Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
What about all the posts they got with the acquisition of DejaNews. Hard to add in that line to posts already made.
Usenet?
- Thread starter The Groke
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What about all the posts they got with the acquisition of DejaNews. Hard to add in that line to posts already made.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
You're not really confused are you, however you do have a point.
I've never had a Mac or got stupid Ubuntu to work so I don't know what the answer is.
I've even got a laptop that Ubuntu won't work on. I'm collecting hardware that it won't work on and then one day I'm going to open a museum.
You can run it quite well on VirtualPC from microsoft.
Also works very well in VMWare... Though I'd wait until the new version "Hardy Heron" on the 24th...
bmd
Island in the stream.
Ubuntu?
I can't really understand why it won't just install on the laptop tbh. Last time I tried it just installed the partition and then refused to do anything else, so basically just fucked the boot up. Cheers Ubuntu.
I've checked the linux laptop pages and mine is on there with some incomprehensible gibber about updating the bios, which I did anyway but it's still not playing. Funny, cos XP works fine on it. Cheers Windows.
Ubuntu?
I can't really understand why it won't just install on the laptop tbh. Last time I tried it just installed the partition and then refused to do anything else, so basically just fucked the boot up. Cheers Ubuntu.
I've checked the linux laptop pages and mine is on there with some incomprehensible gibber about updating the bios, which I did anyway but it's still not playing. Funny, cos XP works fine on it. Cheers Windows.
You can install Ubuntu within VMWare or Virtual PC (you can also download images where its already setup for you...). Also try using the ubuntuforums.org, posting up details of your laptop, etc...
You might want to make another thread for this, btw...
You should be able to get similar nzb info from Merlin's index which is free.
Also, some usenet programs (such as altbinz) allow you to search or directly browse the groups yourself so that you don't need nzbs.
Also, some usenet programs (such as altbinz) allow you to search or directly browse the groups yourself so that you don't need nzbs.
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
Hm - is OK, I found a decent site for the nzb's now and subscribed.
Seems to work well.
I am using Unison as my client (Mac) and GigaNews for my feeds.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
To be honest I think Rapidshare is just as good as usenet, but cheaper and with less complication for the less experienced internet user.
WWWeed
Bandwidth Bandit
I'd say usenet would be as good the if the newsgroups where looked after and moderated properly. After having a look around my isps server there seems to be more spam and malware than anything else. As much as I hate to say it I feel usenet is dying but that may just be down to me looking at crap newz servers........
Seems fine for downloading stuff. There's also several quality news-groups on Usenet, espcially the moderated ones.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Nothing will ever reach the giddy heights of uk.music.rave back in the day 
dennisr
the acceptable face
How does it compare to hogwasher? ( http://www.asar.com/ )
(I'm just testing out the whole usenet thing at the mo)
I subscribe to both, tbh. Rapidshare is great for the slightly more obscure stuff thrown up by the music blogs, but for larger files it's more convenient to use usenet programs which are designed to take the legwork out of downloading (and often unrar'ing) multiple sections of a file. In other words, it's a lot easier to click on one link to download a 4G file, rather than 40 rapidshare links (only to find that link 32 has been deleted!)
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Don't you use the Rapidshare Download manager? You just copy and paste the links en masse to the downloader, it verifies the links are live, then downloads them all for you.
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
Dunno - sorry!
I have only used Unison thus far and it seems fine.
Have splashed out the $20 for a copy.
