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The Cabal has arrived.
Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC from web-
@thatonepony haha! They know their target audience.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:14:02 UTC from web -
@thatonepony hehe.. I remember back when I WinRAR was the best out there for that sort of thing. I use 7z now and many serious techies use it as well.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:19:54 UTC from web-
@pony Because it's freely licensed, can decompress most formats, etc...
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:20:52 UTC from web-
@chiefanchor WinRAR is still good no doubt. Do you know whether it can decompress .7z files? 7z is open source if I'm not mistaken.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:22:15 UTC from web
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@pony I don't believe WinRAR was ever the best, it's just what windows users thought was the best (at that time I was a windows user too).
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:22:13 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel I'm thinking about like 10 years ago.. I don't know when 7z came out or whether there were any competitors for WinRAR before it came out.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:24:23 UTC from web-
@pony bzip2 has existed for at least that long
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:26:04 UTC from web -
@pony more recently it's been upstaged by lzma, and now xz. I do believe that 7z is just a wrapper around .tar.xz files.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:26:58 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel right I believe that is the case now that you mention it. At least it would make sense. Interesting. I haven't heard about bzip2. Then again WinRAR was enough for my needs back then
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:29:49 UTC from web
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@pony Main point being that .rar was never the best, it was just what windows users would think was the best. A lot of software is like that really. Free stuff doesn't really have much of an advertising budget.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:29:47 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel yup. free usually works fine for the average user.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:31:10 UTC from web-
@pony But only if they hear about it. No advertising makes it hard for that to happen without really good word-of-mouth. WinRAR, being a commercial product, did a lot of advertising, and it got a lot of word-of-mouth for being clearly better than WinZIP.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:32:55 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel I gotcha. Until I learned from a friend about open source software I didn't know much if anything about it to be honest.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:36:30 UTC from web-
@pony Yeah I was the same. A whole new world opened up to me, and back in 2005 I decided to move completely into it. Haven't looked back since <3
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:38:29 UTC from web
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@thatonepony I see. I rarely archive so it hasn't bothered me.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:23:16 UTC from web -
@thatonepony you could always "rent" one from gamestop
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:25:06 UTC from web -
@thatonepony I usually put files in .zip archives when needed because it's more universally accepted.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:25:20 UTC from web -
@thatonepony yeah.. you're best bet if you had a PS2 console (as I do) would be to go buy and trade used games at Gamestop.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:27:51 UTC from web -
@thatonepony it depends on your area maybe. the GameStops in my area have a decent selection of PS2 games.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:30:28 UTC from web -
@thatonepony by rent I mean buy used play it return it saying it sucked and you want your money back.
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:33:54 UTC from web -
@thatonepony Where do you buy games then?
Sunday, 18-Mar-12 08:43:08 UTC from web
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