Jan 20, 2008 I would also like to see early version of Powerpost 2000 for Usenet posting. The graphical interface was complete, the later versions based on Chris's original code we not as nice, but I have never located a decent Usenet posting program for Linux that has a GUI.
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I've used various iterations of Powerpost for many years and have finally stumbled upon JBinUp.It is so much better than Powerpost.Why? Three main reasons: SSL, and header check. And loads more connectionsHeader check is superb. It doesn't behave quite how I'd like, so I've adapted. I've split my posting server in two between EU and US.
EU posts, and having done so I manually specify a header check and US checks and EU fills.I tried having a single server post and check but my feeling was that it was easy for posting to grind to a halt as connections that should be posting went into a loop of checking.So manually specifying header checks on a different server works for me. And this is where increased connections is a serious bonus. For header checking, I have 20 connections open to the server - 10 to US for checking, 10 to EU for filling.My posting server is, er, not the best, and drops loads of posts.
Header checking forces it to repost.I've only been testing JBinUp for a week and have posted maybe 55GB; my largest post was about 25GB. Posting 25GB in Powerpost would be a nightmare - manually finding missing sections and reposting them is not a great deal of fun. Using header check in JBinUp, my 25GB post was filled in about half an hour.So. Seriously recommended. If you use Powerpost, switch.
If you don't post: post.And JBinUp is gui. Maybe nyuu is better - I don't know; I'm crap at cmd line - I like pointy clicky. Hi.As a developer of i can tell you, that even when the server returns 240 some articles get lostWhat you need to do, is to download the headers (hence the header check name). You can do this in several ways, one of those is to download the article again, but it wouldn't be very efficient. So it only downloads the message-ID.
You can also use the ihave command, or the head (this will download the full header) command for this purpose.Please also note that sometimes the servers will take some time to make the article available, so if you check if the header was uploaded immediately after posting, it will fail. Ah, great info.Right now my uploader checks at the other end of the chain. When it has been successfully indexed on an index and reposts if it is not found after X time. (default 4 hrs)Now, when you say some time, is this 5 seconds, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours?Because I could have the check in the posting thread, but this will obviously delay the 'posting is complete' message by the time it takes to check the last uploaded message. This thread has however all individual message parts and could repost a single message if required.If it takes too long I could perform the check in the verification thread which runs async 'somewhere after the upload has been marked finished' but this thread right now does not have enough info to post individual message parts, but just marks the entire file as 'needs reuploading'Suggestions welcome.
The most optimal approach is to run the check asynchronously alongside posting. This minimises the additional time needed for checking, and also minimises the number of reposts needed, and can also be more efficient for the system (e.g. You can cache posts in memory to avoid disk reads for reposting).If you're processing multiple jobs, the next job should start whilst the previous job is still being checked.Of course, this may be complex to code up, so it really depends on what you're willing to do. Doesn't that depend on how connections are allocated?What I'd like would be to be able to specify 4 connections for uploading, and 10 each for header check and reposting.Here, in JBinUp, if I try to run header check at the same time as posting, everything grinds to a halt cos my posting connections are hijacked.So as I mentioned above, I split my server in two and manually initiate a header check after the post has completed.Not really the behaviour I'd like, but a substantial step up from reposting with Powerpost. Doesn't that depend on how connections are allocated?I'm sorry i'm not understanding your question.Do you mean the time the articles are available for header check?
It depends on the server. Usually depends on the server load, storage capabilities. You have to ask someone who manages a server to be more specific in the causes that makes the articles available sooner or not. The number of connections doesn't have any effect on the article speed availability (or at least it shouldn't).You should have more connections for uploading than connections for headerchecking. The upload requires more bandwidth than the headercheck, so that's where you should put more connections. But you shouldn't use all the available connections to post.
You should only use the connections that max your upload speed. Otherwise it will create overhead.
And how does it verify? Just check if the messages are there? Or a full redownload?Don't know. It doesn't download.I am just wondering how messages can get 'lost' this way.Messages have always got lost. Thats why we have par files.
Some servers are better than others at not losing.Unless you are checking server propagation issues (which in my personal experience tends to happen with astraweb as posting target) and you use a different back-end to verify.But then you have to take propagation delay into account as well, so when do you decide that propagation has failed, or when do you wait a bit longer? (not a direct question to you by the way, just thinking out loud a bit)When I post, I always check propagation. I download headers in Agent using a different backbone.
