[Nerd] Best usenet download ever

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Project2501

Veteran X
I downloaded a video in a set of rars (as usual) with a set of pars... And the genius who uploaded it included the extracted video in the parity set. Fantastic. Winner of the internets.

Thought I'd share

much love <3,

Project23094289347238942
 
JustinCase said:
explain this to non-virgins
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What should have happened:

1. Large 1gb file was compressed and split into 10 100mb.rar files
2. Uploader also created and uploaded 10 extra .par files (say, 5mb-20mb in size) which are used to recreate any missing .rar files that might have gotten corrupt during upload.
3. Everything uploaded to internet. (approx 1.2gb total)

What actually happened:
1. 1gb .rar file uploaded with a 1gb .par
2. Ppl wasted their time dling a large file twice. (approx 2gb instead of 1)
 
If you used newsleecher it wouldn't have downloaded the pars unless you needed them thus you wouldn't ever have this issue.
 
Raze1 said:
What should have happened:

1. Large 1gb file was compressed and split into 10 100mb.rar files
2. Uploader also created and uploaded 10 extra .par files (say, 5mb-20mb in size) which are used to recreate any missing .rar files that might have gotten corrupt during upload.
3. Everything uploaded to internet. (approx 1.2gb total)

What actually happened:
1. 1gb .rar file uploaded with a 1gb .par
2. Ppl wasted their time dling a large file twice. (approx 2gb instead of 1)
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Or the uncompressed video was included with the rars when the parity set was created. Which would mean that the parity set would then want to see the rars and the video when checking for errors. It wouldn't find the video of course since the download would only be the rars. So if there were errors in any of the rars, you would be fucked because there would not be enough pars to fix the rars and recreate the missing video.

Either way though, it's a total usenet noob move. Your version isn't much of a problem though unless you're on a craptastic ISP which actually watches your bandwidth usage.
 
CrazyTexan said:
If you used newsleecher it wouldn't have downloaded the pars unless you needed them thus you wouldn't ever have this issue.
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Yes, it would have because the par file would have been looking for a video file that wasn't downloaded and would keep downloading par files until it had enough blocks to make that file and then would make it.
 
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