Spudz777 said:While I'm grateful for the offer (truly I am), I don't find usenet difficult, confusing, or intimidating in any way. I find it annoying. I have the same problem with usenet as I would have with trying to pull something of this magnitude from Rapidshare. I wind up with dozens or hundreds of files (this latest AVCHD post has, what, 179 parts from binsearch?) that form basically a single archive which I then have to extract, essentially doubling the space required. With a torrent, I start the torrent, walk away, and when I check back, I have the iso. No repairing of files, no waiting for a 7+ GB file extraction, just burn the image. Seeding doesn't bother me, I tend to leave stuff seeding for long periods of time. In fact, I'm still seeding Adywan's first AVCHD release (which I originally downloaded from usenet). The simple fact is, I don't like usenet. I've tried it, gave it a fair shot, and don't like it.
Again, I'm grateful for the offer of help, but as stated earlier, it's not an issue with difficulty. Usenet is a last resort for me on this one. I'll take -1's advice and wait for a bit...
i would be the last person to defend newsgroups, or all the hassle...
but the thing is.....yes, you will need double the disk space, but unless you have a
very small harddrive, an extra 9 or 10 gigs shouldn't kill you (even temporarily)..
and also, there is an option in some of those newsgroup programs, where it unrars
it for you to an .ISO (i don't know if it checks the par file first, but it could).....
so again, it could be pretty automated..
and about the waiting time for all this stuff,
unless you have a slow computer, the time it
takes to do all this and burn it, you should still be
able to use your computer for other things, so it's
not totally tied up...(at least for me)... once again
you're going to have to burn the iso anyways, so whats
the harm in watiing a little bit longer for the other stuff?
i'm not trying to change your mind... but i just wanted to point out a few things,
in case others are wondering the same thing...
yes, this is a last resort, but since my computers on 24/7, and i don't have any download
limits, i don't mind using it..
also, about rapidshare, if you have a premium account, you can automate downloading
from that too, with their own program, or an opensource program called jdownloader
which gets all the files, checks them, and unrars them for you, so it's not painfull at
all.. in fact i prefer that to torrents, because i can max out my speed connection that
way...
to each their own..
later
-1