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#49774 - 14/12/2001 20:03 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: smu]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31594
Loc: Seattle, WA
Yup, that was the situation my ISP was complaining about.
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#49775 - 15/12/2001 06:39 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: tfabris]
BartDG
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Registered: 20/05/2001
Posts: 2616
Loc: Bruges, Belgium
I just wanted to drive home the concept that one gets what one pays for, and you can't expect newsgroups to be freely available in an easy fashion.

Of course you're right. Really, I don't expect miracles. Though that link you provided of public newsservers comes pretty close!
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#49776 - 15/12/2001 07:16 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: smu]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
I'm not saying that it's not a massive amount of data, I'm just saying that because of the distributed nature of NNTP, the backbone usage is minimized. The backbone traffic should consists only of articles being shared between massive peers, which are fairly few. Any delivery to a customer's news server counts as standard delivered bandwidth, not backbone traffic, except in exceptional cases. But then, I'm just being a jerk and arguing semantics.
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#49777 - 15/12/2001 18:26 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: BartDG]
bonzi
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Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
I use news.cis.dfn.de
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#49778 - 15/12/2001 21:40 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: tfabris]
dionysus
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Registered: 16/06/1999
Posts: 1222
Loc: San Francisco, CA
...You have to wonder how much storage they're using for all their caching/news archives/etc...

I mean come-on - they're almost caching the entire internet right now:)
-mark
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#49779 - 17/12/2001 17:48 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: hybrid8]
iceweazel
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Registered: 26/11/2001
Posts: 91
Loc: the states
Holy (*&^% I jus found posts I made in the late 80s. bwahaha.
Boy were those the days. 2 posts every couple DAYS in most newsgroups. SIGH.

Ed
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#49780 - 18/12/2001 13:24 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: DWallach]
eternalsun
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Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
Ok, I had an Amiga 2000. Deringer 030, 8 megs of ram, 3 hard drives inside, and who knows how many other hop ups. Ok people, fess up.

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#49781 - 21/12/2001 16:52 Re: Are you a former Amiga fan? [Re: time]
Wire
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Registered: 11/09/2000
Posts: 143
Loc: Jylland, Denmark
Amiga believers rejoice ... but not too fast.

It woudl be a nice thought that the mast vajority of empeg owners are prior Amiga owners. But this is not the case it seems from your poll. Even though I have played a great deal of "SuperCar II", "Aliens" etc., I have never owned such machinery myself.

Unfornunately the world is not concentraced around a garage company named Commodore, and a computer called Amiga made infamous by being light years ahead of the competition.

I think the question should be formulated more closely like this:



Are you a "tinkerer"?
Only one choice allowed


Votes accepted starting: 27/06/2004 19:33
View the results of this poll.
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#49782 - 30/12/2001 18:19 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: hybrid8]
CommOri
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Registered: 30/12/2001
Posts: 83
Ugh...unfortunately my past continues to haunt me.

Being a huge hockey fan, I made an angry post many years ago that I THOUGHT was going to drift off into space as random noise. But nope!

Err, thanks Google :P

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#49783 - 30/12/2001 18:23 Re: Are you a former Amiga fan? [Re: time]
skritch
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Registered: 22/12/2001
Posts: 56
Loc: San Jose, CA
Hm. Why no A1200? Not only did I own one, I still do (bought it to replace the one I sold years ago). Even tracked down another Alfa Data crystal trackball, a VGA adapter, and lots of original software.

Now, if I could just find a DKB 030 or 040 and a dataflyer external IDE enclosure.

Oh, and all the BlazeMonger products. :)
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#49784 - 30/12/2001 18:25 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: eternalsun]
jdandrea
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Registered: 07/11/2001
Posts: 188
Loc: New Jersey
Didn't The Weather Channel's local forecasts run off an Amiga for a while?
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#49785 - 30/12/2001 18:38 Re: Google's 20 year archive of foot-in-mouth [Re: jdandrea]
skritch
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Registered: 22/12/2001
Posts: 56
Loc: San Jose, CA
Yep. And many cable programming guides did as well. You can still catch them sitting on a guru meditation every now and then.
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#49786 - 30/12/2001 21:50 Re: Are you a former Amiga fan? [Re: skritch]
hybrid8
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Registered: 12/11/2001
Posts: 7738
Loc: Toronto, CANADA
Blazemonger.. Haha.. Dan Barett, right?

Bruno
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#49787 - 30/12/2001 23:05 Re: Are you a former Amiga fan? [Re: hybrid8]
skritch
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Registered: 22/12/2001
Posts: 56
Loc: San Jose, CA
Yep. He's still around doing interesting things, IIRC. I think I actually ran across him on one of the dev lists for the new Linux-based Zaurus, in fact.
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#49788 - 30/12/2001 23:50 Re: Are you a former Amiga fan? [Re: skritch]
hybrid8
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Registered: 12/11/2001
Posts: 7738
Loc: Toronto, CANADA
And I pulled his name from memory too. :) Of course also remember the "other" Barrett (no relation), Mark. Oh boy, ugh what an arse. :)

Next thing you know we'll have Dave Hanie in here posting (I actually bumped into him on the digicam newsgroup late last year or earlier this year).

Bruno
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