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I am new to this Usenet thing and this thread was very helpful. Thanks so much, OP! Just confused about one thing. I am using http://nzb.su to search for what I want to download. I'm noticing it's a bit lacking, like I'd expect more results for a particular search than I am getting. Could it have anything to do with http://nzb.su Like is there a better "search site" or something that shows more results?
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Milky_Sauce posted:I am new to this Usenet thing and this thread was very helpful. Thanks so much, OP! There are different indexing sites and some are going to be better than others. nzb.su monitors usenet for files that are posted to it and then indexes them in a database so you can search and find them (this is how all of these indexing sites work). The problem is that a lot of indexing sites aren't taking new members so anything better is probably closed to new members. I don't have any experience with other usenet indexers (specifically closed ones) so I'm just kind of assuming they are better.. I know what you mean about it feeling a bit lacking, but for recent stuff it seems to be as good as any. Is the stuff you are searching for older? Old seasons of tv shows, etc? BlackRider fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Nov 4, 2011 |
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Nov 4, 2011 01:16
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deep square leg posted:Interesting! I won't be using it on Windows, though. But anyway, I do think I could just override the python method that returns the system time (but I don't care enough to try). What will you be using it on? That library is for linux.
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Nov 4, 2011 03:43
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Ashex posted:What will you be using it on? That library is for linux. Sorry I should have said "I won't be using it. My SickBeard is installed on Windows".
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Nov 4, 2011 03:48
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BlackRider posted:There are different indexing sites and some are going to be better than others. nzb.su monitors usenet for files that are posted to it and then indexes them in a database so you can search and find them (this is how all of these indexing sites work). The problem is that a lot of indexing sites aren't taking new members so anything better is probably closed to new members. I don't have any experience with other usenet indexers (specifically closed ones) so I'm just kind of assuming they are better.. Thanks for this. I tried a bunch of things, yeah one of them was a TV show and almost nothing came up. A good example I can give while not approaching  territory is searching "[EDITED OUT TO BE SAFE]" in the XXX section. [NAME EDITED], while not exactly a porno star, is famous as hell and I'm getting like 1 page of results. Does the monthly package I bought from UseNetServer impact that at all? Again, sorry if I sound like an idiot, I'm still learning this stuff 
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Nov 4, 2011 04:54
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FYI, porn is just as copyrighted as anything else and thus just as . As for your particular example, all that matters is what's been posted during the retention time of your server. That sort of content doesn't tend to be reposted often unless it's amazingly popular, plus if you're searching by name you'll only get content that has her name in its title.
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Nov 4, 2011 05:45
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Hey don't worry about asking questions, this is the right place for them. I'm still learning the fine details myself. I thought that looked like too few results for that search term so I tried signing up for an nzb site that only does porn.. it gave pretty much the same results. It may actually be that there aren't many nzbs for her out there (or whatever newsgroup they are posted too isn't being indexed). Maybe someone who knows this stuff a little better can give a more definitive answer. Edit: Yeah, guess there just isn't much from her out there or the titles she is in don't contain her name.
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Nov 4, 2011 05:59
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inpheaux (The OP) posted:Don't talk about the specific contents of specific newsgroups. Milky_Sauce, you can just edit out that example. Not a big deal. gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Nov 4, 2011 |
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Nov 4, 2011 16:07
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wolrah posted:FYI, porn is just as copyrighted as anything else and thus just as I just read this a few minutes ago: http://bit.ly/rBcMXz quote:Following on our story about questions concerning the copyright status of both Debbie Does Dallas and Deepthroat, we're pointed to a copyright lawsuit concerning porn, in which the judge notes that in many parts of the country, it's actually an open question if porn can even be covered by copyright.
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Nov 4, 2011 16:47
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Hogburto posted:These rules keep the thread legit and keep the thread focused on usenet and usenet software. Sorry about that, I figured I'd use something as benign as possible but I've edited my post. The only other thing confusing me is I am getting this message a lot from nzb.su: "Service Unavailable Your maximum api or download limit has been reached for the day" Is this a limit set from nzb.su or is it the UsenetServer package I bought? I thought if there was any download limit it would have been monthly, not daily? Besides, I bought this $10 a month package which says unlimited: http://www.usenetserver.com/partners/ngr/?a_aid=ngr&a_bid=986e020f&chan=NGR Again, I'm really new to this, so I apologize for the silly questions.
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Nov 4, 2011 17:57
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I can't find anything on the site at the moment, but I seem to remember when I was using nzb.su a while ago that unless you sign up / donate money, you are limited to the amount of nzb files you can download daily.
