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Comment Re:Google Groups (Score 2, Interesting) 625

by Llamalarity on Thursday July 31, 2008 @07:35PM (#24425705) Attached to: R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008

For instance, how to do you start a new Usenet group (on that has to be replicated) - it's kinda hard, IIRC.

Pop in alt.config and ask. Things are so slow they sometimes forget to insult the proponents.

If your wanting a Big-8 group you may be pleasantly surprised to find there is no longer a formal voting procedure. news.groups has moved next door to the moderated news.groups.proposals where a tiny bit of grovelling may get you a group in as little as a few weeks.

Meanwhile the alt-configers who read (but seldom post to) n.g.p hang around in n.g mocking the few remaining news groupies. Seriously, if you have been away for a few years things are quite different!

Submission + - Are .tmp files necessary or just bad programming?

Submitted by planckscale on Saturday May 12, 2007 @06:10PM

planckscale writes: After spending another hour deleting .tmp files from a bloated XP machine I started to wonder, is the .tmp file necessary when coding an application on the MS platform? Why do so many apps produce .tmp files and is it just because of bad coding or does the use of them dramatically speed up an app? Don't coders use dev/null to reduce them in linux? I can understand the use of them in case an app crashes for recovery purposes, but why don't more apps have the capacity to delete their own .tmp files once they are done with them? Is it too much to ask to at least have the option when closing an app to delete your temp files?

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