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Here are the links: http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/ http://www.rarsoft.com/

Gmail currently does not restrict *.rar files (nor does Gmail scream at you for what file types your compressed RAR volume might contain). Use WinRAR for free. http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm
It works in: Pocket PC, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and MS DOS. I love it so much I *GLADLY* PURCHASED IT! ($29) So call me a WinRAR fanboy.
It is a superior replacement to WinZIP (and other zip clones) with better compression algorithms (and you can also encrypt your compressed files AND their filenames WITH authenticity verification plus it handles everything WinZIP does).

Oh, and if you absolutely MUST pack files together for a non-torrent reason, use something that is freely (in all senses) available to all people, not just to a select elite.

"Select elite"?

http://www.rarsoft.com/rar_add.htm
UnRAR for OS/2 Command line freeware OS/2 UnRAR.
UnRAR for Mac OS X Command line freeware Mac OS X universal binary UnRAR.
UnRAR for Mac OS X Command line freeware Mac OS X UnRAR.
UnRAR for PowerPC Linux Command line freeware PowerPC Linux UnRAR.
UnRAR for x64 Linux Command line freeware x64 Linux UnRAR.
UnRAR for Familiar Linux Command line freeware ARM/iPAQ/Familiar Linux UnRAR.
UnRAR for Solaris 8 Sparc Command line freeware Solaris 8 Sparc UnRAR...

The UnRARs are completely free, and I have several free utilities that evidently use the dlls they also supply. (Eg, 7-Zip)

Aside from the philosophy, RARs just are more suited to large and/or segmented files, Zip has been stretched to manage that, but RAR is just smoother. But Real Men use tgz, I suppose.

RAR has an open decompression library that allows for derivative works that decompress RAR formats. you can link it, modify it, use it, redistribute it modified, whatever, as long as you don't try to reverse-engineer the compression scheme. go download UnRAR and read the damned license.

Your anti-virus program DOESN'T need Winrar to extract a RAR file. There is source code that programs can use. See here: http://www.rarsoft.com/rar_add.htm

I haven't seen a (legitimate American) business that uses RAR files for any reason. Any company that prohibits users from installing extra software would thus prohibit their users from installing a RAR decompressor. It would also be very easy to delete all incoming RAR files or reject the message with something like "Please send a ZIP file" instead. Until people start sending ZIP files (which are rejected after being virus-scanned) this is largely a non-threat.

I have no idea how to apply the patch under Linux, but you can get a trial version of rar/unrar from: http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm. You can also get the source for the unrar under some sort of freeware license from: http://www.rarsoft.com/rar_add.htm. Not to be a Gentoo zealot, but under Gentoo an 'emerge -v unrar' will get you the free unrar utility. I imagine other distros have a package of unrar as well.

I have no idea how to apply the patch under Linux, but you can get a trial version of rar/unrar from: http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm. You can also get the source for the unrar under some sort of freeware license from: http://www.rarsoft.com/rar_add.htm. Not to be a Gentoo zealot, but under Gentoo an 'emerge -v unrar' will get you the free unrar utility. I imagine other distros have a package of unrar as well.

1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Microsoft Office
3. PuTTy SSH Client
4. WinRAR (will check out Izarc too)
5. WinAMP
6. POPFile, an Email Filter
7. SmartFTP, gonna FileZilla a try though..
8. IrfanView, a free picture viewer
9. NetTransport download manager, also downloads media streams
10. Windows Media Player 9-- its actually pretty good!

Why not winrar for linux. I use it for most of my archive work. It seems to do a quick good job and most people I know can support it. It also supports breaking up the archives and a ton of other nifty stuff.

Download it here (Note it's not free and it does mention trial but ive never seen it expire or anything)

I might not be the best but it does a good job of compressing files and lets you compress them to exe for your windows using friends.

Also winrar supports extracting tar archives (im not too sure about tar.gz) but I know it extracts tars. Since I use .tar for putting my mp3's into one file. Compressing it anymore isn't going to make much of a difference if it's mp3 anyways.

Considering the frequency with which I reinstall, here's my list for Windows (post-driver updates):

Mozilla Firefox - a must. even if it's not a necessity straight off as a browser, popup blocking makes it worth having immediately.
Trillian - what friends don't enjoy the logging on and off every 2 minutes as you have to reboot your comp for new settings to take place
SmartFTP - as a web developer this is a must, can't pretend to work without an FTP client.
Winamp (5) - I use it for everything media now. I'm an addict.
WinRAR - I know it's shareware but I still like it's ease of use and modifications to the Windows context menus.
Nero - my burning software of choice
ConTEXT - my editor of choice; see SmartFTP
Google Toolbar - unfortunately, I end up doing a lot of testing in IE and without this, I might as well kiss my peaceful browsing goodbye.
Spybot Search & Destroy - not so much of a necessity immediately, but the immunization qualities are great to set up from the get-go
Ad Aware - see Spybot

RAR compression is free for decompression with source available, heaps of precompiled binaries for decompression on your OS of choice and it's included in a whole heap of popular free archive programs. Just burn the latest source on every CD you make and you should be fine.

Or just use an archiving format that can encrypt filenames as well, and give you much better compression.

