tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post113534203362603178..comments2023-03-30T15:59:57.492+02:00Comments on alt.binaries.blog: Usenet binaries with Linux tutorialUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-35460359189187874572008-08-29T13:40:00.000+02:002008-08-29T13:40:00.000+02:00knewspost 1.1-1 version seems to work fine althoug...knewspost 1.1-1 version seems to work fine although i followed some advice from <BR/><BR/>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=691892 and found that posting from the command line is really sexy and fast. Same with archiving and many other things.<BR/><BR/>You can get knewspost from sourceforge via this http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=knewspostyahclohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345187380899735536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-44766973375903648512008-08-20T04:40:00.000+02:002008-08-20T04:40:00.000+02:00hellanzb will do most of that automatically.hellanzb will do most of that automatically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-53394909356026710032008-07-10T10:04:00.000+02:002008-07-10T10:04:00.000+02:00For linux I recommend the URD package to download ...For linux I recommend the URD package to download binaries. Check out http://www.urdland.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-50114716450912638662008-04-20T14:10:00.000+02:002008-04-20T14:10:00.000+02:00Oh dear, I boo-booed.Please *disregard* my comment...Oh dear, I boo-booed.<BR/><BR/>Please *disregard* my comment (1) in the previous post.<BR/><BR/>You should indeed put wildcards in the globbing statement - I must have ended up repairing more files than I needed to!<BR/><BR/>So:<BR/><BR/>$ cat filestem.avi.[0-9][0-9][0-9] >filestem.avi<BR/><BR/>is quite correct.<BR/><BR/>Sorry!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-90754385437827396832008-04-19T01:53:00.000+02:002008-04-19T01:53:00.000+02:00Also:1. Concerning joining parts on the commandlin...Also:<BR/><BR/>1. Concerning joining parts on the commandline:<BR/><BR/>I find if all the parts and par files are in their own directory, there's no need to put wildcards in the glob expression. The shell (bash in my case) seems to know I'm talking about numeric globbing only. So I just do:<BR/><BR/>$ cd thatdirectory<BR/>$ cat somefile.avi.* >somefile.avi<BR/><BR/>Never have any problems - Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-57610224237285431792008-04-19T01:32:00.000+02:002008-04-19T01:32:00.000+02:00A few followup notes:1. I thought rar 4.41 for lin...A few followup notes:<BR/><BR/><BR/>1. I thought rar 4.41 for linux was shareware. Needs checking, but I have a suspicion there isn't an obligation to buy.<BR/><BR/>2. Pan2 still is lacking in some ways, but it's all there really is as a half-decent native binary GUI newsreader for linux. It has got a lot right, so it's getting there. It's fine for relatively light use, or if you can get used Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-7635819984402436822008-02-25T05:20:00.000+01:002008-02-25T05:20:00.000+01:00Even though PAN and every other Linux nntp reader ...Even though PAN and every other Linux nntp reader I know of do not support SSL directly, you can use the daemon `stunnel` to create a pipe. Your stunnel.conf file will look something like:<BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>client = yes<BR/><BR/>[nntp.client]<BR/>accept = 127.0.0.1:119<BR/>connect = {your nntp server}:563<BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>Then, you can point your client to localhost, and stunnel will kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01902902216947329255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-14067846175941797492008-02-20T14:39:00.000+01:002008-02-20T14:39:00.000+01:00I use usenext on linux and it works very well...ea...I use usenext on linux and it works very well...<BR/><BR/>easy to use. for me it's the right thing!<BR/><BR/>http://www.usenext.com/UseNextDE/ShopInt/misc/support/miscSupport.cfm?SNUUID=36B7C32E%2D3048%2D8C24%2D4C3929519529F2AC&1203513255670&&CategoryID=8Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07515551408557096797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-1598286749632351942008-02-17T22:09:00.000+01:002008-02-17T22:09:00.000+01:001. STIC ('some tools for image collectors') is a s...1. STIC ('some tools for image collectors') is a set of commandline linux utilities for managing 'an unreasonable amount' of images, including downloading from and posting to usenet with yEnc encoding, and much more.<BR/><BR/>Includes an interesting-sounding utility called 'similar', which somehow is supposed to find images that are similar in content (including duplicates).<BR/><BR/>I haven't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-32717325388403812682008-02-17T21:37:00.000+01:002008-02-17T21:37:00.000+01:00Newsmangler is available here:http://www.madcowdis...Newsmangler is available here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.madcowdisease.org/mcd/newsmangler<BR/><BR/>Does work quite well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-74676247165712834232008-01-24T18:35:00.000+01:002008-01-24T18:35:00.000+01:00For posting from the commandline, I've heard good ...For posting from the commandline, I've heard good things about newsmangler<BR/><BR/>It does yEnc encoding.<BR/><BR/>Requires Python.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-68779568180539131892008-01-06T23:36:00.000+01:002008-01-06T23:36:00.000+01:00Is there any other way of joining .001, .oo2 etc s...Is there any other way of joining .001, .oo2 etc split files? I cant seem to get them to join. New to *nix and this is soo frustrating! Thanks!