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More on Jack...

Well, jack isn't working well with non jack applications. The jack-plug doesn't always work and I can't get it to be stable. I'll continue to look into it. If I find anything I'll post it here. For now I'll use jack with applications that support jack.

Enhanced security in Chromium

I moved away from Firefox to Chromium (the open source part of Google Chrome ). When I moved I search for all the extensions I used in Firefox. One of them was Flashblock . There is also a Flashblock for Google Chrome but I wanted to block all plugins until I say so. Luckily, Google Chrome has that option. Just got to about:flags and enable on the Click to Play flag (this is available in the latest beta of Google Chrome 9, I don't know about the stable Google Chrome 8). Restart the Browser so the flag comes into use. Then enable click to play for the plugins as follows: Open the Preferences, go to "Under the Hood", Right under the "Privacy" click the button "Content Settings...". Then select "Plug-ins" and choose the brand new "Click to play" option. When you open pages with plugins an icon will appear in the address bar indicating that plugins were blocked. You can use the icon and enable all the plugins for the page, but I pre

Using jack to record telcos and screen

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At my job we use VOIP regularly when making conferences or simply calling a colleague. We also have a screen sharing tool that we use to share the screen to remote participants. This is also used to make remote training sessions. What I've been missing is a way to record both the shared screen and sound for later viewing. I hacked jack a little in the past but didn't manage to get it working. I've been having some free time so I decided to hack it today and I finally got it working. So, from the start. Gentoo's JACK guide on the wiki is not bad but I honestly didn't pay much attention to it. I have the jack use flag enabled globally so it was time to get it going. First I emerged qjackctl . It is nice program that sits on the tray area (I have it default to hidden) that starts the jack daemon and that allows you to control what is connected to where. I also emerged alsa-plugins to get the alsa-jack plugin. Finally I emerge jamin . I need it just to be able to