#web client

[ssnlinux]

vSphere Web Client on Linux

Before I get into showing you how to get the vSphere web client to work, I need to give a quick back story. If you’re not interested in this, jump down a few paragraphs to “The Problem”. 

I work in a place that uses a heavy amount of VMware. Because of this, I have to be able to login to a client and manage the virtual machines that my team owns. This is fine, assuming you are running Windows or OS X, but not so fine when under Linux. I don’t use Windows at work (or try not to) and just a few months ago, all machines at my desk are now Fedora Linux.

So I knew ahead of time of the web client stopped working because Google did the right thing and disabled NPAPI for good on Linux. This basically made the vSphere Client Integration Plugin useless to me. I ran into this before and was aware that Flash is no longer supported on the Linux platform. Sure it gets security updates once in a while, but it’s stuck on an extremely low version. So low in fact, that my company’s web client asks for at least 11.5 of flash. 

So, I did manage to get vSphere Web to work in Firefox, combination of the plugin, pepper flash and fresh player plugin. However, I ran into one issue. 

This error is annoying. Windows and OS X have this binary packaged with the plugin and yet, here’s the Linux version, clearly missing these binaries. Why? VMware support, who I would think would try to test my method internally, decided to tell me ‘no’ without trying to give any hints on where I could obtain the binaries for Linux. Basically they dodged my question. You don’t tell or do that to a Linux admin. Ever. 

Also, shout out to the VMware support rep and engineers for caring about their customer base. It’s clear you guys really do care about your customers and the communities.

The Problem:

Google disabled NPAPI fully on Chrome for Linux (this is a good thing, regardless)

VMware decided to stay in the dark ages for a while and their 6.0 client is using PPAPI to an extent. So they finally caught up. (Still needs flash)

Adobe no longer updates Flash aside from security updates (this is a good thing because Flash needs to die). 

VMware support decided to not give me any hints or ideas where to obtain “vmware-authd”

Prerequisites: 

Fedora 22 or higher, 64 bit (tested with F23 also)

Firefox browser (chrome or chromium not supported)

vCenter/vSphere 5.5 or above (6.0 also applies)

Third-party RPM’s (links will follow)

Understanding that this is sort of a hack

1. First thing is first, you need a couple of RPM’s. You need freshplayerplugin and chromium-pepper-flash (flash that comes with Chrome). Links below: Chromium Pepper Flash: http://koji.russianfedora.pro/koji/packageinfo?packageID=110  Fresh Player Plugin: http://koji.russianfedora.pro/koji/packageinfo?packageID=134 Make sure to install them... # dnf install *.rpm I’m unsure of any repo that handles these. I have my own and update them occasionally. 2. Ensure that firefox see’s the plugin in the ‘add ons’ (click your menu icon on the top right and click the add ons button). Set it to Ask to Activate.

3. Go to a vSphere Web Console in your environment. 

4. The bottom will usually state to download the Client plugin. Click the link and download the “bundle” file.

5. Install the bundle file. You’ll need to elevate to root to do so. You can also use sudo. 

[nazu@diurne 05:46 PM ~]$ su - [root@diurne 05:47 PM ~]# cd /home/nazu/Downloads/ [root@diurne 05:47 PM ~]# chmod +x *.bundle [root@diurne 05:47 PM Downloads]# ./VMware-ClientIntegrationPlugin-5.5.0.x86_64.bundle

6. Optional: This is only needed if you face an error “invalid username/password” -- Create a file called /etc/vmware/config and place the following in it: 

vmauthd.server.alwaysProxy = "TRUE"

Note: Steps 7-9 is needed for versions lower than 6.0 -- 6.0 should not require this. If you see the vmware-authd error, then proceed with these steps.

7. Download vmware player for linux here

8. Instead of installing it, extract it instead. This will take a few moments for the prompt to come back.

# chmod +x VMware-Player-12.0.0-2985596.x86_64.bundle # ./VMware-Player-12.0.0-2985596.x86_64.bundle -x /root/vm Extracting VMware Installer...done.

9. Copy the binaries and set their permissions. Note: We use SUID because otherwise, the console will still fail to load with one of a few cryptic errors.

# cp ~/vm/vmware-vmx/sbin/vmware-authd* /usr/sbin/ # chmod ugo+x /usr/sbin/vmware-authd* # chmod u+s /usr/sbin/vmware-authd

10. Next, tell SELinux to stop whining (This usually sufficies, you can use audit2why < /var/log/audit/audit.log later if you still have issues/errors)

# setsebool mozilla_plugin_can_network_connect 1

11. Close firefox completely (if it’s not already) and reopen it. Check your plugins.

12. Go back to vSphere and attempt to login. If you see pop-ups to allow the plugins, make sure to set them to allow and refresh the page.

