-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHUDjDAO0wNI1X4QERAiucAKDP/CwYb0n3JxSrrZObvdMFFiWsvgCffj8M s/cPem/MmVl7BnEa5NRi6vw= =nAfU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
