with questions and I can solve a few without getting my hands on the various computers. For myself I will be researching a condition of 'locked UEFI partition' which did get resolved by some automation in the Linux Mint 19 Tricia usb I was loading from. I've taken a look with 'efibootmgr' but not pursued it further. I'm not a big fan of Mint, but it works and i have recommended it as a good place to start very new Gnu/Linux users. They and I appreciate the builtin parts that make most settings easy to find and personalize. I am still getting used to the menu system. The next thing I want to learn is how to get remoted in to these people on an ad hoc basis. I can rtfm and search the 'net for answers. I am sure that there are many answers. Have a good week and no, I will not be going out for several weeks. Glad I have my computer in running order. Thank you, Ted P.
Stay safe Ted and I hope that your health issues have improved. Brian On 3/26/20 11:54 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
NMGLugers, Just wanted to say "Hello World" from my isolated home. I am well and have done on e re-install to keep myself busy. A few of my 'tutees' call in with questions and I can solve a few without getting my hands on the various computers. For myself I will be researching a condition of 'locked UEFI partition' which did get resolved by some automation in the Linux Mint 19 Tricia usb I was loading from. I've taken a look with 'efibootmgr' but not pursued it further. I'm not a big fan of Mint, but it works and i have recommended it as a good place to start very new Gnu/Linux users. They and I appreciate the builtin parts that make most settings easy to find and personalize. I am still getting used to the menu system. The next thing I want to learn is how to get remoted in to these people on an ad hoc basis. I can rtfm and search the 'net for answers. I am sure that there are many answers. Have a good week and no, I will not be going out for several weeks. Glad I have my computer in running order. Thank you, Ted P.
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Ted> The next thing I want to learn is how to get remoted in to Ted> these people on an ad hoc basis. I can rtfm and search the 'net Ted> for answers. TEd, on March 12th, at the start of our physical isolation, I posted about Jitsi. I have been using it quite successfully to run my classes and my chess club, with up to 13 people at a time. I have had up to 13 people with no trouble, although I always decrease my video quality to low-def. The problems are not with jitsi, but rather with network load at peak times. And the startup is so trivial: you can just send out a URL like: https://meet.jit.si/WorkWithTed and tell people to click on it. Their browser will ask for permission to use camera and mic. No setup, no accounts, just go. There's also an android app available on f-droid; seems to work quite well. And it's free (as in freedom) softare. You can then share windows, so they can show you what they're doing and you can see what fails. Or they can point their phone at their screen :-) If you want to actually do stuff on their machine you'll need to go a bit farther - it's hard to ssh in to a typical home network 'cause the owner would have to set up forwarding of port 22, but you can have them ssh in to a common server opening a reverse port.
I've been looking for a free alternative to Zoom and Jitsi seems to fit the bill. However it cannot access the mic. I'm using it in Chromium 80.0. I've searched the web and I can't find a fix simple enough for my skills. Mic works fine otherwise for Zoom, Skype. Is there a simple fix for this issue? I also get the same result using an external mic. Many Thanks Brian On 3/26/20 12:33 PM, Mark Galassi wrote:
Ted> The next thing I want to learn is how to get remoted in to Ted> these people on an ad hoc basis. I can rtfm and search the 'net Ted> for answers.
TEd, on March 12th, at the start of our physical isolation, I posted about Jitsi.
I have been using it quite successfully to run my classes and my chess club, with up to 13 people at a time. I have had up to 13 people with no trouble, although I always decrease my video quality to low-def. The problems are not with jitsi, but rather with network load at peak times.
And the startup is so trivial: you can just send out a URL like:
https://meet.jit.si/WorkWithTed
and tell people to click on it. Their browser will ask for permission to use camera and mic. No setup, no accounts, just go.
There's also an android app available on f-droid; seems to work quite well.
And it's free (as in freedom) softare.
You can then share windows, so they can show you what they're doing and you can see what fails. Or they can point their phone at their screen :-)
If you want to actually do stuff on their machine you'll need to go a bit farther - it's hard to ssh in to a typical home network 'cause the owner would have to set up forwarding of port 22, but you can have them ssh in to a common server opening a reverse port. _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list nmglug@lists.nmglug.org http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org
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Brian can you join me now at You are invited to join a meeting. Join the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/nmglug-daytime To join by phone instead, tap this: +1.512.402.2718,,291852675# Looking for a different dial-in number? See meeting dial-in numbers: https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=nmglug-daytime If also dialing-in through a room phone, join without connecting to audio: https://meet.jit.si/nmglug-daytime#config.startSilent=true Ted P. On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:46 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
I've been looking for a free alternative to Zoom and Jitsi seems to fit the bill. However it cannot access the mic. I'm using it in Chromium 80.0. I've searched the web and I can't find a fix simple enough for my skills. Mic works fine otherwise for Zoom, Skype. Is there a simple fix for this issue? I also get the same result using an external mic.
Many Thanks
Brian On 3/26/20 12:33 PM, Mark Galassi wrote:
Ted> The next thing I want to learn is how to get remoted in to Ted> these people on an ad hoc basis. I can rtfm and search the 'net Ted> for answers.
TEd, on March 12th, at the start of our physical isolation, I posted about Jitsi.
I have been using it quite successfully to run my classes and my chess club, with up to 13 people at a time. I have had up to 13 people with no trouble, although I always decrease my video quality to low-def. The problems are not with jitsi, but rather with network load at peak times.
And the startup is so trivial: you can just send out a URL like: https://meet.jit.si/WorkWithTed
and tell people to click on it. Their browser will ask for permission to use camera and mic. No setup, no accounts, just go.
There's also an android app available on f-droid; seems to work quite well.
And it's free (as in freedom) softare.
You can then share windows, so they can show you what they're doing and you can see what fails. Or they can point their phone at their screen :-)
If you want to actually do stuff on their machine you'll need to go a bit farther - it's hard to ssh in to a typical home network 'cause the owner would have to set up forwarding of port 22, but you can have them ssh in to a common server opening a reverse port. _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing listnmglug@lists.nmglug.orghttp://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org
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