Goal: to use nntp//rss as an RSS aggregator, using either Blackdown JDK/JRE 1.4.1 or Sun SDK/JRE 1.4.2. The main problem here comes in running the actual NNTP server. Normal users do not have access to the ports in use by the app. My initial thought was to create a ...

Attempting to install Maple 8 has left me frustrated beyond belief. The GUI installation proceeds smoothly, accepts the Rose-Hulman FLEXlm server, and says it completes successfully. However, there are no files place in the installation directory other than those in the "bin" directory (shell scripts that point to ...

In setting up the Samba Client, you need to emerge samba. That will install the server, which isn't needed for just browsing and mounting remote shares, but it will also install the client apps, which are needed. In addition, make sure smbfs is either compiled into your kernel ...

In order to setup XFree 4.3, I made sure to execute the command "VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge xfree-drm" to install support for the Radeon card in the laptop, then I emerge'd XFree. Then I read a novel. And started another one. In configuring XFree, I used the configuration file at henrik.org ...