Jaqback, Issue 4
In our fourth Jaqback, Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge read out your letters, share your Shot Of Jaq ideas, and discuss other happenings going inside the awesome Shot Of Jaq community.
Remember, we are the very first part of the conversation. What do you think about the opinions and ideas shared from the Shot Of Jaq listeners in this show? Share your thoughts in the show comments below…
22 Comments to “Jaqback, Issue 4”
Leave a Reply
Google video chat works through Empathy, I think, though I haven’t actually tested it with an actual human being.
You are right: I have must have zoned out when we were discussing that – I use it all the time when chatting to folks using Empathy. I am a spud at times it seems.
I was trying to get this working the other day, but I couldn’t even find somewhere on the web clearly stating that it was supported. Empathy seems to come with close to no instructions, and there are no echo test addresses to call
My experience entirely. Jono might have had loads of success; I have not
Ekiga works for about 3 seconds, and then unaccountably cuts out. And I’ve had Empathy working somewhere else but not on my home network. All that firewall hole-punching stuff clearly still isn’t ready for prime time
Gerv
Matt – the Graphics guy….
In a word ……yes!
Yes indeed!
Matt, seriously, do it! Fantastic idea!
I listen to Shot of Jaq in Rhythmbox and when today’s episode, Jaqback issue 4, started, I had that strange feeling of deja vu. It actually points to the issue 3. Check http://feeds.feedburner.com/ShotOfJaq and you will see two files in this episode: issue 3 and issue 4. I think Rhythmbox got confused because of this. Thank you for this great podcast.
Started the shotofjaq drinking game on the scratchpad. According to the current rules someone playing the game would have had to drink 8 Shots of Jaq whilst listening to this Jaqback.
Was there a link to Alpaca Herder’s cast?
Hey, Canonical workers, Google chat (text, audio, and video) works perfectly in Ubuntu under Empathy…
Audio always worked in safari?????
Laughed so hard at the alpaca/llama comments that my husband called out from the living room to see what the hell I was listening to. And thanks for the shout-out for my T-shirt pic.
Just thought I’d point out that the Windows version of Safari works under Wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16867
sil: You could use that to test perhaps?
I could. But…I am not convinced that Windows Safari and Mac Safari are anything like the same thing. I test in WebKit browsers (Chrome and Epiphany); it might be worth extra tests in Windows Safari, but it’s towards the end of my list.
I agree. Yesterday I tried using the empathy video chat (audio works fine, it turns out, with the latest lucid packages) and it screwed up my router so badly that I had to restart the router. This is not the seamless experience that has been touted. Maybe Linksys have built a router with bugs in its UPnP handling, but that’s not the point…
See, now, with a lot of folks I’d roll my eyes at this one. But you’re a lot more tech savvy than most. What the hell did it do to your router?
Did your router just stop responding, or lock up or something?
Also, thanks for getting my name read out in this shot
I had an email read out back in the lugradio days, and now I’ve been mentioned here. I’m some kind of winner.
Router…stopped responding. My computer thought it was connected, and it wasn’t. Very weird. I had to power cycle the router to make it respond.
You tried it a few times and established repeatability, yeah?
What kind of router you using?
I have. My router is a Linksys WRT54G2, with up-to-date firmware.