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Justin Frankel Reveals Life After Winamp

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sitting-on-his-pile-of-cash dept.

Joseph Gelinas writes "Speaking out for the first time on life after AOL/Nullsoft, Winamp creator Justin Frankel sat down with BetaNews to discuss his new endeavors. Starting a new company called Cockos, Frankel is leaving behind the mass market for his musical roots, but hints at revolutionary -- and presumably controversial -- things to come."

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  1. Cockos! by Darth23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ... the pornographic Breakfast Cereal!

    I apologize deeply to anyone I might have offended.

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    -------- In Soviet Russia, "Soviet Russia" sigs hate Slashdot.

  2. Decent binary file comparison tool? by AbRASiON · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since we're on the topic of good tight code vs bloatware (well we kind of are)

    Where can I go to request an application be developed, preferably open source
    (bear in mind, I can NOT code to save my life)

    More info below.

    I specifically need a really really good application for finding binary duplicate files.

    I've tried
    "Duplicate files manager" (Clone Killer)
    Has bugs where it gets a fale positive and some files are not 100% binary dulpicates, very bad stuff >:(
    Not a BAD interface but could be better.

    Duplic8 (works well but REALLY bad interface)

    DFL: absoloutely ancient was great in it's time though

    XX??: an assortment of ones I found on google of which they all had flaws I didn't like.

    There's several problems with these kind of programs, normally it's the RESULTS view when the scan is complete.
    You need a good easy to manage listing of the files which were duplicated.
    sort/group by size
    Sort/group by path
    etc etc

    Basically when the program is finished you want results which are virtually in a database form so you can really easily work with the data and kill the files easy.
    Exporting to another application would suck, I want to just sort within the searchin application itself and delete from within it.
    (if you export to .txt / excel or ms access then sure you get nice sortable results, but then you need to Windows explorer browse to the folder the data is in to find / delete it)

    On top of this the SEARCH feature generally takes ages (understandable across 400gb of data and 3 hard disks) but it can be sped up with some simple programming techniques that some programs omit.

    Example flags like
    does / does not matter if filename the same
    date / time stamp
    partial CRc check rather than full (100mb file, it checks the first 1mb, the 50'th mb the 99/100'th mbyte only)
    etc

    Anyone know of any? I'd love an open source one, I generally find OSource software better coded and with more features.