Daily Archive for October 11th, 2006

mplayer does not like my wireless

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Anton
on October 11, 2006
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I don’t know if it is the wpa encryption, or just the extra latency of wireless, but mplayer plays funnily over my new wireless lan.

I figured out how to make mplayer work mplayer -cache 4096 certainly made it work, but did mean several seconds longer startup as it had to cache another 4Mb of data before beginning playback. I could put that option in my mplayer config file and then I won’t have to type it, but it is not the proper solution. Really I want the mounted network filesystem to do some read ahead caching for the data, but I have no idea whether samba can do it (I certainly cannot find an option for it).

I suppose I could look at using nfs to share my files (this is between 2 linux machines after all) but have never done much with nfs, so don’t know if it will actually work any better.

Anyone know a samba option or used nfs much?

Catholic Parrots

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Anton
on October 11, 2006
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A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, “Father, I have a problem.  I have two female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing.”

“What do they say?” the priest inquired.

They say, “Hi, we’re hookers! Do you want to have some fun?”

“That’s obscene!” the priest exclaimed; then he thought for a moment.  You know,” he said, “I may have a solution to your problem. I have two male talking parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the Bible.  Bring your two parrots over to my house, and we’ll put them in the cage with Bill and Jacob. My parrots can teach your parrots to pray and worship, and your parrots are sure to stop saying that phrase in no time.”

“Thank you,” the woman responded, “this may very well be the solution.”

The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest’s house.  As he ushered her in, she saw that his two male parrots were inside their cage, holding rosary beads and praying.  Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots in with them. After a few minutes, the female parrots cried out in unison: “Hi, we’re hookers!  Do you want to have some fun?”

There was stunned silence.

Shocked, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and exclaimed, “Put the beads away, Bill, our prayers have been answered.”