Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Brian Weeden wrote: Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming? Road Runner runs good servers for thier customers. That is what I use. Only 2-3 day retention on binaries though. Christopher Fisk -- Homer: I'm sorry, Marge, but sometimes I think we're the worst family in town. Marge: Maybe we should move to a larger community. There's No Disgrace Like Home
Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who
Giganews, unlimited d/l, 10 connects, full speed. Brian Weeden wrote: Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming?
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Giganews. Mark Dodge MD Computers 360-772-2433 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:06 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming?
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Giganews. Ditto Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming? -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
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Newshosting $15/mo, unlimited, 4 (going to 8) connects, ~45 days binary retention Two connects maxes my 6mbit line. Giganews has better retention (~60 days), but costs $10/mo more for the unlimited account. - Original Message - From: JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who Giganews. Ditto Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming? -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
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You need a newsreader (I use XNews), WinRAR or some tool that handles RAR files, and QuickPAR to recover damaged files. Basically what happens is you download a bunch of .RAR and .PAR files. You run QuickPAR on the PAR files and it will make sure your RAR's are not corrupt, and will recover them from parity data (stored in the .PAR files) if it can. Then you decompress the RAR's and voila, content. jeff.lane wrote: From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who Probably too expensive. I'd be happy to see it on BBC America though. Either way, the rips on the newsgroups are good enough quality to watch on my HDTV... I'd rather do that then the torrents, in this case, but how the heck do you get the files together? I have tried Googling several times but don't know what they call the format.special software, what? Hope this doesn't jump over our line. If it does please don't answer and I'll plead insanityeasy for me. Jeff
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Lots of Dr Who on the one Comcast has, too. - Original Message - From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who The one for Verizon DSL is amazingly good and free. Brian Weeden wrote: Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming?
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Thanks, Ben - Original Message - From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who You need a newsreader (I use XNews), WinRAR or some tool that handles RAR files, and QuickPAR to recover damaged files. Basically what happens is you download a bunch of .RAR and .PAR files. You run QuickPAR on the PAR files and it will make sure your RAR's are not corrupt, and will recover them from parity data (stored in the .PAR files) if it can. Then you decompress the RAR's and voila, content. jeff.lane wrote: From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who Probably too expensive. I'd be happy to see it on BBC America though. Either way, the rips on the newsgroups are good enough quality to watch on my HDTV... I'd rather do that then the torrents, in this case, but how the heck do you get the files together? I have tried Googling several times but don't know what they call the format.special software, what? Hope this doesn't jump over our line. If it does please don't answer and I'll plead insanityeasy for me. Jeff
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Comcast is 2GB/mo limit and I think they count headers. It's provded by Giganews BTW. jeff.lane wrote: Lots of Dr Who on the one Comcast has, too. - Original Message - From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who The one for Verizon DSL is amazingly good and free. Brian Weeden wrote: Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming?
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At 02:36 PM 12/31/2005, Greg Sevart typed: Newshosting $15/mo, unlimited, 4 (going to 8) connects, ~45 days binary retention Two connects maxes my 6mbit line. Giganews has better retention (~60 days), but costs $10/mo more for the unlimited account. I use the AstraWeb http://www.news.astraweb.com/ their DSL connection for $15 has 4 connections it maxes out my 5mbit cable line. The one thing I don't like about Giganews is that one can NOT get the full speed service immediately after signing up. All new Giganews® personal accounts come with 3 days of free service (up to 1GB total transfer). and if it's on the weekend 3 days easily becomes 5 or 6 but what is one suppose to do after they've downloaded the 1g in approx 15 min.? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
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That's interesting. I rarely use the newsgroups so I had better look that up. Just another rip, eh? - Original Message - From: warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who Comcast is 2GB/mo limit and I think they count headers. It's provded by Giganews BTW. jeff.lane wrote: Lots of Dr Who on the one Comcast has, too. - Original Message - From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who The one for Verizon DSL is amazingly good and free. Brian Weeden wrote: Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming?
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I hit no such barrier after signing up in August. AFAIK it's a point-of-no-return thing on refunds not a hard limit on usability. While I hate potential for spending $120/year more than I was I like the service. Just wish it was not 25GB or unlimited choices, need something in between which they had add in September but the link is a 404 now. Almost (now over?) 2 months of binaries retention full speed d/l's make them real attractive. Getting a steady 1MByte/sec on my 8Mbit/sec link, so saturated! =) Of course don't know what they log, something to ponder in this age... Wayne Johnson wrote: All new Giganews® personal accounts come with 3 days of free service (up to 1GB total transfer). and if it's on the weekend 3 days easily becomes 5 or 6 but what is one suppose to do after they've downloaded the 1g in approx 15 min.?