I expect propagation to be almost instant. If it isn't, I give it very little time before reposting. In Powerpost reposting is a real PITA. In JBinUp, I assume that fixing a propagation issue is as simple as running a header check/repost with a provider on a different backbone. It's kind of funny that this discontinued java-based software appears to be best GUI one even today.
I tried some commandline ones, but failed to make Nyuu and a bunch of others work on MacBook, both natively and even on Linux VMs (they seem to target primarily Linux systems), so for the first time in memory I was too dumb to use a piece of software (that didn't require actual coding knowledge, like IDEs). Hard to admit for me, but true.If you're going to use JBinUp in a non-windows system you have to extract the.jar from the exe with 7zip or some equivalent.On the Mac it failed to run with java 8 (or 9 for that matter) no matter what I did, but worked with 6.As an aside, I remember it took more work to find this damn file than I would reasonably expect from any such software, don't know what's up with that. Hey.I sure took my sweet time to reply to this one, but I still feel it would be proper to give you some follow up here.The major reason I took this long was that I haven't posted anything to Usenet since, and didn't clearly remember whatever was the issue. Besides my first impression of Nyuu was that it was somehow overly complicated (in which I now believe I was wrong).
Perhaps this was because the dev people tell you all that stuff about little options and if my memory serves me even had their 'standard' command setup posted, the one they actually used, that was incredibly long and made it seem so complicated. That said, back then Nyuu already provided a second 'readme', with just the essentials.Well, I tried it again. Turns out it worked without any hurdle or frustration. I must say it seems indeed noticeably speedier than jbinup. My speeds are really modest here, but in any case it seemed like a significant improvement.I'm not sure what changed: maybe I'm less clumsy nowadays with CLI utilities, or maybe something with my system (since then in an unfortunate and somewhat unexplained incident my MBP's start disk was corrupted, which made me wipe it completely, so I guess I'll never know if there was something, if anything, wrong with the system setup). Or maybe it was Nyuu itself.
Who knows.After retrying it, my new impression is that Nyuu is actually quite streamlined and simple. There is nothing particularly confusing about the github page. I followed the advice to install ('npm install -g nyuu') and that was it.If it's of any use to you at all, the trouble I was having with it, and any other CLI tool I got to work, was that whenever I got to actual posting, SSL or not, I could only get them as far as the progress prompt, which hanged at the upload speed of zero, forever. I did some fair bit of fiddling and all but that was it. Since the same happened to other clients, my best guess is something with my old setup; I'll never know.
I suspected that much even back then, but then why did Jbinup work anyway? Not sure if you ever saw this situation with upload speed stuck at zero, but anyhow it was what I got.Thanks for the interest. I was glad to retry it and getting it to work finally. Makes me feel less dumb, you know.Again, in fairness it was not difficult at all to set it up this time. I have some vague impression that the Github page seemed more clear and concise this time around, and the mantainer seems to have done away with their personal usage sample, which might have been for the best and perhaps a source of confusion to users in the past despite the warnings that it was specific to them and all that.
Mac Powerpoint Equivalent
Friday 1st May 2009
I have to make a presentation (like a powerpoint on a PC) on a Macbook. I am a total Macbook novice, have no idea what anything is, even the most basic things. So, can anyone tell me what the Mac equivalent of powerpoint is, how to use it, etc?? Thanks!
Friday 1st May 2009
OpenOffice is a Mac (and PC) free package that does what the M$ stuff does. Works well - if you can use M$Office, it's pretty similar
Friday 1st May 2009
If you have it (it doesn't come as standard) the Mac equivalent is called 'keynote' and excellent it is too. If you've ever used Powerpoint it should be fairly intuitive, but Keynote just does graphics and graphs a bit better than PPT, certainly the 2003 version.
Go to the search box in the top right hand corner of the screen, type Keynote and see what comes up. Either that or have a look in applications.
Friday 1st May 2009
Microsoft are the biggest Mac software vendor (outside of Apple). So if you want Powerpoint, buy Microsoft Office for Mac. It's that easy, and the vast majority of Windows Office files will work on Mac Office (don't get me started on programmability though in Excel...)
