Cheater + Status

Post by **KarZyX** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:44 am

Look that cheater on your server

http://membres.lycos.fr/headquaker/democheat.dem

Post by **Dodgy Bob** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:33 am

No doubt about it, mind you, he didn't really try and hide it

Post by **CheesyPeteza** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:03 am

http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=76319

BTW KarZyX heres another URL WinZip

The Glass Boy is banned, thanks for the cheat report.

# 3 "The Glass Boy" 430 STEAM_0:1:2541176 18 11:35 0 0

Post by **viper** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:56 am

winzip? didnt that die with the advent of rar and ace files? and god knows what other compression tools.

n1 on the cheat reoprt btw, pretty obvious that 1.

Post by **Neoptolemus** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:07 am

nah, it just got integrated into winxp, so there's not as much need to download it anymore. Zip seems to be still the favorite over everything else, nearly every file i download is either an exe or a zip

Post by **CheesyPeteza** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:37 am

I turned off that winxp zip integration thing. Really annoying. When you open up a folder it opens up all the zips to see whats in them to make a folder like structure. So great anytime when you open a folder with some zip files in it you have to wait ages...

Compression hasn't really got any better in decades. I remember on my Amiga everyone used LHA, then along came LZH that could compress 3% better and everyone started to switch over. But then you had compatibility issues, everyone had LHA, not everyone had LZH. Different interfaces to the tools.

Its the same with Zip files now. If you can compress a file to a 10th of its size, 1 or 2% difference in file size really isn't important. What is important is the portability and ease of use. Thats why Zip although not being the best at compression wins IMO.

:rant:

Post by **Dodgy Bob** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:29 pm

I agree, I've stuck with Winzip and only use the others when forced to.

Post by **XenoMorF** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:32 pm

i use xp zip, but where i have to i use winrar (much easier then winzip)

Post by **viper** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:37 pm

just use winRAR. its an all-in-one so to speak - reads any compressed file. its way better than winzip therefor wins IMO. although the compression is not much better, it just has more versatitliy than other compression tools.

winrar is a total winzip replacement.

Post by **Xerxes** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:39 pm

Thanks for reporting this KarZyX and for posting the demo. We appreciate people helping us keep the server free of lamers.

Post by **Mr Banks** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:52 pm

winACE tbh =)

Post by **Spawnage** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:53 pm

RAR RAR RAR

RAAAAAAWRRRRRRRRRRRRR

RAR2win tbh

:wink:

Post by **hashar** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:57 am

Out of topic:

who need compression now a day ? Having 3x 120GB hard drive together with a 2048/256 kbps internet connection ...

It's not like the good old time of 10MB hard drives with 3200bps internet connection

)

I haven't burn a cd for like 2 years, I just buy new hard drives

)

In topic:
tar / gzip

Post by **qwe** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:10 am

hashar wrote:Out of topic:

who need compression now a day ? Having 3x 120GB hard drive together with a 2048/256 kbps internet connection ...

It's not like the good old time of 10MB hard drives with 3200bps internet connection )

I haven't burn a cd for like 2 years, I just buy new hard drives )

In topic:
tar / gzip

Until your hard drives die and you lose everything :lol:

Post by **Neoptolemus** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:54 am

i cant afford a 120gb HDD, i have a 60gb but its partitioned to share with the family so i only get 20gb, and i cant get anything faster than 512k 60/30 ADSL in my area (cable is unavailable), so compression is my friend.

and how much does 3x 120gb and a 2048/256 connection cost?! jesus i would probably have to save up for a year for all that stuff.

Post by **pappaJ** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:02 am

Neoptolemus wrote:i cant afford a 120gb HDD, i have a 60gb but its partitioned to share with the family so i only get 20gb, and i cant get anything faster than 512k 60/30 ADSL in my area (cable is unavailable), so compression is my friend.

and how much does 3x 120gb and a 2048/256 connection cost?! jesus i would probably have to save up for a year for all that stuff.

Get a hitatchi 400Gb drive instead? It goes for about 350 euro i think..

Post by **Spawnage** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 11:22 pm

3x 120 gb about 300 euro me thinks

my 2048/512 costs me 44 euro p/m

Post by **newbie** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 12:38 am

my 512/128 costs 55 euro p/m

Post by **viper** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:59 am

ur gettin ripped off m8...

i pay Â£30 a month for ~1.5mb down, ~512k up.

Post by **newbie** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:17 pm

I fully realise that. However i live in Ireland. Every isp (well all 2 of them) charge between 55-65 euro. Im on the cheap one.

Post by **georonin** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:34 pm

viper- wrote:ur gettin ripped off m8...

i pay Â£30 a month for ~1.5mb down, ~512k up.

who is that with, i cant find anythin with an upload of greater than 256

Post by **viper** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 2:04 pm

nah... its gone back down now... ntl must have been having problems. and its not quite 1.5mbit yet - was supposed to be getting upped in august. it is 256k up, 1mb down.

ntl are rumoured to be going up to 1.5mbit.. rumours i prooved by phoning and asking. i only said that cos they are upgrading, which will be a free upgrade.

Post by **georonin** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 2:21 pm

ok cheers

Post by **sprouts42** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:38 pm

The NTL upgrade should be sometime this month. Also WinRAR is by far the best once you have paid for it.

Post by **CheesyPeteza** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:09 pm

winrar has to be the worst compression tool ever created. :O

Dunno how you can say its the best.

It doesn't even let you select the directories you normally extract to. Doesn't let you create a folder. You cannot see the directory structure without traversing a load of pages. It also looks really ugly.

It sucks!