Stopping Spam and Trojan Horses with BSD
by Brett Glass

A properly configured BSD mail server can protect users from spam and Trojan horses while rejecting virtually no legitimate content. This tutorial describes how to configure BSD systems to use DNS blacklists, procmail, mail "sanitizing" scripts, daemons that watch logs for evidence of spamming and "mail bombing," and similar... Read More

Using TrueType fonts with XFree86
by Murray Stokely

After all of the attention that my laptop received at BSDCon it became clear to me that many users are still putting up with the horrible default fonts in XFree86. I'm sure most of you have encountered some of the symptoms; completely unintelligible small fonts in Netscape, large presentation fonts that look jagged and unprofessional, etc. Fortunately, setting up your system to take advantage of more esthetically pleasing TrueType fonts is a 5 minute task. Read More

Ramblings About BSD on Mac OS X
by Matt Loschert and Jeffrey Carl

This is the first chapter in a series of observations, representing the adventures of a couple of BSD admins (one with a lot of prior MacOS experience, the other with more on the BSD side) poking around the command line on an iBook laptop running Apple's Mac OS X Public Beta. We'll attempt to provide a few notes and observations that may make a BSD admin's work with Mac OS X easier. Read More

Answerman - Hey! Mister Answer Man
by Todd Whitesel

Through cold season, and buggy motherboard chipsets, and unreliable superstore memory modules, your intrepid Answerman forges onward... Read More

Adventure: Upgrading FreeBSD
by James Wilde

We'd all like to think that upgrading a BSD OS is a piece of cake. For many, the task is relatively painless, and others, even getting a boot floppy to boot can turn into a major hassle. The author of this months Adventure series describes the issues he ran into while upgrading from FreeBSD 2.2.8 to FreeBSD 4.1. Read More

The Dæmon's Advocate
by Wes Peters

In my last column I wrote about universal presence and building a virtual home. When I sent the column to my regular reviewers, Greg Lehey responded ``Your vision of the future is ... only slightly in the future. I'd like to look even further forward, to where synchronization is automatic. Then you could talk about halfway steps like the ones you do. And don't underestimate the influence of wireless: I suspect that within a few years you won't put a PDA in a cradle any more.'' I reassured him that was my intention Read More