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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog
« Last post by Tuxman on August 30, 2012, 06:07 AM »
You're a moron if you think you can validate ridiculous abbreviations ("FF", there is no second capital F in Firefox!) by just calling me a moron.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog
« Last post by Tuxman on August 30, 2012, 06:03 AM »
There's no FF15 yet. They're still at XIV.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog
« Last post by Tuxman on August 30, 2012, 05:34 AM »
MilesAhead did, and you were with him. You should stop doing it wrong in order to avoid me correcting it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog
« Last post by Tuxman on August 30, 2012, 03:36 AM »
It's "Fx", not "FF" ("Final Fantasy"? "Fire Fox"?).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog
« Last post by Tuxman on August 30, 2012, 03:04 AM »
I've been running optimized third-party Firefox builds only for months now. New Pale Moon 15 still "hogs" about 850 MB of RAM with about 20 tabs and 41 active extensions. That said, I have 8 GB of RAM, so it's not much; I don't see a difference though.

edit: I like the other big change in Fx15 though.

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Living Room / Re: I want a Sony Xperia SX, but I think it's stupid to buy one.
« Last post by Tuxman on August 23, 2012, 03:09 AM »
New Sony devices are neat, at least visually. Too bad Sony is an evil company.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Ritlabs "support" gem
« Last post by Tuxman on August 23, 2012, 03:08 AM »
Don't say that. They might read it and make the wrong decisions.
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General Software Discussion / Re: VLC - Is it worth it still?
« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2012, 05:04 AM »
VLC was never worth it. The built-in codecs are of rather low quality, the audio output processing does not do what my Hi-Fi ears expect. Piece of crap.
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Living Room / Re: Go dark for IE - October 26, 2012
« Last post by Tuxman on August 19, 2012, 01:25 PM »
From my website's weekly stats:



Meh.
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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none
« Last post by Tuxman on August 16, 2012, 04:28 PM »
And while RAR isn't open source, it does at least have source code for the decompression, with a liberal-enough license that it's a usable format.
According to this logic, ZPAQ should be your format of choice: open-sourced and a high compression rate.  8)
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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none
« Last post by Tuxman on August 16, 2012, 03:38 PM »
NTFS streams and ACLs
Do you really use them? I know no one who does.

and pretty darn comprehensive command line features
Well...

7-Zip [64] 9.27 alpha  Copyright (c) 1999-2012 Igor Pavlov  2012-06-02

Usage: 7z <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...]
       [<@listfiles...>]

<Commands>
  a: Add files to archive
  b: Benchmark
  d: Delete files from archive
  e: Extract files from archive (without using directory names)
  h: Calculate hash values for files
  l: List contents of archive
  t: Test integrity of archive
  u: Update files to archive
  x: eXtract files with full paths
<Switches>
  -ai[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include archives
  -ax[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude archives
  -bd: Disable percentage indicator
  -i[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include filenames
  -m{Parameters}: set compression Method
  -o{Directory}: set Output directory
  -p{Password}: set Password
  -r[-|0]: Recurse subdirectories
  -scs{UTF-8 | WIN | DOS}: set charset for list files
  -sfx[{name}]: Create SFX archive
  -si[{name}]: read data from stdin
  -slt: show technical information for l (List) command
  -so: write data to stdout
  -ssc[-]: set sensitive case mode
  -ssw: compress shared files
  -t{Type}: Set type of archive
  -u[-][p#][q#][r#][x#][y#][z#][!newArchiveName]: Update options
  -v{Size}[b|k|m|g]: Create volumes
  -w[{path}]: assign Work directory. Empty path means a temporary directory
  -x[r[-|0]]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude filenames
  -y: assume Yes on all queries

What exactly is it lacking for you?

IMHO it sucks. The zip format, even with the various extensions that aren't universally supported, just isn't very good...
You missed the .zipx format, obviously. Also, if you prefer WinRAR, remember that .rar is a proprietary format too.
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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none
« Last post by Tuxman on August 16, 2012, 02:23 PM »
Why should anyone still use WinRAR?

That said, WinZip is still pretty good, it is only a bit too pricey.

Corel, all good software's graveyard. *sigh*
(Before someone mentions Oracle: I said good software.)
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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none
« Last post by Tuxman on August 16, 2012, 02:16 AM »
Yesterday I saw that even WinZip has a registry cleaner.  ;D

I wonder when Microsoft will bring out their own.
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It is. Why shouldn't it?
Don't use Linux, problem solved.
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Right, I didn't.
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"How to fix Linux's sucking": Install BSD. Done.
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Living Room / Re: Interview with Steve Wozniak
« Last post by Tuxman on August 13, 2012, 01:29 AM »
Them Apple folks always need some impersonated icon, don't they?
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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Many DC'ers Are Psychopaths~! :P
« Last post by Tuxman on August 11, 2012, 12:24 AM »
I'm schizoid, does that work?
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Living Room / Re: Hacked "hard" via the cloud.
« Last post by Tuxman on August 05, 2012, 02:20 AM »
Don't use the cloud for sensitive data. Done.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Immersive Explorer: Oh God why?
« Last post by Tuxman on August 03, 2012, 08:54 AM »
I wonder what the MetroTwit devs will do.
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General Software Discussion / Re: mswin vs linux in academia
« Last post by Tuxman on August 03, 2012, 04:57 AM »
Virtually all GNU software - and even some BSD software - has been ported to Windows. There is no reason to prefer Linux just for its applications.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Immersive Explorer: Oh God why?
« Last post by Tuxman on August 02, 2012, 06:27 PM »
ZOMG THEY MUST SAY GNU/LINUX EVERYTIME A DISTRIBUTION NAME IS MENTIONED
Wrong. Not all Linux distributions are GNU/Linux distributions.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Immersive Explorer: Oh God why?
« Last post by Tuxman on August 02, 2012, 05:15 PM »
Ubuntu is not free, neither is Linux.
While they contain large free code parts, they are not free as in free speech.

Also, how can a kernel be the least important part of a kernel?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Immersive Explorer: Oh God why?
« Last post by Tuxman on August 01, 2012, 05:23 PM »
Uhm, well, my mother is quite non-techy and she didn't see the difference when on her new system x² was replaced by Windows Explorer. She just doesn't "use" them.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Immersive Explorer: Oh God why?
« Last post by Tuxman on August 01, 2012, 03:11 PM »
Why should non-techy users get them nailed down at all?
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