I sometimes attend webinars in my spare time, however with Gotowebinar there is a problem
If you attempt to attend the meeting a few hours ahead of the meeting starting, you get a web page asking you to come back at the meeting time.
If you come back at the meeting time, there is a mandatory download of an executable. Sadly in some locked down environments you can't do the download. You might not want to either, but since you've had no notice of a download being a requirement your chances of overcoming the security lockdown on your PC preventing downloads and getting this resolved before the meeting is over is probably nil.
So here is the simple solution:
Spoof your browser ident to make it look like you are running Linux or Chromium OS and then you can join instantly from your browser, just the way it should be.
Google "Chrome user agent" and you can get info on how to do this from the developer window, however if you can install extensions then install the UA spoofer and then right click on the icon to customise it
Add this setting
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 6457.94.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.114 Safari/537.36
and ensure it is marked Replace rather than Append and give it a meaningful name such as Chrome OS and a shortcut of COS.
You can then configure in the "permanent" settings gotowebinar.com to have a permanent override to invoke the COS ident string, thus your everyday browsing is unaffected.
One day Citrix will abandon the requirement for a download, Google hangouts which is free already have.
Craig
Total Pageviews
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
Today I joined a group determined to fight spam through legal action . It has already been successful with one high profile victory. I also ...
-
United States Patent Application: 0060071122 . Well, full marks for trying I suppose. Short term memory loss when walking to the bus stop a...
-
The modelling of cause and effect is well established in various fields of science. An event (cause) results in an effect and the two event...
-
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "John Macleod" < john@andarach.com > Date: 6 Feb 2014 17:21 Subject: Gaelic ev...
-
My article about Dyson's breakdown problems made the front page of reddit and hopefully this article on Bosch will do so too because m...
-
Supposing I could transform job seeking in terms of the experience the candidate has. Who would find that useful? There's 500,000 paid m...
-
Please send any updates, corrections or additions to John please at the address below ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Mac...
-
In relation to further powers for the Scottish Parliament, I wrote to my SNP MSP recently. Feel free to reuse, share etc. Smith Commission...
-
I sometimes attend webinars in my spare time, however with Gotowebinar there is a problem If you attempt to attend the meeting a few hours...
-
On 28 Feb 2016, Dr Travis Bradberry published an article How Body Language Trumps IQ and within 24 hours it's had well over 300,000...
No comments:
Post a comment