HellaNZB - better than Unison

[steev182]

So I like to use usenet (shhh).

 

Beforehand I always used Unison, but there were a few things that I didn't like about it. Mainly the lack of Terminal interface and how it didn't automatically unrar nicely.

 

I found a Python based usenet client called HellaNZB. It looks quite nice, but has a few prerequisites:

 

-You need to install MacPorts

-You need a good usenet account

-It helps to have a Newzbin account

 

So I went ahead and downloaded MacPorts. MacPorts seems to be a bit like Portage, or Aptitude, just it builds everything from source, so its more like Portage than Aptitude.

 

to download and install HellaNZB, you just go:

 

sudo port install hellanzb

 

When its done its work (usually takes 15-20 minutes), you need to make some changes to its config file, just adding in your usenet server and altering the download and queue locations.

 

Then just type hellanzb.py -D and hellanzb is ready for you to dump some .nzb files so it can get downloading for you

 

Usenet is much faster than bittorrent and a lot more dependable on finding nearly anything you want.