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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.

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

Ah. I didn't notice the semicolon. It's a face with tongue sticking out.

Looking at it now I see the button is actually blue. Same idea though.

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"YES, SWITCH MY DNS" is the WRONG button.

To change the DNS IPs, you must click the grey "NO THANKS" button.

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.

How to download music, movies and pictures while you sleep.

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.

How to download music, movies and pictures while you sleep.

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.

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.

Getting my ass kicked by a 12-year-old is bad enough. Now the blind are going to beat me?

How to search for and download files while you sleep.

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.

Fill your hard drive with uncensored files while you sleep.

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?st ream_id=666

Fill your hard drive with music, movies and pictures while you sleep.

>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.

Fill your hard drive with music, movies and pictures while you sleep.

75 million in debt / 40,000 subscribers = $1,875 per subscriber. Ouch.

Fill your hard drive with music, movies and pictures while you sleep.

I'd gladly pay twice as much for twice the bandwidth. Unfortunately they'll probably double the price and increase bandwidth by 10%.

Download music, movies and pictures while you sleep.

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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Binary Boy downloads music, movies and pictures while you sleep.

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)

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)

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.

Binary Boy downloads movies, pictures and music while you sleep.

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)