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About The Site
about the site, its developments, and its changes over time
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This site originated when I got interested in FreeBSD in the summer of 1997. It was a FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE
install on a 486 DX/33. The site started off as 4 tutorials in perhaps June 1998, almost a year after my
introduction to FreeBSD.
Then came along a redesign in August 1998. The site then was still running off the Zenith cable modem in
my bedroom closet. I updated the site rather frequently then, adding some new tutorials here and there. In
October of 1998, we were 'upgraded' to Samsung Inforanger DOCSIS cable modems capped at 2mbits/s downstream
and only 128kbits/s upstream. A pretty sad upgrade considering my upstream went from 500kbits/s to
128kbits/s. Coupled with this upgrade were many, many problems with the cable feed.
January 2000 rolled along, and the old 486 had no trouble at all with Y2K. I didn't come home after a
New Years party to find a computer fire in my closet or something wild and wacky like that.
About 1 week into January 2000, I was offered a new (relatively speaking) computer to replace the server.
This was a Pentium 100 with 16MB of RAM and a 1.2 gigabyte hard drive. A big upgrade from the 486 DX/33 with
16MB of RAM and two 210 megabyte hard drives. I retired the 486 shortly after receiving this newer computer,
and was much happier with the improved speed. I later upgraded the RAM to 64MB in that computer, and added a
15 gigabyte disk. That's still the way it sits today, apart from the fact that I finally moved it out of my
closet.
Now, more than three years after the last redesign, i'm doing it again, and hoping to make it easier for me
to update. With a bit of luck i'll be a bit more motivated because it won't be such an effort to add tutorials
and the like to the site. That's what databases and server side scripting will do for you. Thanks to
PHP and
mySQL, you should all get a more useful site.
This May, 2005, I've upgraded my FreeBSD server at home. It is now a Pentium 4 1.6 GHz with lots of RAM and lots of
disk space! It is currently running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE.
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