THE BORE

General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on March 27, 2010, 01:23:40 AM

Title: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 27, 2010, 01:23:40 AM: I only installed you because people have an annoying tendency to put stuff in your file format. Please refrain from shitting up my shell context menu with worthless commands.

Love,
recursivelyenumerable-san
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 27, 2010, 01:25:23 AM: (and yes, I found the option to disable it in the settings dialog. STILL NOT FORGIVEN.)
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Himu on March 27, 2010, 01:25:35 AM: :lol
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 27, 2010, 01:36:54 AM: Also please stop asking me to buy you when I know damn well you will do the same job for free
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Diunx on March 27, 2010, 01:51:16 AM: I can't imagine Winrar without the box asking you to buy it, I consider it a feature at this point.
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: chronovore on March 27, 2010, 02:01:43 AM: How often does WinRAR beg for funds? I use it daily and don't ever recall being pestered.
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 27, 2010, 02:20:36 AM: Quote from: chronovore on March 27, 2010, 02:01:43 AM
How often does WinRAR beg for funds? I use it daily and don't ever recall being pestered.

It begs for money every time I open a zip file.
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: chronovore on March 27, 2010, 02:21:42 AM: Oh. I only use it for RAR stuff. I use 7zip for everything else.
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Bebpo on March 27, 2010, 02:22:02 AM: Quote from: Diunx on March 27, 2010, 01:51:16 AM
I can't imagine Winrar without the box asking you to buy it, I consider it a feature at this point.

I thought I was the only one. I get so used to hitting close that when I install it on a fresh computer I'm sitting there waiting for the box to appear.

Quote from: chronovore on March 27, 2010, 02:01:43 AM
How often does WinRAR beg for funds? I use it daily and don't ever recall being pestered.

After 30 days you get a little box pop-up everytime you use the program.
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on March 27, 2010, 03:52:59 AM: 7-zip niccas
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 27, 2010, 04:28:49 AM: Quote from: Father_Mike on March 27, 2010, 01:36:54 AM
Also please stop asking me to buy you when I know damn well you will do the same job for free

this :lol

Outside of that, I love winrar. Nice quick way to get my music :bow
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Draft on March 27, 2010, 09:49:08 AM: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Purple Filth on March 27, 2010, 09:59:31 AM: people still use winrar?

7 zip is all you need

Quote from: chronovore on March 27, 2010, 02:21:42 AM
Oh. I only use it for RAR stuff. I use 7zip for everything else.

?

why not use it for all
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 27, 2010, 11:32:56 AM: Wait, I didn't realize 7-zip did RARs. I had it installed, but just use it to open TAR/BZ2 stuff.
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: BlueTsunami on March 27, 2010, 12:02:45 PM: (http://i42.tinypic.com/1zgg35x.jpg)
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: rodi on March 27, 2010, 02:29:10 PM: Quote from: BlueTsunami on March 27, 2010, 12:02:45 PM
(http://i42.tinypic.com/1zgg35x.jpg)

:lol
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Reb on March 27, 2010, 03:15:27 PM: 7-zip
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: CurseoftheGods on March 27, 2010, 03:40:35 PM: I hate it when I download porn in a password-locked WinRAR file. :(
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Powerslave on March 27, 2010, 04:11:25 PM: ^hooray he makes a post!
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: CurseoftheGods on March 27, 2010, 04:13:54 PM: Quote from: Powerslave on March 27, 2010, 04:11:25 PM
^hooray he makes a post!

:heartbeat
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: M3wThr33 on March 27, 2010, 05:00:59 PM: I remember once for a project I needed to squeeze a bunch of data onto about 4 DVDs. It was a variety of media. Text, gifs, jpgs, avis, mpegs, wavs, mp3s, isos.

Basically all kinds of media. Basic compression got me within about 100MB of fitting on the last DVD, so I needed to squeeze it just a BIT more.

So I decided to make it a contest. What would compress a bunch of random shit better, 7Zip or WinRar?
Well, it turns out it was WinRar, by a landslide.

Not only that, but 7zip was REALLY FUCKING SLOW, took up a SHITLOAD of RAM and on some files, INCREASED their filesize. Basically worthless. The only reason people use it is because they are somehow guilted by a purchase prompt on WinRar or think all open source shit is immediately better than all alternatives.

7zip sucks donkey balls, get used to it. (And WinRar HANDLES 7zip files)
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 27, 2010, 06:11:02 PM: Uh, no it's because winrar is annoying as hell to use.
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: DJ_Tet on March 27, 2010, 06:31:41 PM: Yeah, when I think of annoying programs winrar is at the top of the list ::)
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 27, 2010, 06:50:41 PM: /me likes this.
Title: Re: Dear WinRAR,
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 27, 2010, 06:52:20 PM: with my bandwidth and the terabytes of storage available on my home san, i am offended by file compression utilities in general

filthy fucking poors and your huffman trees

tar or bust, fags