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  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

  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