Compression is compression is compression. Right? Wrong. There are some compression utilities that eek out every drop of space possible. On the Linux operating system the standard is gzip or bunzip2. But if you’re looking for one of the highest compression ratios to be found you might want to turn your sites to 7-Zip.  7-Zip [...]

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Windows users have quite a few choices when it comes to data compression software programs. They can opt for the commercial dinosaurs WinZip or WinRar for instance or free alternatives like 7-Zip, IZArc and also PeaZip. PeaZip just recently has been updated to version 3 that introduces several new options and features. Peazip 3 is [...]

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I back up a lot. I have scripts that do automated backups and I often backup to CD. But there are times when I want to be able to do a quick and dirty backup of a single directory, in order to email a directory, or so that directory can be added to a later [...]

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Bitser adds itself to the impressive list of file compression programs for the Windows operating system. It stands out because of its interesting interface that resembles Windows Explorer and not a usual file compression program. Most file compression programs use an interface with only one panel that is displaying either the contents of a compressed [...]

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In 2001 reports about Zip Bombs or Zip of Death attacks made the round on the Internet and I thought it would be nice to write about one shiny harmless example of that technique. On first glance the file 42.zip is a normal compressed file with the size of 42 Kilobytes. Many users who run [...]

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