The general rule of thumb when porting an open-source package is to keep track of the changes you make to get it to build and execute on your system, and if you think the changes would be useful to the community at large, to submit them to the maintainers of the package. Usually, this also [...]

Ever wonder how STCP knows what its name is? In the >system>stcp directory is a file called host. The file contains one line which is the name of the module. You can edit or display the file directly but I recommend that you use the hostname command. Without arguments it will display the contents of [...]

Don’t you just hate it when something breaks the build of your software?  Build problems create extra, unplanned work. They always seem to happen when you are rushing to solve some other problem. Often, the build breaks for some factor that is unrelated to anything you are doing at the moment. So it can be rather frustrating to [...]