These are some of the free (speech or beer) software I'd install on a family, non-gaming machine:

• Web Browser: Mozilla or Mozilla Firebird
• E-mail: Mozilla (cross-platform), Mozilla Thunderbird (cross-platform), Evolution (Gnome), or KMail (KDE)
• Office Suite: OpenOffice.org
• Media Player: QuickTime (Windows), Zinf (cross-platform), RealPlayer (cross-platform), WinAmp (Windows), MPlayer (Windows), XMMS (Linux)
• Image Viewer: IrfanView (Windows)
• Instant Messaging: Gaim (cross-platform)
• Personal Information Management: Palm Desktop Software (great PIM suite even if you don't own a Palm)
• Other: Acrobat Reader (although I'm weary of their DRM), Java 2 Runtime Environment, Macromedia Flash and Shockwave players, Ad-Aware (spyware remover for Windows), ZoneAlarm, Sygate Personal Firewall (firewall, alternative to ZoneAlarm), Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus, FileZilla, WinRAR (not free, shareware with nag window), Ofoto desktop software (basic photo album and touch-ups, even if you don't use Ofoto's online services)

Some other software I'd install on my own desktop (dev), in decreasing order of importance:

• Cygwin, bascially all packages
• UltraEdit32 (45-day trial shareware)
• TightVNC
• Ghostscript and GSView
• Java 2 SDK
• Eclipse
• Borland JBuilder Personal
• ActiveState Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk (yes, even though they are in Cygwin), Jython
• GIMP
• POV-Ray
• At least one of Apache, Tomcat, or Plone (Zope)
• HTTrack (a website copier)

1. foobar 2000 for music playback without Winamp's awful tiny unintuitive UI and with plenty of features to keep any audio-lover happy.
2. Media Player Classic - A great, lightweight but featureful WMP6-alike.
3. For more advanced users, PenguiNet - a lovely Windows SSH/telnet client. Not as lightweight or free as PuTTY, but more intuitive, and has my name on it :)
4. Something addictive.
5. Opera and/or Firebird.. must wean all those users off IE.
6. DScaler - I'm yet to find a better TV Card app. Lightweight, stable, and Free.
7. DigiGuide - Excellent TV guide, in the UK at least.
8. WinRar - as vital for Windows as gzip is for *ix.
9. Nero - Must-have CD-RW software.
10. Ad-Aware and friends.

Good point.

VSOSub is the standard for subtitles. Will it handle that? Often, the text is tied to the frame that it is supposed to appear in. The file is a .rar. Will this piece of hardware be able to handle it.

This DivX thing is way too much of a moving target for a piece of engineered hardware to be able hit. Leave it to computers.

XTree users might care to check out the xtree clone ZTBold and ZTreeWin

• WinAMP
• WinZip
• WinRAR
• WindowBlinds (well, it's not "Windows"...)
• WinTV

Then of course there's X-Windowing System...

Unfortunately, none of these are operating systems - they are all software packages and quite distinct from the OS to most people (er, except for WinTV, which is a hardware card). I seriously doubt "Lindows" has a leg to stand on. (I'd have named it something like "WinOnLin" or something else that gets the idea that it's a Windows emulator running on Linux, Lindows is a pretty dumb name... Although I suppose they could argue Lindows = LINux + WinDOWS, but I doubt that'll fly...)

An excellent example of such an interface is good old Norton Commander (for Windows it is FAR - File and Archive Manager. UNIX equivalents are somewhat lacking in features and UI quality).

For example, imagine that you want to move all your object files, plus a few others that don't have anything in common. (save to you - i.e. not the same name, or file type, etc.)

OK, good challenge. ;)

You could quickly navigate to the appropriate directory in the GUI

You could quickly navigate to the appropriate directory in the FAR, you can have up to ten shortcuts (Ctrl+Number), you can have a user menu with optional keyboard shortcut navigation (F2 D I brings me to my Palm Install directory).

Type a command along the lines of "select *.o" into the cli parser of that _very_ GUI directory window, and the appropriate _icons_ highlight, and are selected. Quickly mouse around to the other couple of icons you want, and shift-click to add them to the selection.

Select one file with .o extension and press Ctrl+GreyPlus. Or press GreyPlus and enter one or several wildcards, separated with commas. Then you can move along the file list (with keyboard or mouse, actually) and use Insert to manually select files. Of course, you can unselect files in the same way. Some extra seclecting features are also available.

Then drag the icons from the window into another folder visible onscreen (which may be easier than having to remember and type in another pathname), change over to that window and enter a command like "rename * *.backup" to rename all of the moved files.

Then use the second panel of FAR (!) to navigate to the target directory. Press F6 to move all the files there. You can even add to the path which is shown in the window something like *.*.backup and you don't need that extra step. ;)

So, this is an ideal UI for the file management. You can't beat FAR neither in GUI Explorer-like apps (what a pain to look at people using it for 5 minutes to accomplish what was described above) nor in CLI (you need more tiping and more time).

See screenshot or visit the official FAR web-site.

Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!

• G -- 00
• A -- 01
• T -- 10
• C -- 11

This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .

The NT Driver is at http://www.chat.ru/~ashedel/ext2fsnt/

The driver is in a format I never heard of: RAR

Personally, I use the "ext2 tools" for Win NT. This includes command line tools e2cat, e2cd, e2cp, e2ls, e2part, e2pwd. Not elegant (command line tools), but they get the job done. To use, set the E2CWD DOS environment variable to the drive and partition (e.g., E2CWD=1:2). I don't have a URL (it's dead), but I'm sure you can find it with some searching.