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  Installing FreeBSD on a Windows 95 machine 14 Mar 1999
Installing PPP 15 Mar 1999
Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999
Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999
Installing PPP - alias 24 Mar 1999
Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999
Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999
Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999
How to build a gateway 5 Jul 1999
Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999
FreeBSD on a laptop (by Chris Silva) 12 Jan 2000
Installing FreeBSD via PLIP - (the parallel port - good for laptops) 23 Feb 2000
Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000
Installing cvsup 6 May 2000
New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000
Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000
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
The make-world script 30 Jul 2000
Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000
Installing via wireless NIC 21 May 2001
Checklist for a new box 12 Jan 2002
Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002
Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005
PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007

  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

  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