Re: leafnode help please !

On 2007-03-15, DG1 <dashen.govender@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers, there's alot of people & myself downloading stuff from the
news server at the slow speeds but if you wanna see what other people
have downloaded which will be available at faster speeds, its worth
it.

Please quote the relevant text from the article you are replying to, so
that people can see your response in context; this is a newsgroup, not a
web forum :))

The custom is to have a > at the start of each line from the previous post
that you are quoting in yours, and to leave a blank line between the end
of quoted text and the start of what you are typing.

The Google Groups web interface for newsgroups, which you are using,
'quotes' the whole of the article you are replying to, so all you have to
do is to delete the parts that aren't needed for your reply to make sense.
If you want to insert some words of your own in the middle of the quoted
text from the previous article, you can move your 'typing cursor' to the
appropriate point and hit return twice to insert a blank line at that
point, then hit return again to get a new line where you can start typing.
When you've finished that part of your reply, hit return again to get an
empty line between the end of your words and the place where the next
portion of the previous article is 'quoted'.

You should not type anything in a new message on a line that starts with
a > as it will then look as though what you are typing is part of the
previous message that you are replying to.

Most people do not use Google Groups to read and post in newsgroups, and
do not see the articles displayed in the way that Google does it.


Unix is so difficult, try to install one thing & it says something
else is missing or an error i do not understand.

But ill keep trying, if anyone has an easier solution, please post it !

The bits of Unix that you have on your Mac are only those parts needed to
make OS X as a whole, function. The Unix you have is not designed for use
as a self-contained 'operating system' so the tools for doing that are
probably lacking - along with other components which would normally be
installed already on a 'real' Unix or Linux system. So using it without
using the proprietary Apple Mac software is likely to be somewhat
frustrating, particularly if you aren't already comfortable with a
bare-bones Unix environment.

I believe that OS X can be used to run a 'virtual machine'; I suggest you
look into that and install one of the popular beginner-friendly Linux
distros on that VM so that you can have both OS X and Linux programs
running side by side at the same time.

However, that doesn't help you to discover what, if any, indication there
might be on your NSP's server to distinguish between locally cached
articles and articles that are listed but not yet cached locally. Only
your NSP can tell you that (or possibly a customer of theirs who can get
away with poking around via SSH or telnet to see what they can discover
about the file structure on the server).

Another approach might be to get other users of that server to contribute
to a web-site or mailing-list where they list the articles they have
downloaded. That would take a fair bit of care to organise and maintain -
and of course the lists will always be out-of-date and 'incomplete', and
searching them will save little or no time compared with just fetching
the articles you want straight from the server and putting up with the
time it takes some of them to arrive. You would also be relying on other
people to take the time and effort to add their information to the lists.

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