Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004...

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:06:32 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:03:45 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

 

Are you looking at your saved local posts?! Or are those online? I miss DejaNews! :(

 

It's all local. (I have a spreadsheet!* ;-)

 

Wow. You keep track of everything locally, don't you? ;-)

 

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Ugh. See, this is why I miss DejaNews. Heck, Google Groups could in its
early days before it got worse. And why does https://groups.google.com
require me to log in? Frak that.

 

Google was always awful in comparison to Deja News, and only got worse
as the years rolled on. But it got terrible once they rolled Usenet
into their whole Groups interface; it polluted both streams and I
don't think it made users of either platform happier for the
intersection.

 

Still, I was surprised to see how much spam was on c.s.i.p.g.action,
according to Google. Almost all of that got filtered server-side for
me and it was rare that any snuck through so it actually ended up on
my client. Of course, Google could have filtered it too, but I guess
since most of it was /coming/ from Google groups users, that might
have been a conflict of interest.

 

Narkive is pretty good, although I do wish they had the ability to
better locate articles. The lack is forgivable though, since that
would likely require a lot more CPU and bandwidth, and I suspect the
site is already run on a shoestring.

 

* not actually a spreadsheet

 

Oh, you pecker. :P

 

Would it make you feel better if I told you it was a five-gigabyte MS
Access database?* ;-)

 Geez. Big.
 

* I don't actually use a database either. If you must know, it's all
just a bunch of plain text files stored in a ZIP** archive.

 5 GB of text files? Impressive. I am also an old school basic text files
too.
 

** okay, it's a 7Z archive ;-)

 How big in total decompressed?