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  Samba - connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft  18 Oct 1998
swap files - how to get more swap space 1 Nov 1998
Samba - more on passwords/logon and shares 3 Nov 1998
Sharity-Light - connecting Microsoft to FreeBSD 3 Nov 1998
NTFS Driver for FreeBSD 8 Jan 1999
Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999
Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999
Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999
Mounting a SCSI CD-ROM 10 Jun 1999
Allowing anonymous FTP 10 Jun 1999
Filesystem is not clean - run fsck 20 Jun 1999
out of inodes 5 Jul 1999
vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999
rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999
Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999
symbolic links which are difficult to remove 18 Jan 2000
NFS - sharing file systems across a network 19 Feb 2000
Stripping ^M from your files 4 Mar 2000
drive to drive backup 8 May 2000
Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000
Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000
Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000
Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000
NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered 27 Jun 2000
Quotas - installation and configuration (by James) 23 Jul 2000
file system full 1 Sep 2000
mounting an ISO image 2 Sep 2000
Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000
uptime, w, and who show nobody logged in 2 Nov 2000
Setting up an encrypted file system (by Niklas Saers) 6 Jan 2001
Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001
Growing your filesystem with growfs (by Will Andrews) 19 Aug 2002
Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002
mknod - create the device, then mount 5 Jan 2004
What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? 29 Dec 2005
Card reader for FreeBSD 10 Apr 2006
Converting a system to RAID 7 Feb 2007
c partition goes away in FreeBSD 8 22 Nov 2009
ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010
ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010
ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011

  Why I wanted FreeBSD before I knew it existed 11 Feb 1998
How I found FreeBSD 11 May 1998
The installation 11 Jun 1998
upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998
a new hard drive 14 Aug 1998
Screen savers - and how to load stuff after changing rc.conf` 14 Oct 1998
Upgrading FreeBSD - installing a new version 7 Jan 1999
Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 14 Jan 1999
Before the disaster 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
User Friendly - a cartoon strip 24 Mar 1999
System tools - toys I have found - the z-tools 20 Nov 1999
FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000
BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000
USB Mouse support under 4.0 Release 20 Mar 2000
Directing mail to a program 20 Apr 2000
FreeBSD Virtual Memory 24 Apr 2000
Tips for Linux users (by Liz) 2 May 2000
New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000
FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000
FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE schedule 22 Feb 2001
FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 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

  improving security * 11 Aug 1998
su - how to become a super user.  avoid using root 18 Oct 1998
changing the pre-login text - also known as /etc/issue 6 Jan 1999
tcp wrapper - monitoring telnet requests, permit deny connections, etc. 9 Jan 1999
upgrading sendmail 11 Jan 1999
Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 14 Jan 1999
Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999
I was probed!  The security worked. 2 Feb 1999
Upgrading to sendmail 8.9.3 18 Feb 1999
nologin - Refuse a login to a user, and make a note of it in syslog 9 Mar 1999
telnet fails - tcp_wrapper is out of date 18 Mar 1999
ssh - much more secure than telnet 25 Apr 1999
Private DNS 8 Jul 1999
toor - and why you should keep it 23 Jul 1999
ssh2 - when ssh won't do 13 Aug 1999
Changing the pre-login text - also known as /etc/issue - more info 22 Aug 1999
Upgrade your DNS server - bind8 security issues 20 Nov 1999
watch - making it work 29 Nov 1999
Installing OpenSSH - less restrictive than ssh 5 Dec 1999
logcheck - who is checking your logs? 19 Dec 1999
identd problems - patch 19 Dec 1999
unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999
PortSentry - a port watcher 1 Jan 2000
Front Page Extensions - security considerations 7 Jan 2000
Blocking apache access by host 27 Jan 2000
Big Brother is watching you (and your network) 18 Feb 2000
finger and how to supply something different 24 Feb 2000
How to copy files around without anyone seeing them 27 Mar 2000
What version of bind are you running? 3 Apr 2000
ssh - authorized keys and chmod 5 Apr 2000
Keeping mysql passwords secure 19 Apr 2000
passphrases are your friend 6 Jul 2000
VLAN with pipsecd 7 Jul 2000
turning sendmail VRFY off 8 Aug 2000
mindterm - ssh connections via web browsers 14 Nov 2000
IPsec 27 Dec 2000
Setting up an encrypted file system (by Niklas Saers) 6 Jan 2001
installing bind8 from ports 28 Mar 2001
qpopper with APOP 30 Mar 2001
Using smtp from remote locations 7 Apr 2001
Setting up a FreeBSD IPSec Tunnel (by John J. Rushford Jr) 7 Jun 2001
San Jose bound... 11 Jun 2001
Client Authentication with SSL 12 Jul 2001
ssh exploit - how to avoid it 14 Nov 2001
stunnel - another way to avoid plain text passwords (by Mike Miller) 16 Nov 2001
Anonymous FTP server (by Kim Scarborough) 30 Nov 2001
PostgreSQL 7.2 upgrade and crypto 23 Feb 2002
stunnel - encryption and security 10 Mar 2002
Creating a VPN using PPTP 26 Apr 2002
scp tricks 7 Mar 2003
Using a jail as a virtual machine 1 Sep 2004
Secure Your Wireless with IPsec 6 Dec 2004
Configuring IPsec on your XP Professional laptop 22 Dec 2005
Putting sshd on a higher port 4 Dec 2006
Cacti remote injection exploit 12 Jan 2007
Bacula - Transport Layer Security (TLS) 23 Jan 2007
Fighting spam with pf 9 Jul 2007
Virus scanning 9 Jul 2007
Creating your own Certificate Authority 27 Nov 2008
Obscuring smtp auth headers 2 Dec 2008
Removing Firefox 2 19 Oct 2009
logcheck - a log file scanner 29 Nov 2009
cssh - cluster ssh 26 Jan 2010