I’m actually working on this trip — in Torrance this morning, have to drive down to Seal Beach for lunch with an old Rockwell (now Boeing) colleague, then back up to El Segundo for a two o’clock meeting, then to Burbank this evening for Whittle’s half-century birthday. He didn’t look a day over forty-nine to me last night.
Then an early morning flight back to Florida in the morning, so probably not much new until Thursday. For those who read the New York Times, though, I may have some thoughts on North Korea there this afternoon. With a bonus picture.
I got into LA about 5 PM, and American managed to not lose my luggage this time. Henry Vanderbilt called me while I was grabbing some stuff at Trader Joe’s for dinner, and apparently I’m now scheduled to be a speaker tomorrow, if I can drive over to Phoenix in the morning sans incident. And think of something non-useless to say.
Actually, if Henry is reading this and wants to update the program, I’m going to talk about one of the most misunderstood and ignored (at least by the main aerospace establishment) topics that have kept us stuck on the planet — marginal costs.
I’m getting ready to head out to LA, and then Phoenix for Space Access, so I may not be posting much today. Or tomorrow, when I’ll actually be traveling.
I’ve been slowly bringing my Fedora Core 9 box up to full utility, and had a major breakthrough today, in that I finally got flash/shockwave running in Firefox. The problem now? No sound.
When I go System/Preference/Hardware/Volume Control, I get the message: “No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.”
I’ve checked, and Gstreamer and Gstreamer-plugins-good are installed. I tried G*-plugins-bad and ugly, but they weren’t to be found in the repository (is this a 64-bit problem?). Anyway, anyone have any idea what the problem might be? Is there some command line to detect the sound card (it’s built into the board)?
One of my consulting clients is very Windows centric, and I thought it was going to be a problem when my Windows desktop died a few weeks ago. Though, actually, I could never access either their Sharepoint or Exchange servers even when it was up, because there was some software on it that was incompatible with Juniper, so the only way I could get in was with my Vista laptop. Well, just for the hell of it, I tried to access both sites today using Firefox in Fedora, and it seems to be fully functional, so it gets along better with my client’s server than my Windows 2000 machine did.
This is interesting on two levels: first, that the security system didn’t complain, and second, that Linux Firefox seems to play well with Microsoft sites. It’s come a long way, baby.