I’ve been working on a piece for PJMedia on Mitt Romney’s (non) space policy, and a projection of what will be happening in space in 2012 for Popular Mechanics. Plus, I just got back from the dentist to get a tooth implant.
Category Archives: Administrative
Light And Scattered Blogging
We’re going up to Plane Crazy in Mojave, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the flight of the Voyager this week, and today’s 108th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight. I expect to see a lot of canards flying in for the event.
Too Busy Cooking To Blog
To all my American readers, have a happy and bountiful Thanksgiving.
Ethernet Wiring Bleg
What’s the chance that I have a bad RJ-45 jack? What’s the QC like on them? The one I’m using is similar to the one described here. I just put in a CAT-5e run, and can’t get it to work (about sixty-five feet). All the wires have continuity, and there don’t appear to be any shorts, but there’s no signal through the cable. Any ideas what the problem might be or how to troubleshoot?
Is There A Thunderbird Doctor In The House?
It keeps freezing up on me, to the point that I have to kill the process and restart. I switched from POPD to IMAP a month or so ago, but don’t know if that’s related to the problem. It’s very annoying, because it makes it hard to get mail.
Site Update
You might notice that I’ve added my Twitter feed on the right.
[Update a while later]
No, if it’s not working, I don’t know why. It was when I first installed it.
I’m Alive
I took the weekend off from blogging, because after having been back in the house for two years, we finally decided to paint the living room/dining room.
California Here I Come
OK, so after getting a speeding ticket a few blocks from the Frank Borman auto dealer last night, I’m driving my U-Haul special F-150 back down to El Paso (I may check with the local ATF office before I leave and see if they’d like me to deliver a few dozen government-funded machine guns to Juarez on the way, for a little extra income — I’ve got plenty of room in the bed, and I hear that they’re running low. Maybe some grenades, too. Maybe even MANPADS, if they’re on special this week).
Anyway, then on to LA this evening.
Unity Bleg
OK, so I’ve got this new GUI in Fedora 15 (haven’t played much with it yet, because it’s on my laptop, and haven’t been traveling). What does it mean when there is nothing on the screen except the time in the top center, and my name in the upper right corner with a lock icon? I can move the cursor around, but I can’t unlock it. The only way out I’ve found is to ctrl-function to a terminal, log in as root, and reboot. What am I missing here?
Travel Emergency
I’m flying into El Paso tomorrow afternoon for the ISPCS in Las Cruces, and I apparently didn’t reserve a car in time, because there are now none available. This is complicated by the fact that I’m not staying at the conference hotel, so I would also need a ride from where I’m staying to and from the Ranch Museum. Is anyone else getting in about that time (late afternoon) with a car who could at least get me to the Encanto?
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, there’s a shuttle for forty-five bucks (fifty if I don’t reserve today). So I guess that’s my fall-back.