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Not if text is your target or you need some fills.. Same service is like $8 direct from Giganews. jeff.lane wrote: That's interesting. I rarely use the newsgroups so I had better look that up. Just another rip, eh? - Original Message - From: warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comcast is 2GB/mo limit and I think they count headers. It's provded by Giganews BTW. jeff.lane wrote: Lots of Dr Who on the one Comcast has, too.
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From: warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who Rumor is SciFi had the option to carry Dr. Who but declined, stupid move IMHO. They actually ran some episodes several years ago but they never gave it a chance. It was run at very odd times and they seem to think it was geared strictly for little kids. How wrong they are!! I started seriously watching (fan) with John Pertwee and have seen most all of the subsequent episodes(that's a lot of seasons). Just watched this a few nights ago and have to agree vs. what I watched years ago this is light years better done production and still great Dr. Who! I had seen some of the original ones through the years and the very first years were aimed at the children. Then something strange happenedit was considered campy and the adults grabbed on and have ever since. That is why the productions and effects have improved so much over the years. It used to be really cheap to make,,,no more. Sure miss Tom Baker, though. He would have been the greatest(probably was anyway) with all the new effects. Brian Weeden wrote: The BBC brought back Dr Who last year and it was pretty awesome. A much improved script, acting, and effects over the old stuff while still maintianing the style and humor of the original. They just did a special that aired on Christmas Day The Christmas Invasion as a prequel to the new season that was pretty awesome. Even my non-scifi liking fiancee liked it. Unfortunately, the only way to access these shows in the US is via your friendly BitTorrent network. Season 1 should be available on DVD here in the next month but the new season won't be out for another year. Great to hear from Who fans from both sides of the pond Jeff
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Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming? On 12/30/05, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably too expensive. I'd be happy to see it on BBC America though. Either way, the rips on the newsgroups are good enough quality to watch on my HDTV... warpmedia wrote: Rumor is SciFi had the option to carry Dr. Who but declined, stupid move IMHO. Just watched this a few nights ago and have to agree vs. what I watched years ago this is light years better done production and still great Dr. Who! Brian Weeden wrote: The BBC brought back Dr Who last year and it was pretty awesome. A much improved script, acting, and effects over the old stuff while still maintianing the style and humor of the original. They just did a special that aired on Christmas Day The Christmas Invasion as a prequel to the new season that was pretty awesome. Even my non-scifi liking fiancee liked it. Unfortunately, the only way to access these shows in the US is via your friendly BitTorrent network. Season 1 should be available on DVD here in the next month but the new season won't be out for another year. -- Brian
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From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who Probably too expensive. I'd be happy to see it on BBC America though. Either way, the rips on the newsgroups are good enough quality to watch on my HDTV... I'd rather do that then the torrents, in this case, but how the heck do you get the files together? I have tried Googling several times but don't know what they call the format.special software, what? Hope this doesn't jump over our line. If it does please don't answer and I'll plead insanityeasy for me. Jeff
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At 05:05 PM 12/30/2005, Brian Weeden typed: Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming? AstraWeb --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
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Yes it is quite good this side of the pond..enough said. - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:59 PM Subject: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who The BBC brought back Dr Who last year and it was pretty awesome. A much improved script, acting, and effects over the old stuff while still maintianing the style and humor of the original. They just did a special that aired on Christmas Day The Christmas Invasion as a prequel to the new season that was pretty awesome. Even my non-scifi liking fiancee liked it. Unfortunately, the only way to access these shows in the US is via your friendly BitTorrent network. Season 1 should be available on DVD here in the next month but the new season won't be out for another year. -- Brian
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Or alt.binaries.drwho Brian Weeden wrote: The BBC brought back Dr Who last year and it was pretty awesome. A much improved script, acting, and effects over the old stuff while still maintianing the style and humor of the original. They just did a special that aired on Christmas Day The Christmas Invasion as a prequel to the new season that was pretty awesome. Even my non-scifi liking fiancee liked it. Unfortunately, the only way to access these shows in the US is via your friendly BitTorrent network. Season 1 should be available on DVD here in the next month but the new season won't be out for another year. -- Brian