So far so good.

The bad part (yes, there is a bad part):  Pepper flash is not “sandboxed” like most other plugins you would install and use in firefox (due to the wrapper), so it’s sort of a security concern there. Recently, firefox has done the right thing and disabled flash by default. However, because firefox doesn’t know (or recognize) pepperflash actually is flash, my recommendation is to set flash to “Ask to activate” (as noted in Step 2). Otherwise it will just keep activating itself. I’m not a fan of that obviously. I’d prefer to say “never activate”, but unfortunately there are some sites I still need to use flash.

I also had a chance to try this with a 6.0 vCenter/vSphere. Works as intended without issues (and the remote console looks and feels much better). Also, it’s using PPAPI. However, it still needs flash because VMware is working on a VMRC client for Linux™ circa April 17, 2015. I foresee an actual client sometime in 2020.

I hope everyone has found this informative and helpful. 

[abnormalalbum24]

why is my tumblr so fucked

like most interactive text in posts (links, tags) are grey alongside some main buttons on the left.

its straight up unreadable withough highlighting it which, i guess, isnt tha tbig a deal, but its annoying regardless

[ircwebnet]

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Easy modification: If the shade require any adjustments (which it and so will), you can also easily modify a solitary detailed mock-up then qualify the code whereunto all the pages on a web site. Much organic structure clients come off quits to have some say in the design process. Allowing for client feedback during the design phase is a nice clearance for react the decision making power and clock in at the best possible completive design.<\p>

Mint unification: Essentially, the mock-up allows you to put as a whole your design ideas air lock one place from which you will parent all the graphics for the site and have a single, unified vision of the dig into of the site and reckon as alterum build the site.<\p>

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[ircwebnet]

Installazione e configurazione KiwiIRC

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Download e installazione di KiwiIRC Per L’ Installazione e configurazione KiwiIRC è il caso di scaricare il pacchetto corretto per il tuo sistema ed installarlo usando i tuoi soliti metodi di installazione. Puoi trovare l’elenco completo degli installatori qui. Debian / Ubuntu (.deb) Scarica: Kiwi IRC – 32 bit Scarica: Kiwi IRC – 64 bit RHEL / Centos / fedora (.rpm) Scarica: Kiwi IRC – 32…

[tututorial]

WhatsApp PC installieren - „WhatsApp web“

WhatsApp PC installieren – „WhatsApp web“

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Imsy now available on your computer

Releasing Web client for faster chatting

Many of you have written to us that you prefer to chat with friends using your computer when you are on the desk. We are happy to announce the release of a web version of Imsy that you can use from any browser on a computer. 

How does it work

Go to Bots list in your Imsy app and activate the Imsy Web Client bot. You can click on Configure option and create a password for the web client. Then head to http://web.imsy.com from your computer and login using your full phone number (including country code) and the password you created. You will see all your Imsy Contacts and Groups in the web app. Click on any Contact/Group to start chatting. You can also click on the Edit Profile option at the top of the screen to customize your Profile (especially useful on Nokia S40 phones which does not support this feature yet). 

Message History

Note, the web interface presently does not show your old messages. Support for message history is coming soon.

Do give it a try and let us know what you think of it.

[readsocial-blog]

Envisioning ReadSocial.

ReadSocial is an API. Technically that means it's a bunch of code, running complex interactions on a server. It lives in the cloud. In the case of ReadSocial, the code tracks paragraphs and selections, comments, who makes them, who replies, etc., and serves up those conversations on whatever device that text appears. But at its core it is just lines and lines of code that the average user can't see. That can make it hard to imagine. 

For programmers that's alright. Once they get the core concept they can often begin to think about how to use it. But for the sake of discussion (and speed), we also offer a few pieces of ReadSocial for the front-end. Pieces you can see. User interfaces that you can look at and understand. They give us a basis to talk about how it might work inside your content. These code libraries also let you get up and running immediately - if you like them you can use them right out of the box. One is for web-based content. The other is for iPad apps. The clients are open-source, so you can update them with your logo. Or change the look-and-feel. You can build completely new clients from what we've given you, to make it fully customizable. Just tie them to our backend and you're good to go. You get the idea.

I've added a few screenshots of our web and iPad clients to this post. The functionality is the same for both, they just look a little different, because one is on the web and the other is, well, on the iPad. But they both do the same thing - enable conversations inside a piece of text, and move those conversations across systems, to wherever that text lives.