About seven years ago, I wrote my first article for Dæmon News about my experiences of installing FreeBSD on a Compaq iPaq desktop which would become my web and mail server for about six years.

About a month ago, I purchased a pre-owned HP dc7700 Small Form Factor desktop with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 1.86GHz, 2GB of RAM and came with an 80GB SATA-II hard drive. I decided to purchase a new hard drive, a Seagate Barracuda ES 250GB SATA-II hard drive and keep the 80GB drive untouched. Since the system had quite a bit of processing power and resources, I decided to not only replace my aging web and mail server, but also to consolidate internal network services on to the new system.

Starting in mid-2000, I became involved in the Dæmon News community by posting BSD-related news items, which progressed to writing articles on my experiences with BSD operating systems and writing book reviews. By the autumn of 2003, I got a bad case of writer's block and stopped writing articles and doing book reviews.

Below are the articles that I wrote for Dæmon News, which have since been cleaned up and made XHTML 1.0 compliant. Due to several changes made to Dæmon News over the past several years, the published articles are no longer available on their website.

Since then, I have found other ways to contribute to the BSD community by maintaining several FreeBSD ports and submitting bug reports here and there.

• Setting up FreeBSD on an iPaq (August 2000)
• Review: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide (March 2001)
• Remote Administration with Webmin (May 2001)
• Book Review: FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System for your Personal Computer, First Edition (September 2001)
• HOWTO - Backing up a Windows Machine from FreeBSD (October 2001)
• Book Review: FreeBSD Unleashed (January 2002)
• Book Review: The DOSSIER Series (March 2002)
• HOWTO - Limiting Access to TCP-Wrapped Services With hosts.allow (June 2002)
• Communicating With Users using ntalkd and ytalk (June 2002)
• HOWTO - Setting Up ISC-DHCP 3.x Under FreeBSD (July 2002)
• Book Review: Programming PHP (July 2002)
• Book Review: Absolute BSD (October 2002)
• Backing Up FreeBSD using tar (December 2002 – Dæmon News Print Magazine)
• Book Review: Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition (January 2003)
• Book Review: Essential System Administration Pocket Reference (January 2003)
• Replacing FreeBSD Base System's BIND with BIND 9 (March 2003)
• Book Review: FreeBSD: The Complete Reference (June 2003)
• O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2003 Coverage (August 2003)