I subscribed to TekSavvy internet services before moving into my new apartment, not knowing how much they actually kicked ass! (Un)fortunately our super switched apts half way through the month after having my dry loop set up in the old apartment leaving us with a leeched wifi connection that was sketchy at best.
Today was pure shit so I decided to hit the subway and grab some KFC and find some alligator clips to mess with our demarkation box in our “bunker” (temporary apartment until ours is painted).
Got some clips and went one by one down the trunk until I found a loop with battery and 411 service – thank god no one heard me on their phone! Here’s a pic demonstrating tonights madness :
For some ridiculous reason I started from the bottom of the trunk… anyway the third last available selection happened to carry a DSL signal – Woohoo! Anyway I am celebrating my accomplishment with rum and a mess of downloads – hope you all enjoy your night, cheers!
PS : I am now enjoying unlimited bandwidth (avec MLPPP) at about 760 KB/s via usenet – Rod stewart playing all night!
You watched my “How to Download Movies in < 10 Minutes” post a while back and probably noticed I was using an Ubuntu flavoured distro and an application called “Pan”. Now Pan is wicket cool but don’t you think it would be nicer to pirate media from anywhere in the world at such rediculous speeds?
I thought it would be a tremendous idea so I went dumpster diving through the millions of sourceforge projects (not saying sourceforge projects belong in the trash) and found this gem of a web app that made me jump for joy.
It’s called Urd, and it’s sickening! – in a good way if that is possible. Anyway it is Pan on crack, for two reasons :
1. It groups NZB’s and all your fav alt.binaries.*
2. It parity checks and unrars for you!
3. It is 100% web goodness
4. It has an easy installation script!
I know thats four but I just couldn’t help myself. So get off your asses and install it on a decent linux box. No questions asked you will adore it to the max.
Here’s what you need :
* Somewhat fast computer (Mines a P3 – 512 – NFS 350 GB), this puppy extracts all the shit so you don’t have to!
* A newsgroup account (usually news.isp.com / your email creds) with either your ISP or even better – Giganews
* A bit of patience if your timid of the almighty Linux Shell
Git ‘r Dun!
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server php5-cli php5-mysql php-pear yydecode unrar par2 trickle cksfv subversion
sudo pear install net_socket net_nntp
I had to add some sid and etch repos to get everything installed through apt, just google the dependency the install script says you are missing, if you can’t figure this out – forget it.
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
cd /var/www/
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/urd/urd-0.4.tar.gz?modtime=1204990738&big_mirror=0
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data urd/
sudo chmod -R 755 urd/
Now you can start the installation by entering the website address (http://yourpihere/urd/install.php)
(Thanks Ubuntu Forums!) – Now stop wasting your time reading this rubbish and get crackin!
