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| What is OMNI? |
OMNI is a community that was formed by Dayzero on a forum called OMNI. |
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| What are newsgroups? |
Newsgroups, also called Usenet are a network of news servers that peers articals to each other. By sending each of the servers, a single post can be made available by millions of poeple in a matter of minutes downloadable by anyone that has access to Usenet. However, Not everyone has access. Most ISP's give Usenet access, but select few give limited or no Usenet access. Therefor, companies like Newshosting, and Usenetserver step in and provide the services. |
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| Why use newsgroups? |
Usenet is a great way to spread information or data. We use newsgroups for mutiable reasons:
1) One file will get to thousands of people, You only have to upload it once insted of 100's of times. (IE. BT, FTP, IRC)
2) It's alot faster then any other method. Those with fast broadband and a decent host can download at speeds above 600kb/s. |
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| How do I download from newsgroups? |
There are alot of ways to download from newsgroups. First, You need a news reader. For downloading files, I suggest Newsleecher, or Grabit. Grabit is a free program, while newsleecher is not. I suggest using both and you can decide what is better. You will also need Winrar to unextract the files. You may also want to get QuickPAR to make sure the files are complete. |
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| How do I add RSS feeds to Firefox? |
On the bottem right of your Firefox browser you will see a orange box next to the resize box. Click on it and you can click "Subscribe to OMNI post database RSS feed". If you need the url for this feature, the url is: rss.php?bookmark=1 ... Please note that this url does not work with other rss readers. You must use rss.php for them to work. |
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| What is this Firefox plugin? |
The Firefox plugin is a search plugin for firefox that lets you search the site from your browser without going to the site first. It shows up in the drop down menu right of your address bar in Firefox when it is installed. To Install it, Click on the "Install Firefox Plugin" in the menu on the top of the page. |
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| What is a RSS Reader? |
A RSS Reader or "RSS Aggregator", is a news reader on websites to get lattest updates directly. Insted of getting daily or weekly newsletters via mail, you can get the lattest news at any time of the day whenever you are ready to read them. The best programs are SharpReader or Awasu ... or you can get updates VIA email by using one of the following free services: FastBuzz, PopHeadlines, IzyNews, or BlogStreet. The RSS Feed URL is: rss.php |
