• On Life and Love

    Howzat work?

    8/12/2005 /

    Lissa: Dr. 7 came in to congratulate me–a bug in my profile in KoL that he reported caused a system wide bug fix, and my fucking zip file is extracting. WO: It is?! WO: How? Lissa: PkZip is smart enough to just fucking extract the files one by one without trying to play mommy and tell me what’s wrong with file #27462272 when I care about file #1. WO: Yay! WO: Wait. WO: P… K…? WO: Are you seriously using pkZip? WO: I mean, like, Grampa PK? Lissa: The old PkZip program? Yeah. Version 8.0 for Windows […]. Courtesy of Dr. 7. WO: Awesome. Yes, Grampa PKZip saved my bacon:…

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  • On Life and Love

    *sputter sputter*

    8/11/2005 /

    I have a 6 GB zip file containing my last two years of data. My laptop is clean and reloaded and fairly lacking in personality. The file is FUCKING corrupt. “Unexpected end of archive.” A hex editor revealed that the zip has a valid header and listing of files. Hell, I can browse the goddamn archive in WinRAR. But I can’t extract anything. The barf is in some file near the end of the file (I know my music files were the last things to be compressed). But I am not fucking permitted to extract any fucking thing. *deep breath* No tool used yet has been able to successfully repair…

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    Good reading material.

    8/9/2005 /

    “A Hummer to make you happy?” – Honestly, do you really need that square boat? “Dear Holiday Inn” – Wanna stay at a Holiday Inn in Buffalo? Hmm… I think she’d suggest you reconsider. “Why I prefer no tabs in source code” – To tab or not to tab? I tab. “Outlook 2003 – Thunderbird Smack Down” – I recently switched to Outlook 2003. Of course, it’s freely available to me as a student at Rose, so that helps. “Bloody meta” – Not reading material per se, but a funny view, nonetheless. Violence warning. A review of Sheila Jeffrey’s Beauty And Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices In The West – I…

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