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Nice jokes lol.

But back to a more serious note, are there any resources that can explain stuff easily and on a SA level?
Humour is recommended

Hi All I am working as a software developer for a financial company, started not too long ago. I don't really have a financial background. I am learning stuff every day, which is great. The company basically deals with financing of equipment (rentals, invoicing, legal, securitisation, and lots of ot...

Is it possible to run Mac OS X in a VM or something?
100% free and legal please!!
I always wanted to use a Mac just to see what these fanbois keep bragging about...

How do they explain the success of The Witcher which achieved phenomenal sales without the need for drm? Prime The Witcher does use Tages cope protection so it is not exactly free of DRM... Tages... Hmm I think Gothic 3 used that. I read on a site (think it was cdfreaks but can't remember), how it ...

Microsoft’s plans for Windows 7 to allow users to disable Internet Explorer don’t go far enough, the EU is thinking. CRN reports that the Wall Street Journal reports that the EU wants to force Microsoft to bundle other browsers - I’m thinking Opera and Firefox - with Windows. A startup screen would...

Lol Windows and robots should be exercised with extreme caution.... lol

This is a long shot, but try using Resource Hacker and directly modify the executable to take out the menu items (or somehow figure out how to hide them).
Way too complicated and silly, I know, but hey... it's a Friday afternoon

Stuart wrote:the "leaked" version of build 7100 contained a trojan, so i'll wait till M$ releases another one.

Oh, why not download more of your favourite RAR'd files

Windows 7 Build 7127 has been leaked today.
There are bug fixes, maybe the FTP issue is resolved.

But WinRAR is not free for business use, you have to buy licences, not sure if its free form home use, I doupt. I also use 7zip all the time But when install it on client PC's i change the default to zip instead of 7zip. The only problem i have which doesnt really bother is the 7zip icon for extens...

7-Zip 9.03 Alpha released!
Can now update solid archives!!
Cool!!!

UrBaN wrote:

shiv wrote:

Stuart wrote:well, i only got it installed this morning, so nothing major yet. i can confirm, however, that alcohol 120% works on buuild 7100! w00t!

and i wonder what you use alcohol for....

Getting drunk, cleaning wounds, rubbing things...ya know.

lol

Stuart wrote:well, i only got it installed this morning, so nothing major yet. i can confirm, however, that alcohol 120% works on buuild 7100! w00t!

and i wonder what you use alcohol for....

Anything that is RAR'd is underground stuff. wut? you mean anything that ends in .rar? m'kay. we'll let ron decide this. i'll remove the instructions in my post so long for the sake of your sanity. Well yes... given that most pirated stuff is RAR'd. I'm just advising you that what you are posting i...

shiv , the win7 beta is essentially open source so no real piracy here The admins were getting real hard the last time someone posted keys and all... yes, they did, which is why, you will notice, i posted no keys. and the link i gave is not a download link. if you bothered to follow it you would no...

Firestrm wrote:shiv, the win7 beta is essentially open source so no real piracy here

The admins were getting real hard the last time someone posted keys and all...

Stuart wrote: uh oh what?

You are promoting piracy... well sort off.
The RC should be downloaded from the MS web site, not from some other site.
And modifying setup files is a no-no.

Removed per Stuart's request - RRF

Uh oh....

I have actually kept this release on my machine for longer than a day....
Wow, what's happening??!!!!!

This thread is about 7-Zip, lol.

RAR has replaced ZIP as the most common form of compression found online now, thanks to sites like RapidShare and MegaUpload. The vast majority of their compressed files are in RAR format. 7zip is in second place in most polls tho. A worthy alternative. 7-Zip can read RAR - that's all I need :wink:

jamin_za wrote:WinRAR is still the WinRAR

I rarely use WinRAR nowadays

Extension does not load. Gives multiple errors on install and then when you manually add the extensions to the shell it just bombs out every time saying an exception has occured. Dunno maybe I am running an old version of 7-zip. Will try a new one. Running 64bit version of Win7 though I used the 32...

RuadRauFlessa wrote:I have to concur. 7-Zip is awesome. If only they can get the shell extensions to work properly in Win7

I never had a prob with Win 7 - what problem are you experiencing with the shell extension?

Just thought I would mention it here. I've been using 7-Zip for over 5 years now - it's superb - free, fast, lean and open source. Great compression. 7-Zip is a winner in the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards 2007 in two categories: * Best Project * Best Technical Design I use the 7-Zip (LZMA)...