Scott Alan Miller :: A Life Online
Linux is popular in big business today. No longer, and not for a long time now, has Linux been the purview of the geek community but it is a solid, core piece of today’s mainstream IT infrastructure. That being said, Linux is still plagued by confusion over its plethora of distributions. This being the case …
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Vote for Andy West’s OrbTrak satellite tracking web application in the Dice Tech Challenge. Dominica and I both slept in a bit this morning before getting up and doing a bunch of apartment cleaning that was very much over due. No one has been visiting us recently and we have been letting the apartment go …
Vote for OrbTrak! My morning started nice and early. I was online and working starting at a quarter until eight and had to keep working for the office until one thirty in the afternoon. Almost six hours of work first thing in the morning. Not the way that I pictured that I would be spending …
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 | …
In Linux the kscand process is a kernel process which is a key component of the virtual memory (vm) system. According to Unix Tech Tips & Tricks’ excellent Understanding Virtual Memory article “The kscand task periodically sweeps through all the pages in memory, taking note of the amount of time the page has been in …