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  1. This works for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music?

    Amazon's editors (not the fans/buyers) have been pretty consistent in picking good stuff.
    Basically, if you haven't used it before, I'd recommend the following way to get a really good variety:

    1.Best of by Years will get you started with some great CD's you haven't heard of.
    2. Get a download account
    3. An account to find the music.
    4. A program to download the music.

    Total price is about $20/month, though well worth it to get your collection started. Such a shame the record companies are too thick-headed to get their share of the pie; On the other hand, what value are they providing here with this model, anyway??

  2. Re:Shhhhhhhhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MPAA Ignores Usenet, Goes After Bittorrent

    http://www.newsbin.com/

  3. A Simple Recipe by Thedalek · · Score: 2, Informative · on Videogame Piracy - Is a Stricter Approach Necessary?

    Take one part Usenetserver account ($3.00 a day for a 3 day trial, or $15.00 a month), and mix liberally with one part NewzBin usenet archiving service. Add your favorite y-enc enabled newsreader to flavor to taste. Serves an entire campus, until your OIT decides to block port 119.

  4. List by WillDraven · · Score: 1 · on First Ten Programs on New Install?
    0) OS updates.
    1) Kerio Personal Firewall - Everyone has thier own personal favorite firewall. This is the one im using atm.
    2) StatBar - Very usefull little program, allows you to see how much recources windows is sucking up, also a few handy things like time syncing and winamp control.
    3) WinAmp 2.95 - Since I keep my winamp minimized in the systray most of the time i dont need a pretty interface, this works just fine for me.
    4) mIRC - Being an irc netadmin, I need this, or else I die from withdrawl.
    5) WinRar - Winrar, need I say more?
    6) Putty - SSH Client to login to nix shells.
    7) FlashFXP - Handy FTP client.
    8) SpyBot S&D - I think we all know what this is.
    9) NewsBin - Newsgroups reader.
    10) Nod32 Antivirus - Everyone needs antivirus.. well, on [relatively] unsecure windows boxes at least.

    These are not in the right order, just threw em up there as i thought of them.

  5. Re:*SLASHDOT* has been tracking this for a while.. by SQLz · · Score: 1 · on Comcast Targets Internet "Abusers"
    So, they get a bunch of customers becomming one of the largest ISPs and probably *the* largest broadband ISP. They don't like the fact that some users are actually USING their bandwith so they decide to make up near-random numbers so that they can cut you off when they want...

    Its not that they don't want people to use the service, its just not right for the top 5% of people to be using 99% of the available bandwidth on a node, even if they are not home!

    These people setup Newsbin to download pron, anime, etc 24/7 hours a day. Gigs upon gigs per day. Meanwhile, it hurts the service for EVERYONE ELSE. I say screw the leechers. Any normal person or even a family of 10 normal net users is not going to run into the invisible barrier. We're talking about people doing a terabyte of transfer a month, not simple using a consumer level connection for what is was designed for.
  6. Re:Too bad though... by ngoy · · Score: 2, Interesting · on FEMA Opposes Broadband Over Powerlines

    Sprint used to be one out here in AZ. It was Speedchoice, now Sprint Broadband Direct. They still support older customers but are no longer taking on new ones due to the lack of an "optimum cost structure." It is a line of site service, so there is a diamond shaped antenna which points at an array on a mountain. Rain fade hasn't been a problem, trees growing are. Since it is a microwave system they have an fcc license or something for each installation. But the cost is only $44.95/month, six email accounts with web sites through earthlink, slow upstream speed though (Easynews using Newsbin Pro at an average of 4.5Mbps. Online gaming is ok once the command rates are tweaked a bit. And I don't have to deal with the cable company, the local phone company (Qwest, which sucks donkey balls), or an expensive two-way satellite. Too bad they are not installing customers, they skip the whole last mile link since the line of sight range is over 50 miles iirc.

  7. Offtopic: Mac OS X newsreader? by PunchMonkey · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft to do for Usenet what it did for Email & The Web?

    This is somewhat offtopic, but seems like a good time and place to ask.

    Anyone know of a good newsreader for mac os x? I've googled up a few, but they are all terrible from my point of view.

    In my last life I was a windows user and would use newsbin pro which was great for binaries and Agent for reading/posting.

  8. Re:Agent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Usenet Encoding: yEnc

    NewsBin