While waiting for a late night meeting to start a bunch of us watched the spacex launch of their Falcon 1 rocket. It was pretty neat, watching it live on the Intertron. But it wasn’t the fact that it was launching that was neat, it was the fact that all I did was click on the windows media link on the site, totem launched and things just worked. I didn’t have to fiddle, and I didn’t have install anything weird.
I have the plugins from Fluendo installed for windows media on Fedora Core 6. (Finally, a legal, if immoral solution.) We should have this nice level of integration out of the box using the codec buddy with the upcoming Fedora 7 and people using it will be in for a nice surprise.
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I watched the highres video last night — quite an amazing video! There have been some similar “RocketCams” from the Shuttle and EELVs, but this is the first one I’ve seen that shows the actual staging. [As well as showing the 2nd stage engine bell apparently banging the side of the first stage as it dropped away... Oops!]