Category: Online Services

Gmail Notifier

sphillips GMail, Uncategorized Leave a comment

A couple of emails came through the other day that I didn’t catch right away.  This set me on a quest for a good notification system for my email.  I need something where if I step away from my computer for 30 seconds that I can see that I got an email during that time.  Or, if I am working on something that I can’t stop, I need something that will quietly sit and remind me that something needs attention when I have a chance.

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WebEx on 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10

sphillips Uncategorized, WebEx 7 Comments

Periodically, I use WebEx with work. It seems like it is just often enough to remind me that I didn’t make sure it was working since my last install.

Well, thanks to Russ Lowenthal, I found an easy fix to get it working.

Ask Ubuntu: How to I make Cisco WebEx work with 13.10 64bit?

Existing directory

Well first, he has you look for missing libraries in the config directory. The problem is, I had two of them already.

$ ls $HOME/.webex 
1124  1424  lastshareindex.bak

I just deleted the directory to start from scratch.

rm -r .webex/

I started a new WebEx from my browser. I just logged into the meeting and ended it. After that, I had just one directory there:

$ ls $HOME/.webex 
1424

As a side note, the Meeting Center opens at this point. I just can’t share my desktop or view someone else’s.

Finding Missing Libraries

Next, I ran this command to identify the missing libraries.

ldd $HOME/.webex/1424/*.so >>check.txt

I could have opened the check.txt with gedit or something like that. It was easier to use grep to find all of the “not found” lines:

$ grep "not found" check.txt 
	libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
	libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
	libXmu.so.6 => not found
	libXtst.so.6 => not found
	libjawt.so => not found
	libjawt.so => not found
	libXmu.so.6 => not found
	libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => not found
	libXft.so.2 => not found
	libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => not found
	libpangox-1.0.so.0 => not found

Then, I installed the apt-file program.

sudo apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update

Finally, I used it to search each of the libraries that were not found.

$ apt-file search libXmu.so.6
libxmu6: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6
libxmu6: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6.2.0
libxmu6-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6.2.0

Once I knew the libraries, I could use that to install them. Not each of these actually installed packages because some were dependencies.

sudo apt-get install -y libgtk2.0-0:i386
sudo apt-get install -y libxmu6:i386
sudo apt-get install -y libgcj14-awt:i386
sudo apt-get install -y libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386
sudo apt-get install -y libxft2:i386
sudo apt-get install -y libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386
sudo apt-get install -y libpangox-1.0-0:i386

I didn’t even have to reboot or even restart my browser. The next meeting worked fine and showed me the shared desktop.

Amazon Prime Fix Again

sphillips Amazon Instant Video, Ubuntu, Uncategorized 2 Comments

We have enjoyed watching many of the Amazon Prime videos in the past.  Unfortunately, on the last few machines that I have rebuilt, they wouldn’t play.  It just said to upgrade the Flash Player.  The usual tricks didn’t work.

Update: I found a different but easier solution for Ubuntu 13.10. See this post.

Thanks to Ask Ubuntu and Aaron, I found the solution.  In summary, here are the commands that got the job done:

sudo apt-get install hal
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/information
/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes
rm -rf ~/.adobe

Here are the steps…

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Great Link: CDN for Angular, Bootstrap, etc.

digitaleagle CDN, Javascript, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I was looking for a CDN to use with Bootstrap and Angular, and I found a great resource.  CDNjs.com ended up doing the trick.  I also learned that you can discover many great Javascript libraries and projects by going through the offerings of different CDNs.  So, with that being said, here is a list of the CDNs that  I discovered:

Just to give you an idea of what I ended up with, here’s part of the <head> of my project.  I used the head javascript library for most of the javascript:

<head>
	<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.1/css/bootstrap-combined.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
	<link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/3.0.2/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
	
	<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/headjs/0.99/head.min.js"></script>
	<link type="text/css" href="css/devtools.css" rel="stylesheet" />	
	
	<script>
		head.js(
			//  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ace-discuss/rNckG17-7ac
			//  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5733275/chrome-uncaught-syntax-error-unexpected-token-illegal
			"//d1n0x3qji82z53.cloudfront.net/src-min-noconflict/ace.js",
			"//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js", 
			"//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js", 
			"//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.1.1/angular.min.js",
			"js/app.js",
			function() {
				/* My initialization ... */
			}
		);
	</script>

If you know of a CDN that I missed, please comment below!

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Google Voice Voicemail Rings

digitaleagle Google Phone, Google Voice, Great Links, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I have really enjoyed using the Google Voice option for voicemail on my cell phone.  The cool part is that it sends me an email with the voicemail message.  The message is attached in sound form and it also makes an attempt to do voice recognition.  The one disadvantage is that it rings way too many times.  Some people give up on leaving a message because it rings so many times.  Well, thanks to Evan Wondrasek, I found a fix!

Here’s the original article:

Techorator: How to Prevent Extra Rings using Google Voice as Voicemail

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