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Nov 4, 2011 18:08
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Milky_Sauce posted:The only other thing confusing me is I am getting this message a lot from nzb.su:
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Nov 4, 2011 18:08
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Just found the info, check out http://nzb.su/vip
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Nov 4, 2011 18:09
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Ah, thanks a ton. I guess I will donate (you'd think where they post the error I was getting they'd link you to a donation page!) I do have one more question, though, and I promise it's the last. Again, thanks so much for this thread, I had been meaning to get into Usenet for a while but it was such a confusing mess I couldn't have done it without it. Last time I tried to use Usenet, about 2 years ago or so, it was just as I remembered it in the early 90s. I needed a program to access it (I think I tried xnews and Thunderbird) and there'd be like 10,000 "sub sections" of the TV "section" for example. alt.tv.comedy.animated or something would be an example. Now when I search in TV on a site like nzb.su, does it search just under alt.tv or whatever? Or does it search under the "sub sections" as well? I'd like it to the be latter because obviously I'd get more hits. Except of course if it's the latter, that means when searching in "XXX" I'm assuming it's going to be looking in alt.binaries.erotica.bestiality  Unless these sites are just smart enough to leave out the depraved "sub sections"? jenny jones fan fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Nov 4, 2011 |
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Nov 4, 2011 18:28
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Each indexer searches a set list of groups. If you use binsearch, for example, you can select if you want to search common news groups or specific ones. I don't think it would be feasible for anyone to facilitate an alt.binaries.xxx.* search. It would be too overwhelming. Edit: xxx meaning "whatever," not porn necessarily.
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Nov 4, 2011 18:58
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Thermopyle posted:I just read this a few minutes ago: Not to derail too much, but that's ridiculous. Of course you wouldn't be able to copyright "people having sex," but certainly any film or even a film clip is automatically copyrighted upon its creation, no? If it's legal, obviously. If not, then it's moot anyway.
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Nov 4, 2011 20:54
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Smeep posted:Not to derail too much, but that's ridiculous. Of course you wouldn't be able to copyright "people having sex," but certainly any film or even a film clip is automatically copyrighted upon its creation, no? If it's legal, obviously. If not, then it's moot anyway. Well apparently the issue is that what you say makes sense, it just isn't a settled issue in many jurisdictions. (Note that IANAL, but the text quoted is from a judge, so whatever that means to you)
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Nov 4, 2011 21:20
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drwprtcht posted:Sorry if this has been posted already...but xsusenet is offering free 1mbit accounts right now. Is it just me, or do these guys have like 7 days retention tops? I've pulled a couple of newsgroups and I've yet to see anything much older than that.
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Nov 5, 2011 02:58
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kazmeyer posted:Is it just me, or do these guys have like 7 days retention tops? I've pulled a couple of newsgroups and I've yet to see anything much older than that.
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Nov 5, 2011 04:06
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Question: In server setup it shows the "name" of my server being "news.supernews.com:563" even though my port is set to 443. If I have 443 in the port and SSL box checked it will test connection fine, if I uncheck SSL box and leave 443 it errors out. Does the SSL box force port 563 regardless of what you put in the port field?
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Nov 5, 2011 09:49
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So I just signed up for the free account on xsusenet. It's working fine although slow enough that I think most on this thread would become frustrated and you could probably get the same files elsewhere free much faster.
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Nov 5, 2011 17:15
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So I finally got around to setting up a HTPC with XBMC + Sick Beard + Sabnzbd, and so far it's pretty awesome and impressive. One question: What is the best way to fix a show in sickbeard where the tvdb and the scene releases are different. It looks like this one show I added the initial pilot was a double episode, and the scene releases went with one numbering scheme, and tvdb with another, so now every episode is off by one when sickbeard imports it into xbmc. edit: What I mean is, TVDB/SickBeard has the episodes numbered like this: S01E01, S01E02, S01E03, S01E04, S01E05, S01E06 All the NZB releases, because of the production numbering and double episode, skipped episode 02, number them like this: S01E01, S01E03, S01E04, S01E05, S01E06, S01E07 So in other words, what's E05 in Sickbeard is actually E06 on all the index sites, and I can't seem to find any way to update the episode DB for sickbeard to put it back in sync. I could manually rename all the files and reimport into XBMC and reset the episode status in sickbeard, but without disabling the show in Sickbeard, it's going to continuously think that the current episode is the current+1 and redownload it. mrmcd fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Nov 6, 2011 |
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Nov 6, 2011 16:11
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Yeah you're kind of screwed when TheTVDB (Sickbeard's source) disagrees with The Scene who releases stuff.
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Nov 6, 2011 20:11
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Nm its me.
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Nov 6, 2011 21:46
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I've found xsusenet to be useful for DMCA fills. I have it marked as optional in SABnzbd because my expectations are low for the free service.
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Nov 6, 2011 22:02
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That's exactly why I grabbed a free account, though looking at server stats I haven't used it yet. Guess the stuff i'm grabbing isn't getting dmca'd.
