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General Jun 30, 2008 1 min read

Asparagus Agriculture Possible On Mars

According to NASA scientists, preliminary analysis of the red planet by the Phonex Mars Lander mission, the soil is much more alkaline than expected. "We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the...

General Jun 27, 2008 1 min read

Google Launches New Media Server

Google just announced its odd Google Media Server, a Windows app that finds photos, music, and video and makes it available to DLNA devices like the PlayStation 3, XBox 360, and most Media Center PCs. Google Media...

General Jun 26, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest June 26th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: What image format was developed due to the extensive Usenet collaboration? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City,...

General Jun 26, 2008 1 min read

A Great Goodbye to Gates

Who would have thought that back in the 1970s a bunch of geeks from New Mexico would be the tech behemoth that it has become today. Microsoft, as however you think of them, set the standard for operating systems in PCs...

General Jun 23, 2008 1 min read

Comedian George Carlin Passes Away At Age 71

7 Censored words that have been and continue to be taboo on broadcast television to this day, that normally wouldn't even be discussed, was exactly what Carlin focused on for the first time in 1972. Since then, "Seven...

General Jun 22, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon Discounts Usenet for Time Warner, Verizon, Sprint

Newsdemon welcomes the Time Warner, Spring, and Verizon Usenet refugees with open arms! We will give a lifetime 15% discount to all incoming Time Warner, Sprint, and Verizon customers. Simply input the couponcode...

General Jun 20, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon Newsgroups Usenet Trivia - June 20th

Today’s Question: A bit of a tough one today: The Network News Transfer Protocol allows traffic generated by Usenet to be natively routed over TCP/IP. This was not always the case. What Year was this protocol released?...

General Jun 17, 2008 1 min read

Firefox 3 Release

As you may or may not know, Mozilla releases the official Firefox 3 browser. Firefox has high hopes that its users will surpass the record for the most amount of downloads in one day of all time. Either way, if you...

General Jun 15, 2008 1 min read

Seriously Connected

You thought gas prices were getting high? Denon, a manufacturer of mostly entertainment system devices, have a high end solution to keeping you connected. The AK-DL1 Ethernet Cable is supposedly designed to connect to...

General Jun 10, 2008 1 min read

N.Y. Attorney General forces ISPs to curb Usenet access

Three major internet service providers have all agreed to block customer access to newsgroups, according to the agreement that was announced yesterday by the New York attorney general's office. Verizon, Sprint and Time...

General Jun 06, 2008 1 min read

Time Warner Cable drops Usenet

According to DSLReports.com, Time Warner cable has decided to discontinue providing usenet access as part of their included services for customers....

General Jun 03, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon has added more support for Mac

We have had a few customers request a tutorial on how to setup a newsreader on their Mac. Here are two pages we created to help: Newsdemon Hogwasher setup: https://newsdemon.com/hogwasher.php Newsdemon Unison setup:...

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