Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Google Hangouts Video Call - Allow both talk plugins...

Ok, I just spent 30 minutes tinkering with Google Hangouts (Fedora, Chrome) to try to get video calling working.  Every time I tried to initiate a video call, a new window would pop up with a message that read:

Select "Allow" for both Google Talk plugins in order to access the video call.

Of course, there isn't anything to click to enable the plugins.  Weird.

Eventually, I found out that by telling Chrome to automatically run all plugins, it would work.

chrome://settings/content

Scroll down to "Plug-ins" and select "Run automatically (recommended)"

Once that's done, start a video call; works fine.

Since I'm paranoid, I went back and changed the Plug-ins setting back to "Click to play" and, guess what?  Video calling still works!

(Lustre) Best practice for changing file permissions

On a Lustre filesystem, don't use chmod/chgrp/chown by themselves.

The best method incorporates the lfs find command:
lfs find <subdirectory> | xargs chgrp <new group>
chmod or chown commands with -R option (or using the normal find) are not very fast if the subdirectory contains lots of files.