Microsoft is a bunch of crooks and imbeciles, burned my copy of xp

Midnight commandor (norton commander clone) allows browsing through archives.

I'm going to have to stop speed reading. ;-)

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The last i saw memtest doesn't get the job done any more.

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If you ever had to endure MSwin95 you would know better that to say that.

Vista is pretty much a total piece of crap, though some people do not have problems with it. People are being very cautious about 7 because of that.

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I don't tolerate auto updates. First it can be very disruptive (clogging even DSL); second some updates i don't want.

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You want a "squash FS" if you want to really mount it. This is how the Puppy Linux file system is stored and mounted. If you have the SFS drivers, you can "loop back" the file and then mount it on other linux versions too.

There are programs that make it look like the zipped archive is mounted and you are browsing the contents with a file browser. What it really is doing is giving you a nice GUI to an unzipping program that can selectively unzip one file out of the archive and put it somewhere or update the archive.

Pick one - imbeciles don't make very effective crooks; they're not smart enough.

A high IQ, you see, is no guarantee of any kind of moral integrity or anything. You can have an IQ of 160, and still be a crook or an asshole. (Lines from "Die Hard") Girl: You're nothing but a common thief! Crook: I am an _exceptional_ thief.

I've met some retarded people, and they're some of the most loving, morally upstanding people I've ever met.

Cheers! Rich

Oh, come on! Have you ever compared it with English? ;-)

Are there homophones like "their", "there", and "they're"? "Metal", "medal", "meddle", and "mettle"? "prick" and "prick"? ;-) Do the Dutch have an apostrophe? That's a whole nother can of worms! >:->

You should check out Mr. Language Person some time. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

I can't understand why MICRO$~1 doesn't just download a copy of the latest Linux kernel (free!), write some eye candy and a "smart" installer, which they _CAN_ copyright under the GNU General Public License,

Or are they just constitionally incapable of admitting they've made mistakes?

Cheers! Rich

A guy meets a girl. Guy: - Oh, I see, you are the software engineer! Girl: - How do you know? Guy: - You have a very stupid face. Girl: - Imbecille!!! Guy: - Yes, I am in the software, too.

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Thats probably happening as we speak. M$ uses quite a bit of common code that they claim to own but we have yet to see proof of that.

English is easy. For starters, the English language doesn't change every now and then!

Yes, the words for 'she' and 'them' are the same -to start with-.

Yes, but we use the apostrophe for some plurals. And there are a huge amount of exceptions and other oddities for plurals and things like word endings that indicate something being smaller. child -> kind small child -> kindje But we can make the child even smaller by adding an extra 'small'. Saying 'small small child' can't be done in English, but it can be done in Dutch. And child is an easy one. In Dutch the order of a sentence (where to put time, place and who did what) doesn't matter. It allows for a much finer grained control over the context. And we can concatenate existing words into official new words on the fly.

Here is a short introduction:

Probably a major case of the 'not invented here syndrom'. Google and Nokia seem to be a lot smarter. Microsoft has lost the battle for the smartphone.

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You didn't see me because you weren't watching. I have done dd from Knoppix as well.

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Does gparted call partimage as well as parted?

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Really? I do not see any reason that it would be significantly different than mounting an .iso via loopback.

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I think that gparted contains all the code that it needs it is not just a shell on a text based call but rather has the workings compiled in. I base this on the difference in the things I have found each does on the same system. I could be wrong about this.

It can't call partimage because there is no copy of it on the machine

An ISO image is an exact copy of an ISO-9660 filesystem, so the same driver which works with a CD will work with an ISO image. The filesystem driver doesn't care whether the data is on a CD-ROM or a loopback device.

The main problem with gzip'd data is that you can't perform random access on it. If you wanted the 12,345th sector, you'd have to decompress everything from the start of the file until you have 12,344 sectors of uncompressed data.

There's no inherent reason why you couldn't write a loopback driver which works with gzip'd data, but even with caching the translation between compressed and uncompressed offsets, the performance would be so bad that there wouldn't be much point.

Similarly, you could write "zipfs", "rarfs", etc filesystem modules for archive formats, but you run into issues due to files not being aligned to sectors, meaning that e.g. mmap() would have to copy the data rather than just mapping the pages from the buffer cache.

Read-write access would also be problematic, as archive formats typically require files to be contiguous, so you would have to move data around every time a file was extended (even if it was the last file, as most archives put the catalogue at the end of the file).

In most cases, it's better to implement this sort of thing at the application level. Both Gnome and KDE have virtual filesystem APIs (GVFS and KIO) which allow applications to open e.g. URLs and files within archives as well as normal files.