Domain: binaryboy.com
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Comments · 19
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Don't use Outlook Express for Usenet downloads...
Outlook Express has newsreader capabilities but is absolutely horrible at downloading binaries. It's extremely slow for one thing, often pinning the CPU at 100% while "searching message for hyperlinks". It also requires you to manually select all the pieces of a file and move them into the correct order.
This little program, on the other hand, is amazing. It automatically gathers scattered pieces together and shows at a glance whether all the pieces are present. There is a small learning curve with Binary Boy but if you use Usenet for downloading pr0^H^H^Hmedia it pays off quickly in the time you will save.
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Re:archive.org can't handle a slashdotting
That's me!
If it crashed, it may have been because of some inefficiencies in the way it stored headers. Recent betas use less than half the RAM as previous versions. Binary Boy Newsreader
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Re:FIRST BLOCK
Ah. I didn't notice the semicolon. It's a face with tongue sticking out.
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Re:Regardless of what they call themselves,
Looking at it now I see the button is actually blue. Same idea though.
Screen Shot
"YES, SWITCH MY DNS" is the WRONG button.
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Re:The !Zone
However, what about the losing streaks? There seems to be another level where everything seems to go wrong, and I have to quit and try later.
This is caused either by lag or by cheaters. When I'm losing, I first check the latency. If it's over 150, I'm losing because of lag. If it's under 150, I'm losing because my opponents are cheating.
But if you can't beat the cheaters, join them. I find that accusing people of cheating can be very helpful. Often they will give me the URL where they got their cheats. Unfortunately though I still can't find the file area at goatse.cx.
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NYT archives
Doesn't the NYT report on everything from births to marriages to arrests and don't they have archives going back decades? Seems a bit hypocritical.
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Don't forget deja.com
deja.com, the usenet archive, is hardly ever mentioned as a programmer's site even though it holds the answers to nearly any programming question you might have. I use it more often than any other site. Search for a problem and you'll find that a dozen people have experienced it and solved it already.
How to download movies, music and pictures from newsgroups while you sleep. -
Not detected
The research found that Linux systems in the firing line typically deployed open source third-party applications, certain versions of which contained well known vulnerabilities which are not being patched fast enough and are continuously exploited by hackers.
A lot of people have complained about patches not being included in the kernel fast enough but it seems app patches are slowing down as well. What's going on? Maybe this is affected by school schedules.
How to fill your hard drive with music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
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The final humiliation
Getting my ass kicked by a 12-year-old is bad enough. Now the blind are going to beat me?
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Re:Wild Turkeys...> Fly!
I've seen this.
Many years ago a friend and I were riding our bikes in a wooded area. Suddenly a turkey took off from the brush, flapping loudly. It got up to about 25 - 30 feet and then went beyond some trees so I don't know how far it got. It's not the most elegant bird but it does fly. Raised turkeys are probably too fat to fly.
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Re:Billg
It can be done. It's already running a stripped down version of Windows 2000, as an MS engineer mentions in his "Inside the XBOX Launch" talk here: http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_play_stream.html?s
t ream_id=666
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Re:They bought it...
>If I paid as much money as NASA did to go get that rock, I'd want it back too.
NASA got it for free. Taxpayers paid for the missions.
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Cost per subscriber
75 million in debt / 40,000 subscribers = $1,875 per subscriber. Ouch.
Fill your hard drive with music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
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Service improvements too?
I'd gladly pay twice as much for twice the bandwidth. Unfortunately they'll probably double the price and increase bandwidth by 10%.
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Philadelphia Mayor Attending?
Unless someone is playing a prank, it looks like the mayor (j.f.street(AT)phila.gov) is attending the Philadelphia Party. Didn't realize anyone in the government would be aware of Mozilla.
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Not all programs require yEnc in the subject line.
He mentions this -
It relies upon "yEnc" being in the Subject to determine that the message contains a yEnc binary
Not necessarily. My personal favorite Usenet binaries file grabber, Binary Boy not only handles yEnc nicely but doesn't rely on the subject header to determine whether it's really a yEnc encode or not. Instead it scans the file itself. At least it does as of the current build. (yeah, it's a Windows program, it's closed source and you actually have to pay him money - get over it)
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Not all programs require yEnc in the subject line.
He mentions this -
It relies upon "yEnc" being in the Subject to determine that the message contains a yEnc binary
Not necessarily. My personal favorite Usenet binaries file grabber, Binary Boy not only handles yEnc nicely but doesn't rely on the subject header to determine whether it's really a yEnc encode or not. Instead it scans the file itself. At least it does as of the current build. (yeah, it's a Windows program, it's closed source and you actually have to pay him money - get over it)
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Re:What about the big picture?
And since it's 33% more expensive, the fuel requires 33% more production somewhere in the economy, which isn't necessarily clean or efficient. Price matters.
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[OT] Usenet binary downloaders
Some apps to make use of your bandwidth:
For Windows, free (banner ad supported): BinaryBoy
For Linux: Binary Grabber, brag, Glitter (GUI), PicMonger (GUI), Usenet Binary Harvester (perl)