<BR/><BR/>jerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-11639708759566331802007-11-27T07:36:00.000+01:002007-11-27T07:36:00.000+01:00I posted some useful scripts for working with usen...I posted some useful scripts for working with usenet binaries. Its over http://bonzoli.com/?cat=4<BR/><BR/>Just about everything you could want to do with perl and usenet downloads.Bonzolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09904514292445120356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-15495329668698075982007-11-27T07:32:00.000+01:002007-11-27T07:32:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bonzolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09904514292445120356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-75426018310044807162007-09-28T01:54:00.000+02:002007-09-28T01:54:00.000+02:00I installed Thunar File Manager and added a custom...I installed Thunar File Manager and added a custom actions under edit>>configure custom actions.<BR/><BR/>mkdir $(ls %n|awk -F"." '{print $1}') <BR/><BR/>Add a new action, name it, put in the script, and then go to 'appearance and conditions' tab and select all the check boxes. Your done. Now just right click on the file you want and select the script.<BR/><BR/>I cant take credit for this, but itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-10516394228384573462007-09-27T21:02:00.000+02:002007-09-27T21:02:00.000+02:00this is all awesome...thanksI'm looking for a way ...this is all awesome...thanks<BR/><BR/>I'm looking for a way to make directories from file names. Say I download 200 mp3's, I'd like some way to have directories made from a file name minus the extension. Either by right clicking on the file name and choosing make dir or a way to do it from the command line. im using debian and gnome.<BR/><BR/>I know there is a way to automate this whole process, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-7183499763860964172007-09-25T01:49:00.000+02:002007-09-25T01:49:00.000+02:00To repair with par2s and then extract the rars in ...To repair with par2s and then extract the rars in one go command stack with &&. A typical example would be: par2 r *par2 && rar x *rar. && ensures that if the first command fails it will not go on to the next command. Ideal in this case.<BR/>To get by the 4 server connection limit in Pan put the same server address in twice, or as many times as you like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-47523625457993110442007-07-15T17:54:00.000+02:002007-07-15T17:54:00.000+02:00Thank you Ohmster, I will include your comment.Thank you Ohmster, I will include your comment.tobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02958078050070178640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-497817304990610472007-07-14T03:21:00.000+02:002007-07-14T03:21:00.000+02:00I need a good page like this for reference and I d...I need a good page like this for reference and I do things pretty much the standard way for posting videos. I can do all of this in Windows but prefer not to tie up my Windows computer with these chores when I can offload them to the Linux machine on my LAN and even have the Linux machine post them for me. This is how I like to do things:<BR/><BR/>Create preview image with thumbnails of the videoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-1153342121734709232006-07-19T22:48:00.000+02:002006-07-19T22:48:00.000+02:00Thank-you, thank-you thank-you!!You've no idea how...Thank-you, thank-you thank-you!!<BR/><BR/>You've no idea how much googling I've done searching for how to use .par files in Linux until I stumbled across your blog!<BR/><BR/>Cat was failing me ~50% of the time, and your little par2 walkthrough works perfectly!<BR/><BR/>Many thanks once again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-1153240917851472872006-07-18T18:41:00.000+02:002006-07-18T18:41:00.000+02:00Good article. Will take a closer look at the mass...Good article. Will take a closer look at the mass repair script. Two things for those that read this later:<BR/>1. it's good posting form to use par2 -l to limit the size of the par2 files.<BR/>2. do not, do not do not make the par2 file against original file instead of the posted files (the rars or the split files). This has two benefits for the downloader: you can check the files you have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-1139147571806282202006-02-05T14:52:00.000+01:002006-02-05T14:52:00.000+01:00hmm the comment disappeared ?? wtf ??here's a copy...hmm the comment disappeared ?? wtf ??<BR/><BR/>here's a copy :<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/> Hi,<BR/><BR/>the mass-par2repair perl script is what i was looking for, thx!<BR/><BR/>Is there a possibility to set the usage of the cpu to 50 for example?<BR/><BR/>I am running ur script as a chrown job every hour on a vdr (video disk recorder).<BR/><BR/>When recording via 2 cards and cutting some advertisment tobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02958078050070178640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20063390.post-1139147130723589532006-02-05T14:45:00.000+01:002006-02-05T14:45:00.000+01:00Hi Christian,About the CPU usage to 50%, I don't k...Hi Christian,<BR/><BR/>About the CPU usage to 50%, I don't know if it's possible. You could change the priority or renice the process to 19 though, it will still use 100% of the CPU, but the other processes wil not be affected.<BR/>Unfortunately I don't know any Perl, so you can contact the author, his email is in the headers of the script.<BR/><BR/>Each time the script runs "par2" or "par2repairtobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02958078050070178640noreply@blogger.com