Hanno's blog - Comments

Diego Elio Pettenò: Old file formats

nospam@example.com (Diego Elio Pettenò) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:24:29 +0100

I think that one of the most absurd file formats that I tried to open recently has been Microsoft's "MDI" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Document_Imaging_Format for details).

It's a bastardization of TIFF, and as far as I can tell no Linux software seem to be able to transcode this to something more useful; I had to go through a Windows install with Office to open and convert them to TIFF for a customer two months ago.

Bernd: Old file formats

nospam@example.com (Bernd) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:12:53 +0100

I have some files laying around as Corel Draw vector graphics, file extension CDR.

Those files were created with some demo/tryout versions of CorelDraw 3 to 6, back in time when CorelDraw was the de facto standard for vector drawing on Windows. I never managed to open or convert those files with any free software.
(Recent Inkscape claims to open these files but I don't get valuable content.)

Besides the free software thing: CorelDraw is still available but has lost its major market share. So it's even hard to find someone who has CorelDraw installed.

Atalanttore: Keine Ahnung und das soll auch so bleiben

nospam@example.com (Atalanttore) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:05:08 +0100

Eingebildete Betonköpfe gibt es viele. Viele arrangieren sich mit solchen Typen (früher auch "Mitläufer" genannt) oder gehen ihnen einfach aus dem Weg.

Das Schlimme daran ist nur, dass so jemand zum Oberbürgermeister einer größeren Stadt gewählt wird.

Anonymous: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com () — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:44:32 +0100

It seems that upstream wants the package to be called unar (since it is just command line utilities without GUI). They have asked Debian maintainers to change name from theunarchiver to unar.

Karl: Einweg oder Mehrweg?

nospam@example.com (Karl) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:14:10 +0200

Ich verstehe die Antwort von Alnatura so, dass, da die Alnaturaprodukte nicht nur in Alnatura Supermärkten vertrieben werden, sondern auch bei dm und anderen, die keine logistische Lösung für die Pfandrücknahme haben. Deshalb können sie die Flaschen nicht als Pfandflaschen vertreiben, da Reseller wie dm erst eine Infrastruktur für Pfandflaschen aufbauen müsste, oder die Produkte aus dem Programm nehmen.

(Die Rückmeldung an das Produktmanagement könnte heißen: Eventuell arbeiten sie daran, dass Reseller Pfandflaschen entgegennehmen können, und Alnatura sie abholt.)

Hanno: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com (Hanno) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:13:05 +0200

7z's rar unpacking code is from the original unrar and non-free. 7z itself is GPL, but only if you remove the unrar code. Thus, for example, the Gentoo package ships without rar unpacking capability.

AzP: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com (AzP) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:20:08 +0200

Let's make a stronger case for 7-zip! I promote going to torrent-sites (which I guess is the strongest promoter of tar) and request/promote the use of a better compression algorithm, i.e. 7-zip.

The client is a also a lot better than Rar, and can unpack all different formats, including rar.

Andrius: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com (Andrius) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:10:06 +0200

TheUnarchiver works very well. Although it always creates GNUStep folder in my home dir. I guess thats the standard behaviour for GNUStep programs...
Thanks for writing this ebuild!

Ben: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com (Ben) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:35:15 +0200

At least he's not using an accent (it`s), as many people do. Would be much worse than mixing up it’s and its.

@Hanno: Thanks a lot, I'm going to try it soon.

laslalslfaksfj: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com (laslalslfaksfj) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:20:22 +0200

I'm sure some day you'll learn how to differentiate "it's" from "its".

mAhdi: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com (mAhdi) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:14:06 +0200

It shall either directly depend on dev-libs/icu or >=gnustep-base-1.22.0 which enforces ICU useflag, when compiled against gnustep-base-1.20.1 which is at the moment stable it breaks on missing unicode/ucnv.h

and of course thanks for bringing this to the gentoo world :)

Hanno: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com (Hanno) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:39:06 +0200

I tend to stick with the upstream name as close as possible, so I've chosen the uppercase names, although I don't like them much either...

Anton: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com (Anton) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:34:31 +0200

I would actually like to run "emerge theunarchiver" . Hope, Halcy don't mind. It's so difficult to remember case sensitive names..

halcy: Free rar unpacking code

nospam@example.com (halcy) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:57:28 +0200

If you need help getting parts of the unarchiver to work, I've been working on its tar unpacker, so I usually have linux (64bit) executables sitting around. Great to hear it is getting adopted into use by people.

I'm not sure how new the newest release is, but if it's a while old, the current version from mercurial should contain vastly improved commandline tools (such as lsar, which now supports long listings that actually have some useful information).

Brane2: The sad state of the Linux Desktop

nospam@example.com (Brane2) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:26:28 +0200

Update on that 3-monito setup thing.

I have finally got it to work. First with closed-source drivers and then, after system crashed and I decided to use open source drivers when seeking the path out of hell, I have managed to get it to work even with open source driver.

It just has to be given right parameters.

Which are not that easy to find. Just a moment before Google decided to give me the f**k-off, I have stumbled on the link where it was explained.

Finally. After more than a !?&!$%# two weeks. :o/

But this is kind of normal for Linux, right ?