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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


cvsup
	Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 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 Installing cvsupd 6 Aug 1999 When cvsup'ing your ports, remember the base distribution 20 Jan 2000 How to refuse stuff using cvsup 28 Jan 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000 How long does it take to upgrade via cvsup? 15 Aug 2000 Creating your own cvsupd server 17 Dec 2000 cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 21 Sep 2001 ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! 16 Feb 2002 stunnel - encryption and security 10 Mar 2002


Upgrades
	upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999 Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999 Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999 Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999 Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999 Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999 Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000 installing FreeBSD 4.0-Release 6 May 2000 FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000 4.1-STABLE - fetch now going just fine 2 Aug 2000 How long does it take to upgrade via cvsup? 15 Aug 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 21 Sep 2001 ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! 16 Feb 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005 mailwrapper exited on signal 11 30 Nov 2009 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010