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General Aug 18, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest August 18th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: What year did spamming become an issue on Usenet? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will...

General Aug 11, 2008 1 min read

Scientist One Step Closer to Disappearing

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, reporting that they were able to render a three-dimensional object completely invisible for the first time. Previously, scientists could only cloak super thin, 2D...

Entertainment Aug 11, 2008 1 min read

BlizzCon Tickets Go On Sale Today

BlizzCon tickets go on sale today. Blizzard Software, makers of such classics as Diablo, Starcraft and World of Warcraft is having there convention in Anaheim, California between October 10th-11th. Last year, the sold...

General Aug 07, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest August 7th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: When was the first mention of Microsoft made on Usenet? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country...

Entertainment Aug 07, 2008 1 min read

How Special Are You?

Working with multiple US databases of names, you can see how unique your first and last name is to the rest of the country with this free search from HowManyOfMe.com. Around the office here at Newsdemon.com, this...

Entertainment Aug 01, 2008 1 min read

Star Trek DJ Spock

Something fun for Friday, DJ Spock takes the Star Trek Turntables for a spin.

Newsdemon News Jul 31, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest July 31st, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: Today, we're going to do an anagram. Decipher the correct word using the following group of letters. First one to respond correctly receives a FREE MONTH of Newsdemon Newsgroups...

General Jul 30, 2008 1 min read

NetZero and Comcast Bow Down to Cuomo

Recently, we had commented on how Cuomo had been putting pressure on Comcast to join its other ISPs in complying with its request to remove specific groups from its Usenet groups. Today, both Comcast and NetZero have...

General Jul 30, 2008 1 min read

New Harry Potter Trailer Released

Today, the new Harry Potter trailer was released. Judging by the trailer Half Blood Prince will kick some serious tail and rightfully so as Dumbledore looks to be even angrier than in the last film.

General Jul 29, 2008 1 min read

Happy Birthday NASA

On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed National Air and Space Act, establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a civilian agency in response to the challenge of the Soviet launch of...

General Jul 28, 2008 1 min read

Former Google Employees Launch New Search Engine - Cuil

A group of former Google engineers Monday unveiled a new search engine they hope will challenge the Internet giant's supremacy. Cuil, (pronounced "cool"), takes a different tack than previous threats to Google. Instead...

General Jul 26, 2008 6 min read

Linux Commands for Usenet

Printed with permission, is a small tutorial on common commands for Linux users to work with Usenet files. How do I extract multiple-part Rar archives with Linux ? ( rar r00 r01 r02, etc ) With the unrar command line....

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