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7-Zip

Do we still need 3rd party compression software when we have self-extracting archives and operating systems with built-in ZIP support?

Of course we do.

I don’t know about you but the most common compression formats I run into these days are RAR and ZIP. I use Windows XP’s built-in ZIP extractor to handle ZIP files and I use a free command line utility, UnRAR for Windows, to extract RAR archives. That’s pretty much all my decompression needs taken care of.

Or so I thought.

I didn’t see any great need to get additional compression software after I upgraded to a new PC until I downloaded the logs from my web site a few days ago. cPanel compresses logs in the GZIP format and I discovered I had no way of decompressing a GZIP archive on my new PC.

I recalled seeing a program called 7-Zip last year so I decided to check it out.
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By Gobi – Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Elsewhere on the web

“… dumber than dirt”. [via]
“… after giving an assignment that required drawing lines, he realized that not a single student actually knew how to use a ruler.”

A famous Chinese General.
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Sexual dysfunction in modern times.

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By Gobi – Monday, October 29, 2007

Guild Wars links

Guilt Wars Chapter 33.
So it’s not so much Conjure Phantasm as much as, uh, never mind.

Oh FFS.
“How can they even bring themselves to try and communicate in splurges of unintelligable letters without vowels or any semblence of punctuation whatsoever?”

Guild drama.
Oh FFS.

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By Gobi – Sunday, October 28, 2007

Elsewhere on the web

Paleo-Future. [via]
The year 2000 as imagined by artists in the year 1910.

Radio Shack Executive Decision Maker.
Suddenly, the 80s make sense.

Least convincing justification for a humanitarian award.
And what about the kittens? Won’t someone think of the kittens?

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By Gobi – Thursday, October 25, 2007

Guild Wars Hard Mode: Aurora Glade

Guild Wars: Aurora Glade Hard Mode
I beat the Aurora Glade mission in Guild Wars in Hard Mode last weekend to make it 16/25 towards the Guardian of Tyria title.

I found this mission quite frustrating when I first tried it two years ago but subsequent tries with other characters were straightforward successes. This, of course, was in Normal Mode. Hard Mode, as you might imagine, proved slightly harder.
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By Gobi – Thursday, October 25, 2007