Usenet access for 10 dollar- special

[Drew]

So Bob has convinced me that usenet is the way to go for downloading stuff but the good connections are 15 dollars a month or more. However UNS is having a special on access for 10 dollars a month that offers 20 connections, SSL, and unlimited downloads.


I signed up, if you want to do me a solid send me a PM and I'll give you my referral but either way it's a good deal.



https://accounts.usenetserver.com/special/

[Kuyuk]

"stuff" = porn.


gotcha.

[Xaerve]

Rule #1 about Usenet.

[Buckwheet]

Also wanted to throw this out:

http://www.supernews.com/superspecial.html

$10 a month.

Oh a side note, I recently picked up an e-reader, and while I don't like ripping writers off, I have about 400 paperbacks I would like a digital copy of. Anyways, I have been using Grab-It as my news reader, any one have other suggestions?

I seem to have a bit of difficulty getting a lot of the archive data using it.

[Bobmuhthol]

I'm using Astraweb at $11/mo, no idea what they're charging right now, but I get over 500 days retention. UNS looks about the same but you might be getting screwed with the 350 from Supernews. I use GrabIt too and I very rarely download anything that isn't at least repairable. What have you been using for an index?

[Buckwheet]

I have not been using anything other then the built in search function of grab-it and doing a full synch.

[Drew]

I'm using Astraweb at $11/mo, no idea what they're charging right now, but I get over 500 days retention. UNS looks about the same but you might be getting screwed with the 350 from Supernews. I use GrabIt too and I very rarely download anything that isn't at least repairable. What have you been using for an index?

How do I repair something? I've downloaded two different version of Dexter season 1 that were linked on NZBmatrix and both of them have been broken.

[Bobmuhthol]

At the very least I would recommend using nzbindex.nl. I haven't seen GrabIt go back very far (usually 2 weeks?) but I might not know what I'm doing.

If you have ever seen that you're downloading PAR2 files, those are for recovery. Download QuickPar (http://www.quickpar.org.uk/) and it should make itself the default PAR2 program, just open any of the PAR2 files and it will scan for everything automatically.

[LMingrone]

Why pay if you're going to pirate? Just Google "______ .torrent" for any movies or music. Done and done.

Porn your thang? Get an Empornium account.

[Bobmuhthol]

Yeah I used to use torrents too. Not because they were free but because I suffered from the same delusion that they were the best available option.

Then I used usenet once. Haven't downloaded a torrent since.

[LMingrone]

Not suggesting that they are the best option. Just easy and free. My HD screeners of Legion and Eli finished while I went out. Can't complain. Hopefully they don't suck.

I never talk about U***** or I**. First rule.

[Buckwheet]

I use usenet because the "leet trackers" I am a member of don't have ebooks.

I already own the books I am grabbing off usenet, so while technically it is pirating, I don't feel too bad because there is no alternative to getting books you own on to a digital reader.

The trackers I am a member of have plenty of stuff on them if I ever wanted it, but I moved along from that a long time ago. Now I just download TV shows so I don't have to pay retarded fees to the cable companies for a DVR.

So a RSS feed from the torrent sites works great because I have the show downloaded about an hour after it aired east coast time. So right about the time I would be sitting down to watch it myself it would be available. Having a couple gbit unmetered servers to seed helps too.

Thanks for the tip Bob on the index. I will have to check that out.

[Celephais]

Why pay if you're going to pirate?
Not everybody pirates because they are cheap.

[Drew]

Hey Bob, I downloaded QuickPar and for instance it found I need 88 more blocks in the Last Samurai. I click "repair" and nothing happens. What do I do now? How I get the blocks I need?

[Bobmuhthol]

You have to get 88 blocks from either more RARs or more PAR2s since however many you have doesn't currently make up for what's missing. If you're getting these from nzbmatrix I don't understand why a download would be incomplete. Sometimes, though, it works to try downloading the missing files one by one from the file list in nzbmatrix.

[Drew]

You have to get 88 blocks from either more RARs or more PAR2s since however many you have doesn't currently make up for what's missing. If you're getting these from nzbmatrix I don't understand why a download would be incomplete. Sometimes, though, it works to try downloading the missing files one by one from the file list in nzbmatrix.

This is the third one I've downloaded from nzbmatrix that isn't complete.

[Bobmuhthol]

Out of how many? I get occasional incompletes out of literally hundreds of successful attempts.

[Drew]

Out of how many? I get occasional incompletes out of literally hundreds of successful attempts.

3 of 20.

[Bobmuhthol]

Go ahead and try downloading the missing files again, it usually works for me if most of the download worked the first time. Also make sure you aren't going beyond the retention limit. Nzbmatrix is up to 550 days now, UNS is at 495.

[Drew]

How do I tell which files are missing?

[Bobmuhthol]

QuickPar uses a green icon for complete, yellow for incomplete, and red for missing.

[Drew]

oh ok that helps. So I have 88 incomplete files out of 100 on this copy of the movie which is 14 gigs. I might as well just redownload the whole thing at this point.

[Bobmuhthol]

88 blocks != 88 files. One file could potentially have more than 88 blocks.

[Drew]

But I have to redownload the entire file to get the block I needed, right?

[Bobmuhthol]

Yes, the file needs to replaced entirely to get any more blocks out of it, but with enough PAR2 files QuickPar repairs incomplete files and makes them whole.

Probably a better answer: if you can, download any PAR2 files that you can notice you don't have before downloading RARs again.

[Drew]

Ok, I downloaded season 1 of Glee (make fun of me all you want). And the whole season doesn't work. I click on tpz-glee101.r00 which is the very first file and it says


! C:\Users\DellPCDec2008\Downloads\GrabIt Downloads\Glee S01 DVDRip Xvid TOPAZ\tpz-g101.r00: You need to start extraction from a previous volume to unpack tpz-g101.avi
! C:\Users\DellPCDec2008\Downloads\GrabIt Downloads\Glee S01 DVDRip Xvid TOPAZ\tpz-g101.r00: No files to extract

[Bobmuhthol]

Show file extensions if you have to. Right click on tpz-g101.rar and choose Extract Here.

[Drew]

there is no actual .rar file, just the .r00 through .r20. I usually click on those to extract it and it works just fine.


EDIT: other than the R** files I've got an .idx, .nfo, .sfv, .sub

I've never seen a .idx file before.

[Bobmuhthol]

[11225]-[FULL]-[#a.b.teevee@EFNet]-[ Glee.S01E01.INTERNAL.DVDRip.XviD-TOPAZ ]-[35/42] - "tpz-g101.rar" yEnc (1/20)


You're missing it. If you downloaded this before January 12 the poster said it was fucked up and supposedly corrected it. I manually downloaded that file and got it successfully.

.idx is index (probably useless), .nfo has the information for the downloads which is generally useful to look at, .sfv and .sub serve essentially no purpose for end users so I always delete them without consideration

[Drew]

Thanks for checking that for me Bob.