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	CD-ROM saga (a funny story) 9 Jul 1998 notes on rebooting and IP numbers 28 Jul 1998 mounting fd0 without a floppy gives a GPF 29 Jul 1998 installing DES - encryption 2 Aug 1998 nmap - the port scanner 10 Aug 1998 dhclient.conf - moving a file to the web server. changing owners (chown) 16 Oct 1998 "There are stopped jobs" - what does this message mean? 9 Nov 1998 distributed.net - the fastest computer on earth 4 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Why the ads? 21 Jan 1999 Join the FreeBSD Diary mailing list 6 Feb 1999 Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site has been completed. 14 Feb 1999 New look introduced 15 Feb 1999 Responses from readers 21 Feb 1999 changing your default editor 4 Mar 1999 Links to FreeBSD Handbook may be broken 4 Apr 1999 Links should be OK now 7 Apr 1999 Get your stuff published here 9 Apr 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Diary is now reversed 18 Jul 1999 The Diary takes a holiday 29 Jul 1999 Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999 The Diary takes a holiday (continued) 8 Sep 1999 periodic - using it to run shell scripts 9 Nov 1999 how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999 Website changes coming soon 24 Dec 1999 The new websites - what's going on? 1 Jan 2000 Happy New Year - Y2K 1 Jan 2000 Reader Forum 1 Jan 2000 Stripping ^M from your files 4 Mar 2000 The Hauppauge TV Card (by Chris Silva) 5 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 USB Mouse support under 4.0 Release 20 Mar 2000 man pages - they are searchable 28 Mar 2000 Epson PhotoPC 650 (by Chris Silva) 23 Apr 2000 cvs - create your own repository 25 Apr 2000 The dual XEON box takes shape 7 Nov 2000 NIC blows up 10 Feb 2001 Customizing Console Fonts 27 Mar 2001 IRC Hints 28 Mar 2001 My travels with a computer 6 Apr 2001 Make the keyboard work on a headless server (read also about t-shirts!) 17 Dec 2001 Changing your keyboard mapping 20 Sep 2002


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	upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999 mergemaster - a great tool when upgrading 4 Mar 1999 /etc/rc.conf changes for 3.1 6 Mar 1999 Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999 Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Kernel Configuration Options 16 May 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999 Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999 What is installed? 6 Jun 1999 Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999 how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999 Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999 proftpd and FreeBSD 7 Dec 1999 unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005