Fetching Yahoo! Mail
by Mikel King

I thought it might be nice to start off with a simple little article about a simple app in the ports tree that I find perticularly useful. It is called fetchyahoo, basically what it does is fetch your email out of your mail.yahoo.com account via the http interface and download it into a mailbox. Of course that may not seem all that special or important, but what is really cool about this app is where it can put the messages, and some of the advanced features, like dump the bulk messages, and automatic expunging of the deleted messages. Read More

NYC*BUG Hosts Eric Allman and Marshall Kirk McKusick Meeting in Manhattan
by George Rosamond

NYC*BUG Hosts Eric Allman and Marshall Kirk McKusick Meeting in Manhattan

The NYC *BSD User Group held a special meeting on Saturday, October 16th with Eric Allman and Marshall Kirk McKusick speaking at Columbia University.

Eric Allman , the creator of Sendmail, has been a critical component in the open source community for decades. Kirk McKusick is an original BSD Unix developer from the 1970's, and continues to play a leading role in the FreeBSD project to this day. Both Eric and Kirk are also heavily involved in USENIX. Read More

Lowest Common Denominator
by David Bogen

In most contexts, titling something the "lowest common denominator" is faint praise, if not an outright insult. Most people consider the lowest common denominator in social groups to be those traits and urges most closely associated with our base instincts: food, shelter, warmth, safety, procreation, etc. Some examples that social and technology critics might offer: Read More

Why They use BSD: Netcraft
by George Rosamond

Recently, Daemon News asked Mike Prettejohn from well-known web server survey firm Netcraft.com about why they use BSD. Here's what Mike wrote: Read More

Daemon's Advocate
by Poul-Henning Kamp

I met Peter Salus the other evening, he was in Copenhagen for a talk and he invited me out because he has started writing yet a computer history book (If you have not yet read "A quarter century of UNIX" and "Casting the NET" by all means do so).

He told me that Kirk had told him to talk to me about FreeBSD, and his first question, while we waited for our "Galletes" to arive was "Why bother ?" Read More