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B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Mister Fister posted:

Schedule your sabnzbd activity when you're sleeping? That's what i do... i have it set from 1 am to 7 am only.

Or combine both. The sabnzbd scheduling can bump the speed down to something during the day (I would recommend leaving at least 5mbps), and then have it go unlimited at night. Since sab is the only thing that really saturates my connection, this is easier than screwing around with shaping at the router.

# ¿ May 28, 2011 21:16

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# ¿ May 1, 2024 02:16

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

The Modern Leper posted:

I sometimes wonder if anyone at Microsoft actually uses UAC. I turned it off for administrator accounts and have all my Usenet programs built into Task Scheduler in the event of an overnight Windows Update or something.

It's probably their way of manhandling everyone into using Windows Services, which aren't restricted in that way. Doesn't help for the other supporting programs, but I'd recommend people take the time to install SabNZBd as a service -- it seems to be more reliable. Install the helper thingy first, it may cry otherwise.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2011 04:00

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

wolrah posted:

It's not manhandling, it's just bringing Windows in to line with the rest of the OS selection. Users don't write outside of their user folder without permission.

What? If the task is scheduled as an administrator (elevated), and the task set to run under that account (elevation), it should do it. I've had strange issues with this in the past as well, so I assumed that example was the same.

SrvAny should be made into an easier to use tool for apps that aren't written to install as services.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2011 02:26

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

inpheaux posted:

It's apparently actually happening.

That actually saddens me quite a bit. I'm a manual (non sickbeard) kind of guy, and I always liked the one-click top-nzbs of the day feature. I usually use the Matrix anyway, so I guess I'll have to configure some searches.

BTW, with all this ISP piracy talk, it's worth noting that Matrix and nzbs.org support https, it just isn't the default. Probably a good idea to make sure your nzbs and newgroup servers are all SSL if they aren't already.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2012 01:25

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Shagsta posted:

Also, a while back I remember reading that Giganews is doing DMCA takedowns. Is this true?

If Giganews is out of favour, I guess I'll probably go with the $96/year Astraweb deal...

Yep. I guess because of their size/prevalence, Giga, and the dependents, seem to DMCA very quickly when the rights owner asserts it.

I'm thinking of doing a block plan on Astra to fix those issues, as many of the nzb site comments indicate no issues with downloads that have been removed from the Giga feed.

edit: Check out the comments on either nzbs.org or nzbmatrix to see if anything you would d/l is 'high profile'.

# ¿ May 30, 2012 02:48

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:

I've read they always work so long as the plugs are on the same mains ring - I've no idea what this means or how you check it, though.

I can explain it based on my workings with the X10 system (similar concept) in the US. Your house is fed 3 wires from a power transformer in the following configuration:

code:

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|         |           |
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Hot -120- Neutral -120- Hot

Between the neutral (center tap) and either of the ends (hot) you have your typical outlet of 120v. Some high power appliances like dryers or oven use the 2 hots (no neutral) to get a combined 240V. The problem is, on any given outlet, you may be on the left 120v circuit or the right one. Effectively, the two circuits are isolated from each other and the signals put out by the Powerline device. Problem is, it can be random as to how the house is wired. One would expect whole rooms to be on the same branch, but it doesn't necessarily follow.

X10 sells adapters that can bridge the 2 circuits at a 240v appliance (dryer) and cross the signal over. I don't know if PL adapters have these bridges available, however.

edit: one way to check might be to see what breakers are on which side of the panel. If your electrician wasn't high on meth, the breakers are usually split on the two sides for the two circuits giving you a rough idea of the layout.

B-Nasty fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Nov 12, 2012

# ¿ Nov 12, 2012 16:43

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Had to change about 25 rss feeds over to nzbs.org from the 'matrix, so that was annoying. Glad I had that and a .su account to fall back on.

I wonder if all the DMCA stuff will drive Usenet posts to some form of encryption/GUID-based configuration where you'll need to be on a private website to get the nfos and password. I assume this goes on now, but I haven't downloaded headers since I was using Grabit on Verizon's servers (with awesome 45 day retention.)

