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I dare anyone to open 30 tabs of image pages or flash pages

No problem with Opera, its quite a solid browser. But I guess it mainly depends on what are you trying to open, I mean, parsing 30 well written html pages is quite simple for any decent browser, while 30 pages with a lot of active content, possibly badly written, would bring more than some...
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- Post #28
- Oct 23, 2010
- Forum: Windows
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Probability of rock-paper-scissors

Agree. What I meant is that if it was a math homework, I would have responded with the math calculations shown in the thread. Otherwise I would had responded "does not compute!" because the only possible math solution has the logic fallacy of setting by hypothesis the events as true random...
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- Post #15
- Oct 23, 2010
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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alternative to winrar?

A Linux user would say the de facto container is Tar or Zip, a Windows user would say it is Zip or Cab, a Mac user would say Tar, Zip and Dmg: those are the main built-in formats for those OSes without third parts software. Please note that many official installers, when not distributed as...
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- Post #55
- Oct 23, 2010
- Forum: Windows
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alternative to winrar?

I'm sorry bruceb, I like and respect WinRar but the post seems a plain advertising WinRar is no longer the leader of the crowd in terms of compression, the leader today is PAQ and in most cases 7-zip and FreeArc compresses better than RAR. Even newer WinZip compression modes beats WinRar in...
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- Post #52
- Oct 22, 2010
- Forum: Windows
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Forgot my Truecrypt PW...whoops

You could try to restore an older Truecrypt's volume header over the new one, it will reset the password to the old one without touching the files inside the container. If you have not an older header you have only the option to try to guess it or reformat the drive. Next time you could create...
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- Post #12
- Oct 21, 2010
- Forum: Security
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Probability of rock-paper-scissors

Probability of each event is independent, if we see the event as purely random, that i.e. is debatable in a rock-scissor-paper game played between two humans. It is just unusual to get a long streak of same result, but that does not matter on the next event, unless the humans gets influenced...
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- Post #7
- Oct 21, 2010
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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alternative to winrar?

I too would suggest either PeaZip or 7Zip, both free and based on the same open source components. JZip is based on the same components too, so I guess it would be equally fine, but seems a bit outdated as the last version is quite old. PeaZip has some more features, while 7Zip is smaller, in...
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- Post #46
- Oct 21, 2010
- Forum: Windows
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Western Digital's 3TB behemoth arrives...

I agree, green drives, with less speed but less heat and less noise tahn fast disks, are the perfect companion to SSD for bulk data storage. I see hard times coming for fast mechanical disks: SSD are faster and have much more room to improve in next years. Another important advantage is that...
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- Post #20
- Oct 21, 2010
- Forum: Memory and Storage

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