Daily Breakfast #133
Rowan Atkinson as rev. Walter Goodfellow in ‘Keeping Mum’
In this Daily Breakfast: shoes, underwear and airport security; bishops, priests, soccer and cloning Sophia Loren; Keeping Mum review; the real ‘ANY’ key; Geek trouble with Apple’s iSight; SQPN prayer group and a quote from Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
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Fly home? that’s what you said on episode 132 aswell. I lost track father.
but great to have an other one at hand.
Gerben
D’oh! I usually copy and paste info from the previous episode in Wordpress and adapt the text. I forgot to delete the existing info. Should be gone now..
I’m glad you made it back home safely Father Roderick. It was fun to see another daily breakfast today - I figured you’d be too jet lagged to do another show.
just kidding you ;-). And indeed cool that you did one.
Hi Fr Roderick,
Good to hear you arrived back home safely (and not sent to Guantanamo Bay for explosive underwear).
With regard to the iSight camera on your Mac, you may want to make sure that the appropriate ports have been opened on the Mac’s built-in firewall. Check in the System Preferences > Sharing. Under the Firewall tab, create a new item for iChat AV (if it’s not there already) and open ports 5060, 5190, 5297 and 5298 under TCP. That should allow all audio/video traffic through.
Also, Apple has set-up a few automated test users so that anyone can play around with their settings to make sure they are working well in iChat. Add the following screen names: “appleu3test01″, “appleu3test02″ and “appleu3test03″. If you are able to connect correctly, you’ll see a looping video and your own image in the local user’s area of the video chat.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Dan
@Dan: thanks for the test user tip! I finally managed to get it working: it proved to be a problem with my Speedtouch 510 modem. I had to use telnet to reconfigure it and make it work with iChat. Ouch! Not the kind of stuff you would expect when working with Apple hardware!
i liked hearing the section about preists and soccer well in australia you can play in the church comp.
there is one catholic church in this comp and that’s St. Pauls which is a smallish parish next to my parish we all share the same preists.
Fr,
The song ‘Back Home’ that you played on this DB episode is great! How did you mix the sound of the plane at the preamble of the track? Was it recorded on your way back home to Amsterdam?
Raymond, I had some stock airplane soundclips laying around that I mixed in to evoke the atmosphere of the flight back home.
Good stuff, Father. Glad to hear you were able to get the iSight running. I’d have never guessed your modem was the culprit.
I have been to the US a couple of times and indeed it is easier to get out then to get in. And I should have warned you: don’t make jokes. When I heard that you were joking to the guy behind you, I directly got a bit scared about the ending of the story
but lucky the security didn’t hear you.
I went to cooking school, and one trick I learned there was if you’re eating food that’s too spicy, what really works to soothe the hotness in your mouth is not only bread, but bread with butter. Really, it’s the fat that does it by coating your mouth. Whole milk would work too (especially in a too-hot-for-my-mouth emergency), or other fatty things, but the most appetizing to eat with spicy food is probably buttered bread.
Keep up the great show! It’s one of the best for sure.
I thought the idea of placing an ANY key on a remote was a great idea. It takes the guess work right out of it, and you’re right, it does ease the strain on tech support.
Hi Father Roderick
I’ve been listening to you all summer trying to catch up with DB and CI. I’m just listening to this one DB#133 and your comment about the crowded Atlanta airport makes me chuckle. I’ve lived in the South all my life. There’s an old saying about air flights in this part of the US: “If you want to get to heaven, you have to go through Atlanta.” In those days, the only airline hub was in Atlanta and every flight DID go through Atlanta first.
Thanks for the podcasts. I love them. I just hope I can catch up!