# ¿ Dec 10, 2012 01:58

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Some content seems to be surviving the DMCA takedowns for longer now. I wonder if it's true that some of the copyright cops were just using 'matrix/matrix apis for their barrage.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2012 03:25

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Telex posted:

anyone know if it's possible to set up an RSS feed type thing with newznab like you could do back in the day with nzbs.org before they disabled it and nzbmatrix before it died?

I had a few custom searches set up and I really miss them. Totally want to re-do them if I've got full reign to ruin my own CPU.

You can still do RSS feeds with nzbs.org and .su through the API interface. My SAB autodownloads from about 30 custom searches in RSS.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2012 02:36

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

I don't remember seeing this link in this thread, but this site: http://usenetreviewz.com/nzb-sites/ has a fairly up-to-date listing of the current state of indexers/search engines. The biggest downside to many of these is the lack of a decent community/comments, a problem that may be better solved with the Goon project. Never a bad idea to register with some of the open ones to diversify yo nzbs as the tides of change continue to shift.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2013 03:04

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

daishan14 posted:

Does anyone have some tips for setting up nzbs.org with sabnzbd? Ever since they switched to the new format a while ago the sab button doesn't work and I have to manually download the nzb. I tried setting it up but I am missing something.

Is this worth doing (serious question)? I'm super lazy/anal and just download with the nzbStatus FF plugin. I don't even bother with SickBeard/Drone, but the My Shows feature on nzbs.org I couldn't live without. I haven't found all releases to be in HD/SD evenly, so I wouldn't want to automate on only one choice.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2013 03:20

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

fivre posted:

Also directs nzbs to sabnzbd, though this may work regardless.

Which is worth its weight in gold if you run SAB on another machine (server.) On one box, meh, doesn't much matter.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2013 17:35

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

BrosephofArimathea posted:

heads up, brothers - signups are open.

Awesome. It looks pretty nice; I've never used it before.

If I have nzbs.org, do people think it's worth the :10bux:

to keep dognzb? I'm always concerned that nzbs.org might close, but I'm feeling especially cheap right now.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2013 01:54

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

dzarc posted:

So lately when I click on the button that initiates a download, the nzb file is also downloaded. It didn't used to do that. Did something happen?

Assuming you're using one of the FF/Chrome SAB plugins, it could just be screwed up. Mine would do that on occasion after not closing the browser for a long while or resuming from sleep. Try closing browser (verify/kill in task manager) and reopen. If that doesn't work, disable/re-enable or re-install the plugin. Usually just closing the browser fixes it for me.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2014 01:42

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

I've had good luck using a search-based RSS feed for, um, things that are policed heavily. I think I have the refresh at like 15 minutes, so it tends to get it before it's DMCA'd. Of course, I'll get some stuff I don't want, but with an always on server and no bandwidth quota/unlimited DL NG provider, I'm cool with it.

# ¿ May 24, 2014 01:35

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Even if it were the case that the FBI haz your IPz, I don't see why it matters. As far as I remember, the only copyright cases were brought against people uploading, knowingly or not (torrents), as the penalties are much higher and easier to prove. Going after downloaders that aren't re-sharing, is not worth it.

Unless you're downloading kiddie porn, and in that case, gently caress you anyway.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2014 21:58

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Death Vomit Wizard posted:

$55 for a 2TB block at newsgroupdirect.com today.

Highwinds reseller w/ SSL. I got my last block almost 3 years ago and find them fast/ reliable.

Doubling the thanks. This offer still has about 3hrs left as of this post.

I checked my stats for Supernews and realized I was less than 2000GB a year, so this plan will save me $45 for the year. I'll have to remember to look for deals next Black Friday as well.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2014 03:19

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

visuvius posted:

Wow Sonarr is really nice. I should have ditched the Sabnzbd RSS thing long ago.

You sound like me. I just set Sonarr up 2 days ago to move away from my manual checking of 'My Shows' in nzbs.org. At least this way, I have my show list locally if a meteor hits nzbs.org.

