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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use 7-Zip files?
« Last post by Darwin on April 26, 2007, 10:16 PM »OK... thanks for the clarification of NO and NEVER. I didn't notice the choice for never when I voted - can I change my vote?!
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: I use zip ONLY because I tend to be archiving things to send to other people via e-mail. Occasionally, I use Rar to create an SFX file but that adds to the PIA factor because I then have to explain to the recipient not only that they have to change the extension in order to open the file but also that they need to run an exe file to get to the actual file that I am sending. Every so often this is too much for people.
60 minutes as in http://www.cbsnews.c...nutes/main3415.shtml - there's always this old guy at the end who's doing a funny monologue-f0dder (April 25, 2007, 05:40 PM)
I made the mistake of upgrading from Acronis TrueImage Home to the Workstation with Universal Restore precisely for this reason...If you are not using a server with multiple machines to administer centrally then the TrueImage Workstation edition offers nothing over and above the Home Ed. and is not worth the upgrade price - plus with the Workstation version you have to pay an annual fee to download updates.-Carol Haynes (April 26, 2007, 04:44 AM)
Especially as they keep contacting me to extend my subscription for a reasonable price (far less than the cost of an upgrade from Home 9 to 10) but NOTHING ever comes of it. I've had two phone calls with the promise of a sales rep contacting me via e-mail to confirm the quote ($17.95 US for Workstation w/o UR), I reply to the e-mail (which asks only for info about which Acronis products I want the quote for - WTF? didn't I just do that on the phone?) - and then a yawning black hole of nothing punctuated only by my intermittent e-mails back to the rep asking for an update and their promise to get right back to me, which never happens. We're talking about a timescale of months here, not days or even weeks. Months. I gave up playing that game after dealing with the second rep and have ignored the second phone call, though I did blast the poor fellow making the call. Didn't seem to light a fire under anyone in sales at Acronis, though...I do think however that there are some ramifications for this kind of pirating that are non-obvious but quite important to think about. And one of them is the open source market. For example, does piracy hurt the open source community? If people couldn't pirate photoshop, would that make programs like the Gimp and Paint.net more and more important, more and more used, and perhaps more and more supported, funded, and developed? If MS Windows and OSX were never pirated, would it funnel more energy into developing and developing for linux? These are the issues that really make me think twice about pirating..
I'm trying to ration my time spent venturing outside of this thread to the weekends to avoid not doing anything else but chatting here.
The above example with "slut" was meant for dramatic effect. I thought that was obvious in the context.
The Australian dollar has lifted in the last several weeks from approx 75USc to 83c.
Thanks for the heads up - I'll have to practice due diligence when buying DOpus 9 on Friday (Thursday night here, he writes hopefully...) - The Universal Currency Converter is my friend!
. Really rolls of the tongue, doesn't it?! i'm in a catch-22 situation, since all these CD catalog programs involve putting in the CD/DVD and ejecting..
Quote from: DonL
: If DOpus is Godzilla then XYplorer is T. Rex — it always depends what suits you best for your current task.
As we've seen, though, the memory usage of the two programs is very similar and nobody so far has mentioned a way in which Opus is slower than XY.
If it's significant that Opus uses a few meg more of HDD space then I must be living in a different era of computing to everyone else. Otherwise, I don't get the analogy.
I took Don's analogy more in the spirit of XYplorer and DOpus are both at the top of the food chain in their respective niches and that he was basically saying "different horses for different courses". If he had likened DOpus to a Brontosaurus and XYplorer to T.Rex, then my readig would the same as yours...I got a couple of things from there, but its very unclear what you can do if you take a freebie and then have to reinstall it later
I'm with you 100% - though the one that makes me laugh every time (even now when I'm just thinking of it) is the "How 'bout I calculate how much time we just wasted?" line.-mwb1100 (April 24, 2007, 05:11 PM)
Am I a traitor for thinking these commercials are hilarious? That little mac guy is such a smug bastard! I love it! He reminds me of Dr. Evil's son. The one where PC needed to have permission from the secret service to talk to the Mac guy was classic.
By the way, Macs suck in general. I shouldn't say that, they have their place in society. But for me, they suck.-superboyac (April 24, 2007, 10:34 AM)
How the hell can such a thing happen from blowing compressed air? Darn, I thought that was supposed to be safe >_<. Did the PSU literally explode, as in causing damage to other components? Or are you "just" afraid that it might have overjuiced the harddrives?
Crossing my fingers for you!-f0dder (April 24, 2007, 03:41 AM)
