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Technical Journal

This journal documents some of the technical problems I've faced in implementing Linux and FreeBSD systems over the years. The older material is taken from notes, supplemented by my imperfect memory in some cases.

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--2010--
16 Jun, 2010	Crimson Motherboard Death
09 May, 2010	Getting Wake On Lan (WOL) working
11 Apr, 2010	Dealing with Unicode in filenames
04 Feb, 2010	FreeBSD partition resizing required
02 Jan, 2010	New Year, New Hard Drives
--2009--
28 Dec, 2009	My First Little Macbook
29 Oct, 2009	Another PC Fatality
10 Jun, 2009	Too many sound cards
02 May, 2009	Crimson is dead; long live Crimson
29 Mar, 2009	Booting linux in single-user mode
01 Mar, 2009	The hydrus standard Debian install
28 Feb, 2009	Upgrading to FreeBSD 7.1
27 Feb, 2009	Upgrading to Debian Lenny
--2008--
26 Oct, 2008	Inaccessible Windows Workgroup
13 Aug, 2008	Windows IDE controller drops into PIO mode
02 May, 2008	Netgear MA401 Wireless Drivers on Debian
27 Apr, 2008	Creating FreeBSD packages from ports
16 Apr, 2008	Secure SMTP and POP access on FreeBSD
20 Mar, 2008	Using iptables on Debian Linux
14 Mar, 2008	Installing FreeBSD 7.0 on a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61p
02 Mar, 2008	Sendmail configuration to support rDNS change
09 Feb, 2008	Building a Shoutcast Server
29 Jan, 2008	Upgrading packages for FreeBSD 6.3
--2007--
20 Nov, 2007	Installing Debian Etch on a Thinkpad Z61p
09 Nov, 2007	Symbolic links on Windows
04 Nov, 2007	Building man pages with Docbook
13 Oct, 2007	Hi-jack! Take this domain name to Spain
04 Jun, 2007	Working through a Microsoft Proxy Server
26 May, 2007	Virtual Terminal problem with XOrg 7.2 on FreeBSD
19 May, 2007	NFS from an unreliable server
29 Apr, 2007	Upgrading Debian sarge to etch
27 Apr, 2007	Weird Scenes inside the Local Area Network
26 Feb, 2007	Gray Listing with Sendmail
15 Feb, 2007	SMTP client authentication for Sendmail
08 Feb, 2007	Building FreeBSD for multiple machines
--2006--
29 Oct, 2006	Crimson's Near Death Experience
17 Aug, 2006	Xorg nv driver problems after etch upgrade
22 Jul, 2006	FreeBSD iwi support in 6-STABLE
23 Jun, 2006	Automatic Removal of Attachments in Outlook Folders
14 Jun, 2006	Tracking spam
10 Apr, 2006	Installing FreeBSD on a Toshiba Portege P3500
02 Apr, 2006	Dual booting, dynamic DNS and DHCP
02 Apr, 2006	Dual booting and Daylight Saving Time (reprise)
17 Mar, 2006	Installing Rails on Solaris 9
14 Mar, 2006	Configuring DNS and a DHCP server
04 Mar, 2006	CVS and a bad memory
26 Feb, 2006	Debian apt-get - no public key?
23 Feb, 2006	X problems across OpenSSH
02 Jan, 2006	Upgrading FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0
--2005--
30 Dec, 2005	Google - Where did my pages go?
28 Oct, 2005	Yet another FreeBSD 4.x to 5.x upgrade
02 Oct, 2005	Improved Web Publishing
22 Sep, 2005	Website Validation
22 Sep, 2005	Docbook and XHTML
09 Aug, 2005	Upgrading Debian Stable to Sarge
18 Jun, 2005	SSH and DNS
07 Jun, 2005	Sound problems with Windows 2000
12 Mar, 2005	Modifying the FreeBSD base system sendmail
10 Mar, 2005	Upgrading to FreeBSD 5.3
19 Jan, 2005	Deleting spam from a POP3 server
01 Jan, 2005	Ugly fonts in X
01 Jan, 2005	Netgear FA331 on Debian Linux
--2004--
31 Oct, 2004	Portupgrade for binary upgrades on FreeBSD
10 Oct, 2004	UNIX printing to a CUPS server
17 Jul, 2004	Dual booting and Daylight Saving Time
17 Jul, 2004	Thumbnail production with the Gimp
15 Jun, 2004	Web Publishing using make
07 Jun, 2004	J2SE on Debian
03 Jun, 2004	Docbook Stylesheets
12 Apr, 2004	Re-configuring Sendmail
10 Apr, 2004	Duplicate FreeBSD Server
02 Apr, 2004	Configuring Exim
02 Apr, 2004	Server Backup and Disaster Recovery
15 Mar, 2004	Validating XHTML
24 Jan, 2004	Mozilla and TrueType fonts on FreeBSD
06 Jan, 2004	Moving from Redhat 7.3 to Debian
--2003--
07 Dec, 2003	Upgrading Debian from stable to testing
27 Nov, 2003	Another Debian Install
08 Nov, 2003	Installing Debian
24 Oct, 2003	Handling Spam
08 Oct, 2003	Rotating Apache Log Files
28 Sep, 2003	DHCP and a wireless card (reprise)
28 Sep, 2003	Upgrading FreeBSD via cvsup
21 Sep, 2003	Keeping FreeBSD ports updated
21 Sep, 2003	Disk Error Diagnosis
03 Sep, 2003	Swapping hard drive boot disks between machines
14 May, 2003	Java on FreeBSD
01 May, 2003	FreeBSD on a Thinkpad
14 Apr, 2003	SSH and X forwarding on FreeBSD
13 Apr, 2003	XML for documentation
09 Apr, 2003	DHCP and a wireless PCMCIA card
03 Apr, 2003	Adding a CD recorder to Linux
27 Mar, 2003	Sendmail Saga [V] Loose Ends
27 Mar, 2003	Sendmail Saga [IV] DHCP and resolv.conf
27 Mar, 2003	Sendmail Saga [III] Meddling
27 Mar, 2003	Sendmail Saga [II] Sendmail Configuration
27 Mar, 2003	Sendmail Saga [I] Building the Server
27 Mar, 2003	The Sendmail Saga [Intro]
--2002--
01 Dec, 2002	X Mouse Acceleration settings
21 Oct, 2002	Installing Grub
15 Oct, 2002	FreeBSD - Post Installation Tweaks
14 Oct, 2002	Installing FreeBSD on a Laptop
21 Sep, 2002	Installing FreeBSD
22 Jun, 2002	Linux printing to Windows printer
31 Mar, 2002	Going broadband
--2001--
31 Jul, 2001	First Linux defect encountered
10 May, 2001	Upgrading to Redhat 7.1
--1999--
05 Sep, 1999	Fun with X
04 Sep, 1999	Enlarging the disk space
21 Aug, 1999	Going LAN
14 Aug, 1999	Initial Linux install
12 Aug, 1999	Linux test platform