Much like your question implies, I don't keep most shows around on my harddrive once I watched them, and Sonarr kinda leans away from that workflow, but it seems to work well as a new show downloaded regardless.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2015 16:08

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Godinster posted:

If you need a block account, NGD has 1TB blocks for $35 for the rest of the day. Might be good if you're using Supernews, Astraweb or another non-Highwinds as your primary.

https://www.newsgroupdirect.com/black-friday

They did 2TB for $55 last (actual) Black Friday, as a reference. I should probably jump on this though, as my usage was only about 800GB for the year.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2015 23:51

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

For any other Sonarr noobs, make sure you go into Season Pass and turn off the old seasons. I use it only as a new episode downloader and recently got 5 old seasons X 20 episodes when someone posted them.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2015 03:35

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Anyone using the new .8 beta version of SABnzbd? I started adding more backup block servers and really want to use the new priority features. I was wondering if there were any issues with it before I made the upgrade.

I should probably switch to NZBGet at this point, but that would probably take an hour or two to migrate settings/rss/connected apps, and I'm a lazy rear end in a top hat.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2016 16:36

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Boris Galerkin posted:

Anyone have experience using a dedicated server to handle all the downloading and streaming (via say Plex)? Basically how powerful of a CPU do I need to do this assuming it's just one user and one concurrent stream/device at a time?

You don't need a very powerful CPU at all. The fact that people do these functions on anemic NAS boxes like the Synology attest to that.

That said, transcoding in Plex is going to be the biggest factor. They have some guidelines here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201774043-What-kind-of-CPU-do-I-need-for-my-Server- Basically, any CPU made in the last 3 years will be fine, and you could probably build a new box to do it (excluding storage) for less than $350.

# ¿ May 6, 2016 13:56

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

bigis posted:

loving hell. Is there anyway to prevent my backup block account getting smashed if my primary (Astraweb) goes down? I'm assuming that's what happened as nzbget shows huge spikes on two specific days.

In NZBGet, it doesn't appear so. I would really like better controls for server processing as well. Maybe something that allows jobs to be paused if they result in pulling more than X MB/GB from a particular server. I've had certain jobs pull largely from my (more expensive) backups, when I probably would've just canceled it if I knew that.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 15:04

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:

Last night I signed up for their free trial, and they seem solid. Fast, good retention and pricing.

I just got an email from them with a promo code (VAL2017) for 30% off. It brought a 500GB block down to $11.50, which should last me like half a year if my download history is any indication.

I also couldn't pass up 500GB for $10.50 USD as a backup server.

FWIW, I just downloaded a popular, uh, Linux ISO DVD "preview" that fell over from my primary to Usenet.Farm for 100% of the articles. I saw D/L speeds at about 1/2 (4-5MB/s) of what I get from a US-based provider (10-11MB/s.)

# ¿ Feb 10, 2017 15:44

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Violator posted:

What are people typically spending a month for Usenet? I'm paying $19 for an old Giganews account with 50 connection and unlimited access, but I see everyone else with fallback accounts, multiple providers, etc.

I determined that my usage pattern made more sense for me to use block plans instead of 'unlimited'. Even with multiple block accounts, my cost is probably <$10/month. Of course, there's an initial investment where you buy $50 here, $20 there, etc., but I'm always surprised when I check and see that I have quite a bit left on each account.

I try to time my purchases to center around Black Friday/Cyber Monday, when many of the Usenet block accounts go on mega sale.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2017 15:36

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

Horse Clocks posted:

Am I doing something wrong? Or have takedowns stepped up their game recently?

I've certainly been seeing this. Certain networks usually take down all of their shows, and usually within 24 hours. Searching for anything older than a few days on Usenet has become pretty pointless.

The other thing I noticed is that when something is removed, all its blocks are gone. It used to be that a DMCA'd item would only remove say 5% of it, which could be filled in from a backup. Now, 100% comes from the backup, if they still have it.

When my blocks accounts run out, I'll probably use that money for a VPN subscription and get back in the torrent game.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2017 12:24

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# ¿ May 1, 2024 02:16

B-Nasty: May 25, 2005

sedative posted:

In completely related news, UsenetServer is now offering the $20 yearly unlimited deal https://accounts.usenetserver.com/register/?step=p&promo=exclusive-usenet-deal&rate=107

I've been using block accounts for a while, because I'm not a super heavy downloader, but what's the catch here? That seems like a ridiculously cheap price for 'unlimited'.

Is their search any good, or is it basically binsearch?

# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 13:19

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