Hi Hartmut,
Please know that what I said to Michael applies to you just the same. Send me a private message through Jitsi, an e-mail to alberto@abrao.net, or just a text message to - or call - 204-558-6886.
Also, if any of you - or both - are willing, we can schedule a time for a quick meeting to sort these issues out together.
We want to make sure everyone can join our virtual gatherings, especially now that it looks like we will be doing them electronically for... well, the foreseeable future, I guess. :S
:)
Kind regards, Alberto Abrao
On 2020-12-09 10:39 a.m., Hartmut W Sager wrote:
Hi all, especially Michael, you are not the only one. I was largely unsuccessful too. First, the login seemed to want to fail, but succeeded after some time, and then, the whole first part of the meeting ("show your gadgets") was a disaster, with only about 10-20% of the (broken) audio and video getting through. The second part (calendar topic) was somewhat better, with about 30-40% of the (broken) audio and video getting through. The third part (final informal round table) was similar, but my numerous attempts to join that discussion all failed. Nobody even heard me trying to speak. (Yes, I did at that time have my mic turned on for whole minutes at a time.) It just wasn't a "real time" experience at all.
I couldn't totally rule out my 11-year-old laptop being insufficient for this, but now I see I'm not the only one. I was using MS Edge (newest Chromium-based one) for this, for two reasons. First, I was too afraid to upset my normal (totally up-to-date) Firefox, where I always have lots of important things open. Secondly, though Firefox is my main browser, I have learned that certain things tend to freeze or crash my Firefox, and a Chromium-based browser does much better on those things. Also, Firefox is terrible at freeing up memory and whatever else when I've used (and later closed) a lot of tabs.
Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 10:09, Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com mailto:kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com> wrote:
Which browser are you using? I have had trouble in the past with Chrome. On a whim I fired up Opera and it worked fine. I haven’t tried other browsers with Jitsi yet. On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:06 Michael Doob <Michael.Doob@umanitoba.ca <mailto:Michael.Doob@umanitoba.ca>> wrote: Hi Everyone -- Am I the only one who had a jitsi failure last night? After a bit of a struggle just to log in, there was no way I could get the audio to work. I've never had a problem for previous meetings. Too bad I'm not a lip reader. I could see them moving. Was our attendance lower that what might be expected? While I'm here: it's dues-paying time for me. Do we have inteac e-transfers set up for our banking. I could make the direct deposit and avoid any fees being charged to MUUG. Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Doob Telephone: (204) 474-9796 Senior Scholar Department of Mathematics email: Michael.Doob@UManitoba.ca University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca <mailto:Roundtable@muug.ca> https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable <https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable> _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca <mailto:Roundtable@muug.ca> https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable <https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable>
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