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Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Trillionaires Of Mars
Thoughts from Devon Eriksen.
This Seems Like Sort Of A BFD
Huge decision holding that CEQ never had authority to issue the National Environmental Policy Act regulations that have been used for nearly half a century https://t.co/8Jn5TF4kT5 pic.twitter.com/KRn0ZDIbIS
— James Coleman (@EnergyLawProf) November 12, 2024
If SCOTUS upholds this, it can only be fixed with legislation. I expect SpaceX (and other people who want to build things) to go pedal to the metal now.
Expending The Expendables
The launch industry is seeing the light (and in China as well). The biggest expendable we should expend is SLS.
New Software Problem
When I rebooted my computer into Fedora this morning, it’s not talking to my right monitor. I don’t think it’s a hardware issue, because the BIOS sees both monitors, but when it boots, the monitor says it’s not getting a signal. When I go into settings to look at the display(s), the OS thinks that it only has one monitor. Any ideas?
[Afternoon update]
Apparently it was due to a kernel update. I backed up to the previous kernel and it seems to be working now.
[November 4th update]
Well, I’ve updated kernels several times, and this weekend I upgraded from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41. The problem persists. The OS is clearly having trouble seeing the second monitor. Do I need to replace the video card? How should I diagnose this?
[Bumped]
[Veterans’ Day update]
Well, I got no response from the Fedora Forum. This is what I get when I ixni:
inxi -Fzx
System:
Kernel: 6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.43.1-2.fc41
Console: pty pts/0 Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: X570-A PRO (MS-7C37) v: 3.0
serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: H.K0 date: 04/27/2023
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3596 min/max: 550/4208 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3596
2: 3596 3: 3596 4: 3596 5: 3596 6: 3596 7: 3596 8: 3596 9: 3596 10: 3596
11: 3596 12: 3596 bogomips: 86403
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450
/ R5 230 OEM] vendor: XFX Pine driver: radeon v: kernel arch: TeraScale-2
bus-ID: 2e:00.0 temp: 62.0 C
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600
gpu: radeon resolution: 1920×1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.6 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
renderer: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 LLVM 19.1.0)
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check –recommends.
Audio:
Device-1: C-Media CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio driver: snd_cmipci v: kernel
bus-ID: 2a:00.0
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD
6450 / 7450/8450/8490 OEM R5 230/235/235X OEM] vendor: XFX Pine
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2e:00.1
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 30:00.4
API: ALSA v: k6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: off
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000
bus-ID: 27:00.0
IF: enp39s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.05 TiB used: 1.08 TiB (52.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Patriot model: Viper M.2 VPN100
size: 238.47 GiB temp: 27.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZAZ-00L9GB0
size: 1.82 TiB temp: 31 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 231.3 GiB used: 38.79 GiB (16.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 515.7 MiB (53.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 1.79 TiB used: 1.04 TiB (58.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 62.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.26 GiB used: 21.5 GiB (68.8%)
Processes: 479 Uptime: 5h 22m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
Packages: 16 note: see –rpm Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32
inxi: 3.3.36
I’ve seen some people say that they solved the problem by upgrading Nvidia drivers, but would that work for a Radeon? Or should I upgrade Radeon drivers? Which one?
On The ITAR Lawfare Against SpaceX
Trent Telenko has the goods:
https://x.com/TrentTelenko/status/1855399210989834467The Space Policy Stakes
I think that Greg has it right:
1/8 The Most Important Day in Human History
— Greg Autry🚀 (@GregWAutry) November 4, 2024
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 will be a pivotal day in human history. Regardless of how intensely you may be focused on some economic or social issue, please consider that we are voting on something much bigger: the fate of humanity for…
It Begins
A “commercial” Chinese rocket company is copying Starship.
Seems appropriate, though, for a Chinese company to use chopsticks.
The Starliner Business Case
A discussion of potential buyers.
Safety At NASA
Phil McAlister recalls an event from a decade ago. This was about the time that I published the book (hard to believe it’s been that long).
I’m not convinced that the ASAP contributes to safety in sufficient ratio to how it slows things down.