Paid for WinRar? Join the club!
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I got that particular fact from a blue label on a container of mustard.
Fucking hell, learn to crop images, company-that-does-things-entirely-unrelated-to-cropping-images!
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Also, learn to do marketing. Who makes a mustard container in blue?
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What I liked about rar recently is that I could easily create an archive containing exe files and gmail it.
With an unencrypted zip file, gmail rejects executable files.And yes, I sometimes use email attachments sent to myself as a form of (ternary) backup.
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It's all right, it's clearly labelled as "Yellow". And the word "Yellow" is even written in yellow.
+1 for ARJ, though, back in the days when it mattered.
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Maybe it's the autism thing
They're also immune to the flu.
Who makes a mustard container in blue
or pink
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create an archive containing exe files and gmail it
You could do that with any custom made encryption also.
But thanks for the tip.
Maybe I'll make one that simply takes a zip file and adds "Gmail is a dick." somewhere in it.
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You can zip it twice as well. Or rename the exe to something not ending in
.exe
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tar cJf jbo.tar.xz *.jbo
I'm almost afraid of asking what that lojban says in English.
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Who makes a mustard container in blue?
Didn't you know autistic people have blue skin, you insensitive clod?
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/true-story-neil-patrick-harris.png
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tar compress with the xz compressor into jbo.tar.xz all files in the current directory ending with
.jbo
Looks like gibberish to me
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Looks like gibberish to me
No, it says create a tarred compressed of some sort file named jbo.tar.xz with all *.jbo files. I don't now the J flag OTTOMH but c is create and f is "next parameter is file name". J probably means "and compress the result" since tar won't do that by default. I usually used tar czf, myself, when I was tarring things, as that would (IIRC) gzip the resultant tar file.
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J
is compress withxz
z
is compress withgzip
j
is compress withbzip
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There's also
Z
, which nobody uses.
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there's a reason i didn't list it. ;-P
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Before 7-zip was a thing, WinRAR was the best zip client available. Having context menus for add to archive/extract to somewhere were a major improvement over whatever dumb thing winzip made you do to compress/decompress.
I have some vague notion of winzip doing multi part archives. I have a distant memory of trying to do that and it insisted it had to write directly to floppies instead of creating a series of files on the hdd like a sane person would want.
Also, you know, that whole thing about 95% of release groups using rar format.
Also WinACE ftw.
(not really)
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StuffIt Expander REPRESENT!
.sit forever!
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WinACE
StuffIt
Get back in your timepod, you!
No doubt!
Filed under: Yes I'm exhuming this topic. Pray I don't exhume it further!
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The .rar format became popular because splitting a large file into several .zip files was very poorly implemented. Today, I suspect inertia as the main reason for using .rar,, sort of like "we're l33t and l33t people have always used .rar"
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Yeah, I remember - it was useful, about 12 years ago to get around this.
These days it is 'kewl'. Or something.
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What kind of a language has a word for cheese starting in 'Q'?
Filed under: is this question rhetorical?
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is this question rhetorical?
Just in case it's not, Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Portuguese in this case. Spanish does, too: queso.
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Catalan is just a mix between french and spanish, minus a few letters in each word.
also: it's "formatge"
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Interesting. I had guessed it was similar to Spanish, but CBA to actually check.
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Its just as retarded as northern Irish. Why not more idiocy.
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Honestly, the only problem I can think of when dealing with the 7zip application is that, unlike WinZip and WinRAR, it's not smart enough to untar a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file.
Instead, it leaves the tar file after uncompressing and you then have to uncompress that.
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it's not smart enough to untar a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file.
i think (think) it's smart enough to properly extract a .tbz2 or .tgz file....
if that's any help?
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Why anyone would use WinRAR over 7Zip is beyond me.
Because 7Zip didn't exist yet.
Using WinRAR wasn't TR :WTF:. That was paying for WinRAR. The free version did everything you wanted. The only thing that paying did was get rid of the nag screen (which was skippable, IIRC) and give you a nice toasty feeling.
Who makes a mustard container in blue?
Someone who's making an autism awareness label for their mustard, I guess. Although it's really the wrong shade of blue.
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Because 7Zip didn't exist yet.
There was an implied 'now' at the end of that sentence >.>
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Well, nothing about the reddit implied that they paid for WinRAR recently. They just had to prove that they'd done so at some point, likely in the distant past.
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Using WinRAR wasn't TR . That was paying for WinRAR. The free version did everything you wanted. The only thing that paying did was get rid of the nag screen (which was skippable, IIRC) and give you a nice toasty feeling.
There was no free version, that was a 30 day trial.
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I paid for Sublime Text.
So?
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@anotherusername said:
Using WinRAR wasn't TR . That was paying for WinRAR. The free version did everything you wanted. The only thing that paying did was get rid of the nag screen (which was skippable, IIRC) and give you a nice toasty feeling.
There was no free version, that was a 30 day trial.
The (free) 30 day trial was the free version. Basically a full version with a nag screen, since none of the functionality really disappeared when the 30 day trial period ended.
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when the 30 day trial period ended.
How do you know the trial ended?
Oh, and today I discovered my version is apparently licensed?! It was certainly not by me!
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There was a nag window. Either it didn't appear until the trial ended, or it got naggier after the trial ended (made you wait several seconds before clicking "don't register, let me keep using the free trial version" or something like that).
Regardless, it was a minor inconvenience.
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something like that
Did they re-order the nag buttons so that you had to actually pay attention to which one was the "Close this window" button?
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I honestly can't remember, but I don't recall anything like that. I don't even have a computer with WinRAR installed anymore.
I think the WinZip nag probably did that, and also the WinZip nag window did this counting thing where it counted starting from 0 up to the number of days you've had the trial version, and also counting from 0 to the number of archives you've opened. You couldn't dismiss the nag until both counters had finished counting, so it got progressively more annoying with time. I suspect it was one reason why WinRAR was much more popular than WinZip.
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Do you know what the best thing about WinZip is? It's installed by default in our company image! In Win7!
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The full version or the trial?
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Full. Someone here is paying for WinZip despite the existence of 7zip in late 2015, on an operating system that supports zip by default, in a much less annoying UI. You can be sure we aren't using any more interesting formats.
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Probably a site license / support agreement and a policy of refusing to use any open source software that doesn't have a 24/7 dedicated support line.
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Okay, cool, but they could also just not use it and be fine. No one uses anything other than zip here, and that's part of the OS.
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Full. Someone here is paying for WinZip despite the existence of 7zip in late 2015, on an operating system that supports zip by default, in a much less annoying UI. You can be sure we aren't using any more interesting formats.
My company bought a site license for WinZip probably 8-10 years ago. But the built-in zip in windows doesn't support passwords, so it didn't meet our needs.
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But the built-in zip in windows doesn't support passwords, so it didn't meet our needs.
Yes it does. I opened a password protected zip the other day on Win 7.
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