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Stories · 6

  1. Usenet With a 30 Year Lag

    Tech · Internet · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the deja-what-now dept. · 102 comments
    joey writes "The early A-News days of Usenet are being played out on olduse.net in realtime with a 30 year time delay. You can catch up on what rms and Postel are doing, Keep informed of the latest prices in disk drives ($75000 per gigabyte), and more. Available through a web-based teletype or NNTP. I plan to run the service for the next ten years, until 1991."

  2. Palm Pre Reports Your Location and Usage To Palm

    Yro · Privacy · · posted by Soulskill · from the caught-palm-red-handed dept. · 314 comments
    AceJohnny writes "Joey Hess found that his Palm Pre was ratting on him. It turns out the Pre periodically uploads detailed information about the user to Palm, including the names of installed apps, application usage (and crashes), as well as GPS coordinates. This, of course, is without user consent or control. The only way he found to disable the uploads was to modify system files."

  3. Binary Package Formats Compared

    Linux · Linux · · posted by michael · from the one-deb-to-bind-them dept. · 292 comments
    jjaimon writes "There is a document on different package formats used in Linux/Unix systems. Worth reading." Another reader sends in this guide to creating Debian packages which seems apropos here.

  4. WP8 Prerelease

    Corel · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the real-world-applications dept. · 0 comments
    Joey Hess wrote in to tell us that Corel has made a Pre Release of WP8 available for anyone who is interested. School's startin' up again in a few weeks. I actually need to start writing papers again. Maybe this semester I'll consider writing papers in something besides HTML... :)

  5. Debian 2.0 Beta IRC Party Tonight

    Linux · Debian · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the partying-in-the-public-interest dept. · 0 comments
    Joey Hess writes "Since Debian's "hamm" distribution will become "2.0 Beta" on 00:00 UTC June 24th, there will of course be an IRC party on irc.debian.org, channel #debian, at that time -- its 8 p.m EDT Tuesday."

  6. Does Your OS Suck or Rule?

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the somebody-coded-this-thing dept. · 0 comments
    I love the internet. Check out this page sent to us by Joey Hess. Basically it does a search of AltaVista for various OS's, and the word 'sucks' or 'rules'. Then it displays the totals. What a crazy idea, of course since this method shows Linux's obvious superiority, I support this method 100% *grin*.