Ask HN: Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration

Re:Ask HN: Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group col... by paulbaumgart on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:30AM (#608304)

Desktop sharing doesn't seem to work on my system (Thinkpad T60 w/ Ubuntu 8.10), and it makes my browser nearly unresponsive, even when it's the only Firefox tab. (It's a 1.83 GHz/core Centrino Duo w/ 3 GB RAM- what's your minimum system requirements?)

Also, I wasn't able to get other people to join me using the "invite" link- is there some sort of port forwarding I need to set up for this to work?

If everything worked, I'd definitely pay a reasonable monthly fee for it. So far, though, all I can do is scribble on the whiteboard.

(My contact info is linked in my profile.)

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Re:Ask HN: Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group col... by zhyder on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:43AM (#608319)

Your HW should be more than enough. It could be an issue with the version of your Java plugin. Do you know if you have at least 1.5?

The invite link should just work; no other setup is needed. Can you email me the link?

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Re:Ask HN: Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group col... by paulbaumgart on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:53AM (#608325)

I tried restarting Firefox, and desktop sharing works! I'm using the standard Java 1.6 plugin that comes with Ubuntu 8.10- anyway, glad it works now. We can continue this conversation via email.

Edit: Eh, it ended up making Firefox pretty unresponsive in the end, but I did see a screenshot of my desktop for a while, at least. :-)

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Re:Ask HN: Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group col... by zhyder on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:58AM (#608332)

Man I really hate Java applets.

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