Thursday, February 03, 2005

Xnews - Resource Hog

Unfortunately I have not yet been able to download last Saturday's FA Cup match between Man United and Middlesbrough, thanks to Xnews's inefficiency when dealing with massive numbers of headers. Apparently any operation in a newsgroup where an excessive number of headers have been downloaded would result in endless page faults and continual memory swapping. I'm still in the process of discarding useless headers, but I can't even guarantee I'll get the actual downloads started tonight.

Preview of tomorrow's Blog entry: A Digital God?

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