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Nov 6, 2011 22:47
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mrmcd posted:... double episodes... You want to look into naming schemes for files that contain multiple episodes. Naming the first file s01e01e02 and going on normally from there should work in both xbmc abd sickbeard IIRC.
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Nov 7, 2011 00:56
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One Arm Manny posted:You want to look into naming schemes for files that contain multiple episodes. Naming the first file s01e01e02 and going on normally from there should work in both xbmc abd sickbeard IIRC.
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Nov 7, 2011 01:13
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Does anyone know if there's a way to have Sickbeard remux MKVs to m2ts files during post processing? PS3 Media server seems to stream MKVs fine for the most part, except for when I try and seek to a certain point in the video, at which point it shits the bed. Having to manually remux everything with MKV2VOB is getting a little annoying as well. The closest thing I've found is this sabnzbd script http://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php?t=4915 which seems to accomplish what I'm aiming for, but it doesn't look like it'd work with sickbeard's show/season folders as it requires that I specify a single source folder. I couldn't write or modify a script to save my life unfortunately, anyone know what I'd need to change, or have another script they're already using?
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Nov 7, 2011 07:59
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One Arm Manny posted:You want to look into naming schemes for files that contain multiple episodes. Naming the first file s01e01e02 and going on normally from there should work in both xbmc abd sickbeard IIRC. I hate doing this as it means the second episode is tricky at best to jump directly to, but I had to do it for the first time recently with a certain recently restarted animated series that airs with two 15 minute episodes in a 30 minute time slot. UltimoDragonQuest posted:You can make it work after the fact and have a properly named archive, but you can't automatically download episodes when the numbers don't match and there is no way to adjust them. I've been working on hacking Sickbeard to support lookups against a database that has actual scene release filenames and the TVDB episode IDs they associate with, but it's not too reliable at the moment and would require public hosting with a decent user community to be useful.
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Nov 7, 2011 16:54
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Lazy Eye posted:I've found xsusenet to be useful for DMCA fills. I have it marked as optional in SABnzbd because my expectations are low for the free service. That's exactly what I've done and I've pulled nearly a GB from them in the past few weeks as a result. No complaints about free.
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Nov 7, 2011 17:03
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wolrah posted:I hate doing this as it means the second episode is tricky at best to jump directly to, but I had to do it for the first time recently with a certain recently restarted animated series that airs with two 15 minute episodes in a 30 minute time slot. You can also hand edit the NFO file to tell it the time code where the 2nd episode starts. A pain, I know. For shows that I have the definitive version of, I might just split the files by hand.
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Nov 7, 2011 22:42
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So I noticed my speeds have been very low for me about half what they should be. I changed my port from 563 to 443 and now its great. Is cox in AZ throttling 563 now? What should I do if they start throttling 443 also? vpn? I'm not a heavy user at all and I've never had issues with them before.
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Nov 8, 2011 05:44
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Nask26 posted:So I noticed my speeds have been very low for me about half what they should be. I changed my port from 563 to 443 and now its great. Is cox in AZ throttling 563 now? What should I do if they start throttling 443 also? vpn? I'm not a heavy user at all and I've never had issues with them before. Hmm. Also with Cox AZ. I was using 443, switched over to 563 to test. No issues so far. Running at my usual steady 2.9MB/s. What provider are you with?
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Nov 8, 2011 06:47
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PirateDentist posted:Hmm. Also with Cox AZ. I was using 443, switched over to 563 to test. No issues so far. Running at my usual steady 2.9MB/s. What provider are you with? Supernews and I also tried it with blocknews. I'll keep messing around with it and see what happens. Happy to hear it might just be something with me.
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Nov 8, 2011 07:02
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God drat, downloaded 60 gigs of Linux Distros and every single file is missing like 13mb, not leaving enough parity bits to repair. No one on any of the sites is reporting the NZB is missing bits and I tried random files on both the US and EU Astraweb SSL servers, both give the same result. Am i hosed?
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Nov 8, 2011 07:06
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You could manually search for individual parts using binsearch or. At a stretch, some other format (torrent, google) and then use a manual par2 repairer?
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Nov 8, 2011 08:15
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Nam Taf posted:You could manually search for individual parts using binsearch or. At a stretch, some other format (torrent, google) and then use a manual par2 repairer? Yep. (honestly doesn't everyone do this from time to time ?)
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Nov 8, 2011 10:17
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A friend and I just ran into five separate ~8GB posts tonight that were all completely neutered by DMCA requests on Giganews/Supernews. Like each 100MB rar came out to be maybe 1 to 5MB, if they existed at all. I think I'm gonna switch to Astraweb over this.
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Astraweb is going to be similar. Spend some cash on a backup server that isn't reselling the same service and you should be fine. I use Astraweb and Blocknews and it seems to be working fine.
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