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Jim Cornette wrote:
David Boles wrote:
>
> All of these are like the famous 'third party' programs that Linux is
> famous for here. Windows can play mp3 files 'out of the box' on install.
> Why? Microsoft paid for the license so that they could include that
> codec in the OS.
Since Linux is free and Windows can just pass on the cost to the
consumer it does not cost them for enhancing their media player. They do
not pay directly for it and their media player is in the forefront.
mp3 used to be available for Linux until dangers arose considering
costly lawsuit possibilities.
As we all know but some refuse to understand. Usually when the Newbies
hit at release time. ;-)
> Zip archive is kinda' free for home use. Rar archive is
pay-for-me
> period from Russia, I think, unless it changed. If you find a 'free'
> 'Rar' utility be concerned. *It* might be a 'bug'. ;-) If you deal
with
> Windows archive files a lot try - 7-Zip. It works on just about anything
> and it is open source. Can't say for Mac, never looked, but there is one
> for Windows and Linux.
I hope the program is not a bug. All I wanted was to extract a BIOS
file. It now concerns me if the extracted BIOS contains malware. Neither
the original BIOS or the downloaded and extracted version work
correctly. Why a file as small as a BIOS update is RARed is bad enough.
You bring forth a good point that anything that you can find to run on
windows for no cost is probably a virus. :-)
If it a real BIOS patch/update, in other words it came from their site,
I would not be concerned about it being a virus. Newer computers have a
built-in utility to update the BIOS. I have never used them. I prefer
the old bootable floppy system because you can *save* the current BIOS
in case the new is a dud.
>
> The pirated porn movies and music usually come as muti-part .rar files.
> The virus and stuff hide there. Among other places.
Porn and Music file transfer is not a worry for me. I am worried now
that the RAR extraction program could be malware.
The file that you have is a RAR that is self extracting. You don't need
an unrar(?) to extract. You need a computer running Windows to execute
the file and it will extract itself. The 7-Zip program that I mentioned
will open this archive and you can extract the contents by hand.
>
> I don't want to start a flame-war here... but... about 90% of the world
> uses Windows of some kind and *all* of us Linux users, total - all
> distributions, is something like 3.3%. Mac is 3.9%. Do you really think
> that almost everyone uses Windows because it does *not* work? ;-)
No flame war needed. I don't even try to convince people to use Linux
vs. Windows any longer. I just install Linux on the computers and let
them battle away with it.
>
> OS Platform Statistics
>
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Good luck.
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David
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