HOWTO - Abusenet

[HereComesPete]

They've tried with oink, tpb etc to strike at the storage. Now I imagine they want to try and remove infrastructure, making it harder for people to find and receive what they want.

Possibly they're looking for an easier target, someone smaller and for whom it's harder to deny culpability given their obvious business nature.

No doubt a direct attempt on the ripping and coding groups would fail even harder than anything else has so far, might as well nail jelly to a wall whilst trying to look at the back of your own head.

They may well win this, but it'll have little impact in real world terms.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

anyone tried www.astraweb.com ?

Looks pretty cheap, decent retention and SSL.

[HereComesPete]

SPAMMEERRR!! Ban him, hard!

[Dr. kitteny berk]

How to use newzbin without reports:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitteny_berk/4479031963/" title="nzb1 by Kitteny Berk, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/447 ... 30e6_o.gif" width="549" height="232" alt="nzb1"></a>

Press Go after selecting usenet cond.

This'll make newzbin display a conditioned feed of usenet sorted by categories still, this is a bit of the TV section. Most stuff is easy to identify.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitteny_berk/4479658454/" title="nzb2 by Kitteny Berk, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2717/447 ... e367b4.jpg" width="500" height="89" alt="nzb2"></a>

Is what newzbin will look like, the numbers in brackets at the end of each title is how complete the post is, Red is incomplete, black is complete, blue is too many parts (most likely complete, may have a duplicate or have picked up 2 separate posts and mushed them together)

You can click on the files link at the left to see what files are there, sometimes the par files will pop up in their own post, usually easy enough to see.

It's not ideal, and not as good as the edited reports, but it works, and is faster than reports, because they need human intervention.

[Killavodka]

thanks for the advice Berk you wonderful git!

[Dr. kitteny berk]

I dunno if we have a more current usenet thread.

Anyway, figured it was worth mentioning.

dognzb is a rather good thing, if you can get an invite.

and tweaknews.eu seem to be rather affordable, especially if you don't need super fun download speeds.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

oh yeah, cast thread ressamuwhatsit.

[FatherJack]

tweaknews.eu seem to be rather affordable, especially if you don't need super fun download speeds.

I don't really bother anymore, but I did get in trouble for super fun speeds when I did, so that actually seems like a more sensible option. At the time Virgin knew I was doing something with the massive throughput I was sustaining, but couldn't seem to work out what, so they just kept capping me, massively.

These days, with my online backup stuff, I'm more bothered about upload speeds - in the last sixish months I've downloaded 1.6TB, but uploaded 4.2TB - I wonder what they think I'm doing now - I seem capped at about 1Mb/s upload, which isn't that surprising given I'm *constantly* uploading, but finally after those same six months I think I've got almost everything I want backed up, so it should calm down.

[Joose]

I don't really bother anymore, but I did get in trouble for super fun speeds when I did, so that actually seems like a more sensible option. At the time Virgin knew I was doing something with the massive throughput I was sustaining, but couldn't seem to work out what, so they just kept capping me, massively.

Really? I abuse the shit out of my Virgin connection and as long as I don't use standard ports I don't get throttled at all.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

This week (thanks to Joose) I've automated basically all of my downloady stuff.

Mainly by following This guide.

FWIW (in addition to that guide)
The proper url for dognzb is api.dognzb.cr (though, they're currently not allowing new members due to paypal fucking them over)
This makes headphones run without a shitty window up.
Serviio and Media Browser make everything all sexy and DLNA compatible.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Also, W10 doesn't seem to like launching sickbeard from the startup folder via shortcut (even with admin rights)

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Start ""  "C:\Program Files (x86)\SickBeard\SickBeard.exe"

(or, whatever your sickbeard directory lives) in a batch file works nicely.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

dognzb is a rather good thing, if you can get an invite.

Apparently they're doing invites again, and I have 4 of them, I assume joose also has invites, but he's drunk on or around a boat currently, as far as I'm aware.

[FatherJack]

I'm kinda interested from a technical standpoint. I don't want to pay for an account or anything because I won't use it enough but I did want to add how to add news feeds as part of the raspberry pi guide so could use a trial or test account. You can add things like sickbeard and couchpotato controller apps to the pi, but the background stuff needs to be running on something to be controlled by it.