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[The Natural Philosopher]

course it is, but it requires a real programmer, and I am busy at the moment

[The Natural Philosopher]

Its a bit like writing the theory of relativity in welsh, I know.

MUMPS is a communicable disease

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[Andy Burns]

Downloads and boots (a cut down) Linux within Firefox in under 30 seconds for me ...

[Huge]

A newsreader written in Javascript?

[geoff]

I don't suppose that adding [e-mail] and [e-mail] makes much difference since I now spend considerably less time in here

[Theo Markettos]

I don't know Richard's source for his graph for sure, but I'm fairly confident it's text-only.

Maybe it was back in the day. But now I think you could run a primary text-only node off your home broadband connection without bothering the 'fair use' policy. Internet bandwidth and storage capacity has shot up and Usenet traffic has shot down. If the stats are 30MB/day of the main hierarchies, storage is the least of your worries.

Today, of course, binaries on Usenet will completely overwhelm any infrastructure that is foolish enough to take them...

Theo

[Graham Thurlwell]

There has been a RISC OS port of Doom for five, maybe even ten years. That runs on ARM. See

for example. There are even ports of Quake, Syndicate and Descent from among other people.

Games have been ported from PC (and before that Amiga, ST etc.) to ARM-powered computers since the late eighties. They've even been ported the other way round.

What you can actually run on the Pi depends on what OS you're using. It's possible that a good number of the RISC OS ports will work on the Pi.

The real question is whether 'ArcElite' will run.

[John Rumm]

There comes a point though were you beat it to death with enough horsepower, and it goes as quick as the real thing used to...

"The emulated hardware includes a 32-bit x86 compatible CPU, a 8259 programmable interrupt controller, a 8254 programmable interrupt timer, and a 16450 UART (universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter). According to Bellard, the emulated CPU is comparable to an Intel 486 chip, though it does not include a floating point unit. Bellard was able to emulate a floating point unit, however, using the Linux kernel.

Bellard believes his emulator could be used for client-side cryptographic processing. Or ? if you're looking for a more serious pursuit ? he also points out it could eventually let you play old DOS games."

[John Rumm]

Its the top ten list of all time posters to this group since its inception. (email addresses as cited in the posts - but in a slight obfuscated form).

But you clocked up 21k+ posts using it, in addition to the 16k on the current one.

[Theo Markettos]

I'd quite like to see a newsreader in AJAX - with the fluidity of gmail but for Usenet. What Google Groups would be if Google actually cared (and knew something about Usenet).

Theo

[Eric]

Really ? So how can a news service offer nearly a 1,000 days of binary retention, when 10 years ago it was a struggle to get a week?

[Dave Liquorice]

AOL!

[Dave Liquorice]

Discs have fallen in price and increased in size quite a bit in ten years. The HD in this machine is about ten years old at the time is was a massive (and expensive SCSI) 1 GB, that is one gigabyte. These days it's common to find basic machines with 1,000 GB (1 TB) drives.

There was a recent thread about the traffic volume of usenet recently, was it in here? The text traffic is a pimple on the bum of the binaries. ISTR that text was only about 250 MB/day, so a 1 TB drive will hold of the order of 4,000 days or 10 years ish...

[Bob Eager]

The other factor is that file system design has improved, and now scales reasonably.

[Owain]

Totalling the figures up for each year and comparing with the total for the previous year gives

1997 14541 131.3% 1998 24379 167.7% 1999 33168 136.1% 2000 34894 105.2% 2001 46839 134.2% 2002 60738 129.7% 2003 89165 146.8% 2004 111777 125.4% 2005 116103 103.9% 2006 119900 103.3% 2007 86737 72.3% 2008 87441 100.8% 2009 76629 87.6% 2010 76066 99.3% 2011 77281 101.6% 2012 95225 123.2%

so UK DIY has been increasing every year apart from 2007, 08 and (just) 2010.

I can't think how many email addresses or usernames I've had on Usenet, I used to change them frequently to prevent spam before decent spam filtering came in, so that will skew my posting stats (and probably most others).

Comparative stats for uk.railway:

2000 84744 100.3% 2001 83938 99.0% 2002 78714 93.8% 2003 90027 114.4% 2004 99529 110.6% 2005 81231 81.6% 2006 80928 99.6% 2007 94280 116.5% 2008 81578 86.5% 2009 79299 97.2% 2010 72436 91.3% 2011 66383 91.6% 2012 56653 85.3%

And for uk.telecom:

1997 36887 114.3% 1998 53241 144.3% 1999 64073 120.3% 2000 41765 65.2% 2001 26685 63.9% 2002 21778 81.6% 2003 17564 80.7% 2004 20740 118.1% 2005 19888 95.9% 2006 13485 67.8% 2007 9780 72.5% 2008 6500 66.5% 2009 5035 77.5% 2010 4207 83.6% 2011 3112 74.0% 2012 2438 78.3%

which has been getting less popular every year since 2004 :-( Although I suppose one should bring in the uk.telecom.* posts as well

Owain

[John Williamson]

I wonder what caused the peak on all the groups in 2004? I know it wasn't me, I was out of the country a lot of the time.

[polygonum]

Doesn't that correspond with broadband becoming much more widely available?

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , John Rumm escribió:

Yes, JPC

[Andy Burns]

No that's java, not javascript, the link to

which you removed *is* javascript

[Huge]

Oh, me too. I'm pretty sure volumes in terms of bytes are rising, but it's all copyright theft.

W-e-e-e-e-e-lll

Perhaps you haven't run a news server after all. You apparently have no idea how INN works, for a start.

Quite.