Monthly Archives: April 2008

7zip vs. WinRAR – Who Wins?

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My personal experience:

They are almost exactly the same, on average. I had been using WinRAR (almost)exclusively because of its “Password Protect File Names” feature, but 7zip does that now, too. Didn’t last time I tried it (or I was smoking a huge bag of crack and missed that, I don’t know.)

For example: 7zip does a better job overall, but WinRAR does better at compressing files already compressed by another algorithm. Compressing a folder full of anything but JPGS, MP3s or Packaged EXEs = 7zip wins. Other way around, WinRAR wins… usually.

(For the Geeks: I use the highest compression setting possible, with the solid archive option)

As I have done many times in the past, so I do now: going through my billions of archives, extracting them then recompressing them with a new program to see which one compresses better.

The weirdest thing of all: I have 3 or 4 archives that ALWAYS compress better with WinZIP, by a large margin. Yeah, I don’t get that either.

Only In America…

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… will you see two fat friends go to a donut shop, have several treats and cups of coffee, then when done, get up, egress the building, enter their seperate cars, and drive both to the same destination … the drive thru of the fish ‘n’ chips joint next door.

We have some fat and stupid people in this country. No wonder everyone hates America.

PS: Yeah, I used egress as a verb. Wanna fight about it?

Happenings

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I have been doing nothing really lately of any worth, other than pulling my hair out about my employment, and hacking the website theme to get it ready for distribution.

And this is why I don’t usually like talking about daily life. My life is rather “everyday”, and not of much interest to the public.

Good news today is: I’m still technically alive. Yes!

Enjoy!