Due to a lack of time, and the inclusion of RSS parsers in newer versions of Usenet clients, I've decided to stop development on NZBivo. Development hasn't really moved forward in quite some time anyway, so it's not really a shocking revelation so much as stating the obvious. If anyone feels there is still a reason to continue development of NZBivo, they're certainly more than welcome to take up the torch.
If you're looking for a good way to get your TV shows automagically, you may want to check out SABnzbd and http://tvnzbrss.com/ or http://tvbinz.net/.
Thanks again for all the comments and feedback. Happy TVing!
Unback from the Dead
08-Feb-10
Linus Torvalds is a programmer and has been known as an honest man. So when he finds something he likes he says so, without artifice, and that’s all it means. Torvalds is the person who created the ever popular open-source Linux kernel which forms the cornerstone of the Android operating system that runs the Google Nexus One alongside a host of operating systems, software and naturally, newsreaders.
Linus Torvalds, who had announced his creation of Linux on USENET newsgroups has proclaimed that the “Google Nexus One is a winner”. Unsurprisingly, the man who invented the most popular open source operating system in the world is a “happy camper” over the fact that this cellphone runs Linux. But Linux alone wasn’t enough to get Linus on board with the rest of the smartphone crazy 21rst century. His previous phones, in fact—the ones he mostly used to “play Galaga” on long flights—also had various versions of Linux, but lacked that certain spark.
After a week of using the new smartphone, Torvalds is now raving about the Google Android based Nexus One:
“I generally hate phones. They’re irritating and disturb you as you work or read or whatever – and a cell phone to me is just an opportunity to be irritated wherever you are,” Torvalds said in a blog post. “But I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner.”
Torvalds has owned a number of phones before, including Google’s G1 device and ‘one of the early China-only Motorola Linux phones’, but it took for Google to add multi-touch capabilities to the Nexus One before he finally broke down and bought one from the company’s web store. The device can run open-source software created for the Android device including a couple of newsreaders.
Google’s Android operating system used in the Nexus One is built atop a Linux foundation, but the applications typically don’t run on the Linux. Instead, as Android and Google related newsgroups discuss, they run atop Linux on a Java-like layer, Google’s Dalvik virtual machine and accompanying software libraries. Through that technology, another open source foundation, Mozilla, is working on a version of Firefox browser for Android. Recently, newsgroups had discussed rumors that Google was struggling with Nexus One sales, so an unsolicited celebrity endorsement such as this couldn’t have come at a better time.
‘I no longer feel like I’m dragging a phone with me “just in case”’ Linus Torvalds says, ‘… now I’m having a useful (and admittedly pretty good-looking) gadget instead. The fact you can use it as a phone too is kind of secondary.’
Read more about Linus Torvalds, Linux and the Google Android operating system on the largest forum on the planet, USENET newsgroups. Recently, Linux celebrated its 18th Birthday
SABnzbd 0.5.0 RC6 is released
07-Feb-10
SABnzbd 0.5.0 RC6 is available for download from SourceForge.net.
Changes:
- Add INI-only option “par2_multicore” to enable/disable par2-multicore
Fixes:
- Prevent crash in RSS due to odd characters
- Prevent deadlock in downloader when server is blocked
- Prevent deletion of par files of other sets in multi-set NZBs
- Incorrect job rename in SMPL skin on Windows
- INI-only option “no_penalties” to limit timeout penalties for non-optional servers to 1 minute
- HTTPS certificate paths should default to the admin_dir directive
- The second parameter of the user script should be the original NZB file name even when the job has been renamed.
- Show clear error message when RSS feed preview or force-download fails.
- Don’t warn about RSS reading problems when a scheduled scan is done.
- Ignore empty “username” and “apikey” parameters in nzbmatrix.com URLs and add stored values.
- Suppress authentication warning for API call “get_scripts” and “qstatus”. These are used by some external utilities to determine if username/password is required. Prevents a warning each time SABnzbd or the browser is started.
- Ignore read-only attributes of files in a RAR archive (Windows)
- Remove potential crash on OSX when handling corrupt par2 file
- Enable manual unblocking of permantly blocked servers
- Retry permanently blocked servers after 30 minutes (compensate for shoddy servers)
- INI-only option “folder_length_max” for trimming folder name size (default 128 for Windows, for others 256)
- Give unrar preference over rar when both installed on a Posix system
RC4 and RC5 were only released to our Test group.
BanlieURD 1.0.3
05-Feb-10
New release! And as you may infer from the title, there's support for the French language :D Many thanks to...
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Leechr: Notice about SD/HD content
04-Feb-10
Twitter
03-Feb-10
Leechr 0.4.8.2 released.
03-Feb-10
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01-Feb-10
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