[geeks] Dell T105 Server, CPU and RAM upgrade

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Thu Mar 19 22:28:42 CDT 2009


Nate wrote:
> WinRAR on the other hand permitted created very large archives a lot  
> sooner and also had a much more intelligent segmenter that allowed you  
> to segment as you created the archive, supported storing NTFS file  
> streams and extended attributes, and could also easily make a self- 
> extracting segmented archive and optionally add a parity check file to  
> permit verifying archive integrity later.  As you might imagine, the  
> RAR format was a much better choice for sharing large archives on  
> Windows.

OK, that makes a lot of sense.

> These days I recommend most people just use the open-source 7zip  
> program in Windows,


Seconded.  7-zip is excellent.


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