Here is how to get an RPM-based Linux distro (example Fedora) to work with the recently released Google talk / video drivers:
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Acquire the driver package at http://www.google.com/chat/video by clicking the download link. This should download a file named “google-talkplugin_current_i386.deb”.
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Put the .deb file in a temporary empty directory, by itself.
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Open a command shell and navigate to that directory.
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Type the following commands (don’t type the ‘$’ at the left):
$ ar vx google-talkplugin_current_i386.deb
$ sudo tar xvzf data.tar.gz -C /
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Step (4) installs the drivers, but there is one problem at present — the Google voice driver needs to have access to particular versions of libraries named “libcrypto” and “libssl”. This is solved by creating symlinks to suitable versions.
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Navigate to /usr/lib
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Type the following commands (Fedora 13) with root authority:
$ ln -s ../../lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0a libcrypto.so.0.9.8
$ ln -s libssl.so.1.0.0a libssl.so.0.9.8
(non-Fedora distributions, and other versions of Fedora, may have different locations and version numbers for these libraries, but the same basic method should work.)
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Navigate to /opt/google/talkplugin
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Type the following command:
$ ./GoogleTalkPlugin
The plugin should respond with:
./GoogleTalkPlugin: /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by ./GoogleTalkPlugin) ./GoogleTalkPlugin: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by ./GoogleTalkPlugin)
But don’t despair — these are warnings, not errors, and the plugin should work.
On some systems, Firefox will now recognize and run the Google Talk plugin. On other systems and for an unknown reason, only the Google Chrome browser will work.
HTH
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Firefox/Chrome/Safari: If Facebook’s a little too cluttered for your taste, the Minimalist Facebook extension/Greasemonkey script can tidy things up. After a quick install, a visit to Facebook will be focused solely on the content you’ve chosen to view.
Facebook’s interface has always managed to confuse me. I’m sometimes unsure of where to click because there are multiple links and headers that all appear to go to the same place. After installing Minimalist Facebook I was happy to find that pretty much all of those distractions are gone and I concentrate on just the page content and the main navigation.
There’s really not much to it. Minimalist Facebook simplifies the Facebook interface so there’s less unwanted crap on the page. Here are a couple of before and after shots to give you an idea of the stuff it removes:
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The TOR Project provides free, distributed worldwide proxies for anonymous browsing and private downloading. TOR comes with a built-in Firefox add-on, but Chrome users can get a handy on/off button for TOR with this setup, explained by commenter brssnkl.
• Step 1: Install TOR (Note: The “Installation Bundle” packages for Windows and Mac are the preferred downloads).
• Step 2: Install Proxy Switchy! in your Chrome browser.
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• Step 4: Go to the “general” tab in the options of Proxy Switchy!. Check the box “Quick switch,” then select “binary switch.” Make Profile 1 “[direct connection]” and Profile 2″ “Tor” (or which name you gave your profile before). Click Save.
• Step 5: Switch between normal connection and TOR connection with your button!
Ed. note: You’ll need to make sure the TOR software is actively running when you hit your Proxy Switchy! button in Chrome. To check if Chrome is actively using TOR for its browsing, right-click the TOR button in your system tray (or, on a Mac, click the onion icon in your status bar) and open the bandwidth monitor tool. Browse to a site with some decently large images, and if TOR’s bandwidth transfer moves up, you’re browsing the web anonymously through TOR and Chrome.
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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The VTzilla Firefox extension adds a Scan with VirusTotal option to Firefox’s right-click context menu and file download dialog that allows you to scan any file for a virus before you download it.
If you’re not familiar with VirusTotal, it's a brilliant web service that scans any file you send it against 42 of the best malware scanners available—and it's the tool we go to when we want to know if a download really has a virus.
You can scan files with VirusTotal by uploading them to their web site, sending them via email, or uploading them via your Windows Send to menu. The VTzilla extension takes one more step out of the equation, allowing you to scan any download before you commit to downloading it to your computer. Even better: Since the latest update to VirusTotal, if the service has already scanned the file in question, the results are almost instantaneous.
VTzilla is a free download, works wherever Firefox does. Note: By default, VTzilla turns on a new toolbar in Firefox. To disable it, navigate to View -> Toolbars, then uncheck VirusTotal Toolbar.
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VirusTotal is a useful tool, but the Firefox add-on is even better, because it makes the process of checking potentially malicious links and files seamless. After installing the add-on, you’ll see that you now have a “Scan with VirusTotal” option in your contextual (right-click) menu:
Scanning a URL with VirusTotal runs the URL through several URL analysis tools (TRUSTe, Google Safebrowsing, Phishtank and others) and returns the results. You’ll also be alerted if any VirusTotal community members have flagged the site as potentially dodgy:
If the link is a file, you can click the “View dowloaded file analysis” link, which will upload the file to VirusTotal and return a comprehensive rundown of the file in various different antivirus tools — all without downloading the file onto your machine.
You’ll also notice that a “Scan with VirusTotal” option has been added to Firefox’s “Open File” menu, which should make it pretty hard to forget to scan any suspicious-looking files before downloading them:
(Note: VTzilla is not yet compatible with the beta of Firefox 4)
Let us know what you think of VTzilla in the comments.
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