{"id":825,"date":"2005-11-20T20:13:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T00:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=825"},"modified":"2005-11-20T20:16:33","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T00:16:33","slug":"usenet-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Usenet (and other things)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=821\">noticed<\/a> that a Canadian ISP will stop serving UseNet to its customers. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globetechnology.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051117.gtjkcolumnnov17\/BNStory\/Technology\/\">Globe&#8217;s Kapica noticed<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">I recall one incident, in which a bunch of high-spirited kids decided to invade another newsgroup as a prank. The prank effectively destroyed the target group.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Me_too\">me too<\/a>. I&#8217;m not yet sure about UseNet&#8217;s demise: the programming groups are still frequently sought out. Google nowadays crawls the groups (instead of Deja, back in the days). And naturally, Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/netscan.research.microsoft.com\/\">Netstat<\/a> still hands out statistics for the interested (personally, the name netstat is a huge mistake).\n<\/p>\n<p>On the world wide web, Shelley&#8217;s notes on her Gmail account <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/2005\/11\/20\/ps\/\">attracted attention<\/a>: The silence around the security issue is (indeed) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;tab=wn&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=gmail&#038;btnG=Search+News\">deafening<\/a>.  I noticed Gmail having several issues last week ranging from &#8216;miscounting&#8217; unread mail in the Inbox to not being able to check mail.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hey: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\">Xbox 360<\/a> is supposed to be coming out next Tuesday. Prices are set too. Zellers offers two versions: The premium edition goes for 499,-. The &#8216;Core edition&#8217; goes for 399.  Xbox to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1895,1884539,00.asp\">rescue<\/a>? Not in our budget this year.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\".\/wp-content\/rackspacevshumans.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-rackspacevshumans.jpg' alt='ra_ck_spac_human' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Going to Slashdot just a couple of seconds ago, I noticed some similarities between the International Humanists Organization logo and the last Rackspace advertisement. Can you tell the difference?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, I noticed that a Canadian ISP will stop serving UseNet to its customers. The Globe&#8217;s Kapica noticed: I recall one incident, in which a bunch of high-spirited kids decided to invade another newsgroup as a prank. The prank effectively &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}