The obvious alternative is Apple's iWork suite. It's around £69, which is cheaper than Microsoft's Office (which I paid around £350 for... though if you play fast and loose with 'academic requirements' then you can get the 'Student and Teacher Edition' for £100 which does the same thing). Out of Apple's applications, Pages (word processor) is powerful but a different paradigm to Word. Numbers (spreadsheet) looks pretty but isn't anywhere near as powerful as Excel (disclosure - Excel pays a lot of my bills). However, the presentation software, Keynote, is at least as good as Powerpoint if not better. Teh Steve uses it for all his keynotes, hence the name. It takes the fight to Microsoft - try it out. You can get trial versions of both Microsoft's Office and Apple's iWork. Both cost money, though you can always pirate the packages (beware of trojans...) - the only sensible free office suite IIRC is OpenOffice (and the OS X prettified versions), but I can't advise on OO's presentation suite. Perhaps the Linux lads can chip in? For my money, for presentations that don't essentially have to be PPT files (Keynote is compatible with Powerpoint but don't expect Windows users to do much with Keynote files - you'll need to export as Powerpoint to share the document), I'd use Keynote. Try it out, compare to Powerpoint, see what you think.
Friday 1st May 2009
Dont forget the Google Docs powerpointalike. Basic, but quite effective, and finally has Speaker Notes.
Friday 1st May 2009
Thanks everyone for the advice . There was a 30 day free trial of Keynote, and since I will only be using it over the next week for one presentation, that seemed like the best idea. It is downloading now. The presentation is about cars, and status anxiety and things, and I needed to do a narration with it, and I was taught how to do that all on a Mac at school, so I really only know how to do it that way!
Friday 1st May 2009
As someone who works in the industry of running conferences and events, I would second Keynote as being superior to Powerpoint - problem is that most events won't have a Mac available for the presentation (I'm talking bigger events here where the AV control is handled by the technicians at the back of the room rather than a speaker plugging his own laptop into a projector at the front of the room.)
At our events, i would prefer to use Keynote..... but most speakers will arrive with a memory stick with their PowerPoint presentation on, about five minutes before they are on stage (Despite being given a deadline of a week earlier to provide their presentation!)
Saturday 2nd May 2009
As with one of the posters above, we recently put on a large public meeting with external speakers. One of them had prepared his slides on Keynote, and it was a bit of a pain in the arse. We couldn't export to Powerpoint, there wasn't time to rewrite his slides, and his Mac wouldn't work (quelle surprise) with the remote slide-advancing gadget. In the end, we had his Macbook Air sitting with the techs at the back of the room, plugged in to the presentation hardware, and one of them had to manually advance the slides when she got the signal.And for what? The only 'benefit' I could see was some funkier transitions, which (in the context of the meeting) pissed me off anyway. Much as we might rightly knock Microsoft, one huge benefit of their domination is a relative level of compatibility between business computers across the whole world.
The presentation is about... ...status anxiety and things
And you're presenting from a Mac?
Saturday 2nd May 2009
Keynote is well worth getting too know - very easy to create good presentations with bugger all knowledge of such things in my experience.
Haven't tried it, but I presume the modern range of laptops can use the generic apple remote to control slides, as well as the latest version of Keynote working with an 'App' that allows remote control via iPhone across the network. As with all presentations - less is more, resist the temptation of stuffing in too many fancy effects, concentrate on the content instead.
Saturday 2nd May 2009
Keynote is superb, better graphics etc. Where it really excels is the interface for the presenter when running on two screens. Presenter screen gives all of the key information to be able to present smoothly and professionally. The company I work for use PowerPoint, and we do lots of bids for work etc. However, I use Keynote, I demonstrated it to on of the bid team this week, there were really impressed!
Tony
Saturday 2nd May 2009
I use Keynote almost every day in my job.
Just the plainest of plain slides. Mainly black text on a white background (albeit with a few stylist ques) and no animation (unless it's to make a specific point). Why? The mac renders fonts *beautifully*, plus the editor's so much better than PowerPoint. The alignment hints help you throw something together really quickly that always seems to wind up looking good. Plus, recording the presentation audio and sequence and dumping the lot into iMovie for editing and subsequently further dumping on the web is a really smooth workflow (although in iWork 09 they've added a VU meter that you can't seem to get rid of - looks somewhat odd when actually making the presentation to the physical audience).
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