April 6, 2008: Finishing That 70s Show

Dominica was up long before me today and hard at work on her backlog of GPS and the New Geography homework. It isn’t very often that she is up significantly before I am and especially not on the weekends. I have a bit of a migraine today so I am spending the morning relaxing and …

Ignite Realtime Spark IM Can’t Open Web Links in Linux

In the latest version of the Java based Jabber/XMPP Instant Messaging client Spark by Ignite Realtime / Jive Software (Spark 2.5.8) there is a “bug” that keeps Spark from being able to open hyperlinks properly. According to AGomez in the Spark discussion group the client is hardcoded to point to Netscape which is, of course, …

Linux Processor Ignored

WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Processor ignored. Not exactly the error message that you were hoping to see when you were checking you dmesg logs.  Don’t panic, this is easily remedied.  If you are wondering how to check your own Linux system for this error you can look by using this command: dmesg | …