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  1. Saving The UNIX HUMOR Legacy?

    Ask · Unix · · posted by Cliff · from the resurrecting-a-net.laugh dept. · 36 comments
    belbo asks: "To my utter dismay I've discovered that the great UNIX HUMOR archive has vanished from its rather obscure home at Geocities. UNIX HUMOR has been quite a vast archive of UNIX related humor from various decades (e.g. some -long- threads from a.r.s) It's not only been funny but has also been a great introduction into the UNIX way of thinking, laughing and solving problems. So, after much unsuccessful searching via Google and its cache, I want to ask the Slashdot community: does anyone run a mirror of this archive? Or has a tarball of it? I would love to host it on my server." Has this resource been moved to a new official site? If not, looks like you have one offer for a new home.

  2. Got the Munchies?

    Science · Science · · posted by michael · from the insert-subliminal-message-here dept. · 9 comments
    yoink! writes: "Yet another BBC story, run yesterday [April 12, 2001] indicates that scientists have discovered just why we need to munch after having toked. Apparently the chemical is used to try to stop weight loss; our brains, as with THC, have natural receptors for it Not that anyone actually smokes pot or anything, dude."

  3. Global Warming Studies Improve

    Science · Science · · posted by michael · from the baked-in-our-own-juices dept. · 12 comments
    yoink! writes: "The BBC news service is running a story which indicates that previous global warming predictions failed to take the oceans and their temperatures into consideration. Those involved with the studies, according to the article, articulate our [homo sapiens'] important role in helping to warm earth's climate. This could very well add fuel to the debate between natural, polution independant, warming cycles and humanity's destruction of our only home."

  4. Are BBS-Like Communities Dead?

    Ask · Internet · · posted by Cliff · from the as-the-electronic-frontier-evolves dept. · 335 comments
    Fr05t asks: "Since the day the Internet became popular and the good old BBS's faded into the back ground, I myself have had a hard time finding the same kind of active community. Sure there's Slashdot, BugTraq, and IRC, but for whatever reason it seems people remain private and keep to themselves without a who's online option, and a message feature. I do see other Slashdot members posting often, but there are allot more people that read the articles and have opinions that remain in the background. I guess my question is if anyone has found the same kind of thing as the old BBS's?" (More)

    I remember back in the 80's when I spent most of my waking hours after school in front of the monitor hooping from one BBS to another. I figure most of the BBSes have evolved in some way, shape or form and made the jump to the Internet. A few of them have evolved into Web Boards, which just don't have that same feel.

    When I speak of "that BBS feel", I mean having the ability to go through different sections of the system, actually browsing the messages left by others in a free-forum (as opposed to moderated forums like Slashdot), actively seeing who was on the system at the time (the afore mentioned "who" command), the ubiquitous file transfer areas (which, for the most part have been surplanted by your mega-FTP sites like WcArchive and Freshmeat and others of their ilk). And door games....anyone remember door-games? (I'm still waiting for an online version of TradeWars for the Internet...)

    Of course, my free time online has dropped dramatically due to my day-job and Slashdot, so I don't have the time to search for such online communities anymore. If anyone cares to make recommendations to any IBBS systems that may still exist, please feel free.

  5. DNA Strands as Semiconductors

    Science · Science · · posted by Hemos · from the conjunction-junction dept. · 42 comments
    Dyslexic writes "ABCNews is reporting that strands of DNA can act like semiconductors. After seeing "The Matrix" this makes me only fear the future." The research is coming from two researchers in Basel, Switzerland. Essentially, this research is saying that while DNA makes a good semiconductor, it does not conduct as well as, say, copper. It's real usefulness comes from the fact that "...he knows of no metallic wires that can be made as small or as regular as DNA strands. A strand is 2 billionths of a meter thick, or one-forty-four-thousandths of the diameter of a medium-size human hair ". Uber-thin. I like it.