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Advocacy
	BSD Advocacy in a Linux-centric Environment (by Lou Rinaldi) 30 May 1999 FreeBSDCon'99 - what happened there? 29 Oct 1999 Putting the Daemon into Windows 25 Jan 2000 FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 FreeBSD Virtual Memory 24 Apr 2000 Have you seen FreshPorts yet? 14 May 2000 FreshPorts goes offline 5 Jul 2000 newbie learning experience 7 Aug 2000 So you like FreeBSD? 14 Sep 2000 hardware donations please 25 Sep 2000 FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE 26 Sep 2000 Do you have any pets? 29 Sep 2000 hardware donations - an update 30 Sep 2000 Is the Diary or FreshPorts useful to you? 3 Oct 2000 Contributions 12 Nov 2000 Helping others 5 Dec 2000 Which BSD site is sending out spam? 28 Feb 2001 BSDSearch spam followup 2 Mar 2001 News feeds 1 Aug 2001 My first Linux User Group meeting 2 Nov 2001 There is room to improve 8 Apr 2002 Tell your story, help others 7 Jan 2003 Amazon, OSW, and my thanks 21 Jan 2003 Open Source Weekend - conference report 28 Jan 2003 FreeBSD/NetBSD to merge 1 Apr 2003 Someone tried to defraud FreshPorts users 5 Dec 2003


Conventions
	FreeBSDCon'99 - what happened there? 29 Oct 1999 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 - the arrival 15 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Monday 16 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Tuesday 17 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Wednesday 18 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Thursday 19 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Friday 20 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - the wrap up 22 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - the trip home 8 Nov 2000 San Jose bound... 11 Jun 2001 Open Source Weekend - conference report 28 Jan 2003 Linux World Expo 2004 - Part 1 16 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - my schedule 19 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - The drive to NYC 21 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - Day 1 22 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - Day 2 23 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - Day 3 24 Jan 2004 BSDCan - my photos 25 May 2004 USENIX'04 ATC 23 Jun 2004 BSDCan 2005 - are you going? 12 Apr 2005 NYCBSDCon 2005 23 Aug 2005 New York City BSD Conference 11 Sep 2005


FreeBSD
	Why I wanted FreeBSD before I knew it existed 11 Feb 1998 How I found FreeBSD 11 May 1998 The installation 11 Jun 1998 upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 a new hard drive 14 Aug 1998 Screen savers - and how to load stuff after changing rc.conf` 14 Oct 1998 Upgrading FreeBSD - installing a new version 7 Jan 1999 Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 14 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999 Restarting cvsup 29 Jan 1999 Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site has been completed. 14 Feb 1999 User Friendly - a cartoon strip 24 Mar 1999 System tools - toys I have found - the z-tools 20 Nov 1999 FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 USB Mouse support under 4.0 Release 20 Mar 2000 Directing mail to a program 20 Apr 2000 FreeBSD Virtual Memory 24 Apr 2000 Tips for Linux users (by Liz) 2 May 2000 New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000 FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000 FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000 FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE schedule 22 Feb 2001 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005 PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007


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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