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	Time for a break 18 Nov 1998 Why the ads? 21 Jan 1999 New look introduced 15 Feb 1999 New look finished 20 Feb 1999 the box is down 1 Mar 1999 the box is up 3 Mar 1999 Who is this guy? 25 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 The Diary takes a holiday 29 Jul 1999 Service outage - my apologies 19 Aug 1999 The Diary takes a holiday (continued) 8 Sep 1999 Website changes coming soon 24 Dec 1999 The new websites - what's going on? 1 Jan 2000 Not much new here. What's going on? 14 Jan 2000 Welcome to the new website! 22 Jan 2000 A brief history about the site 22 Jan 2000 Site shutdown 1 Mar 2000 FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000 How to get the most out of the forum 9 Mar 2000 The Polls - oh no! how slashdottish.... 26 Mar 2000 Some Diary news feeds are behind the times 30 Mar 2000 My computers have been seized 1 Apr 2000 Are you good at graphics? 22 Apr 2000 "blank" pages 27 Apr 2000 The Diary Template 5 Jun 2000 FreeBSD Diary mailing list is now automated 9 Aug 2000 freebsddiary.cx domain no longer used for testing 10 Aug 2000 hardware donations please 25 Sep 2000 A backlog of mail 28 Sep 2000 hardware donations - an update 30 Sep 2000 Is the Diary or FreshPorts useful to you? 3 Oct 2000 I'm away at BSDCon 2000 7 Oct 2000 USA certainly doesn't make it easy 13 Oct 2000 Contributions 12 Nov 2000 What do you think are the top 10 articles? 28 Dec 2000 Diary update 1 Feb 2001 Job search 19 Feb 2001 The Linux Diary 1 Apr 2001 It's all true! 2 Apr 2001 Massive website changes 16 Apr 2001 latest changes ready for testing 18 Apr 2001 New website goes live 22 Apr 2001 It is time for a move.... 25 Apr 2001 The trip north 13 May 2001 New city, new LAN, new Laptop 19 May 2001 The Diary gets ready for colocation 30 Jun 2001 Upcoming changes 30 Jul 2001 News feeds 1 Aug 2001 Welcome to the new box 2 Aug 2001 View all article feedback 23 Aug 2001 Americans are not alone 16 Sep 2001 cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 21 Sep 2001 Pictures of the Ottawa machines 31 Dec 2001 New stuff coming soon 1 Apr 2002 Installing and configuring Phorum using cvs 22 Jul 2002 I'm looking for a job 25 Jul 2002 Amazon, OSW, and my thanks 21 Jan 2003 Oh what a week I've had! 7 Feb 2003 Donations sought for SATA drives 23 Jul 2006


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	All the ports - how to save time if you have the disk space 22 Aug 1998 Building a port - background info on make 4 Oct 1998 fetch - and how to use it behind a firewall 4 Jan 1999 Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999 Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999 What is installed? 6 Jun 1999 using make to upgrade your ports 19 Nov 1999 Installing a port without installing the ports 14 Jan 2000 When cvsup'ing your ports, remember the base distribution 20 Jan 2000 distfile sharing via anonymous FTP 25 Feb 2000 Have you seen FreshPorts yet? 14 May 2000 Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000 FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000 FreshPorts goes offline 5 Jul 2000 Keeping up with the ports - pkg_version 5 Aug 2000 Diary update 1 Feb 2001 installing bind8 from ports 28 Mar 2001 Specifying alternative port download sites 5 Jun 2001 Got ports? Here is THE way to upgrade them! 11 Dec 2001 pkgdb - packages database tool 28 Dec 2001 And one port to install them all! 14 Jan 2002 Removing Firefox 2 19 Oct 2009