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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

  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