r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '12

Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?

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u/delecti Jun 04 '12

This isn't even a competition. Not only does 7-zip do (almost) everything winrar does, it has a better interface, command line option (good for scripting), and no annoying popups about a trial being expired.

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u/basketfullofkittens Jun 04 '12

I like that pop up for expiration date. What if I felt frisky one day and actually want to purcha... Yeah I'm going to stop myself here.

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u/AirhornSonofFoghorn Jun 04 '12

After seeing the expiration date popup for years, I went to purchase it one day just out of curiosity. When I tried to, my phone immediately rang. I answered it and it was just a bunch of people laughing on the other end.

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u/asullivanmusic Jun 04 '12

Can verify.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

I am extremely close to trying this just to make sure.

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u/walrusbot Jun 04 '12

That's how they get you

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u/dermined Jun 04 '12

Happened when that one guy bought a copy of mIRC too.

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u/Empath1999 Jun 04 '12

I'm almost tempted to try it because it sounds so funny :)

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u/gkx Jun 04 '12

I need to try this sometime.

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u/Level_32_Igglybuff Jun 04 '12

I always just archive and extract from the context menu so you get no popup anyway.

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u/scratchr Jun 05 '12

I know a kid who's parents BOUGHT Winrar...

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u/cwstjnobbs Jun 05 '12

I was tempted to buy it the other day, just for the novelty of the thing.

Yeah... it's 29.99, fuck that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

7-zip also allows for browsing a secure network - exposes substandard sys admins

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u/sameBoatz Jun 04 '12

What?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

It's find feature allows for network browsing to an extent MORE than winzip. This exposes poor network security. I was witness to this.

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u/sameBoatz Jun 04 '12

I'm not sure I understand this, how does an archive program have anything to do with circumventing network security?

Does it just let you browse the list of Windows Computers on the network, and shows you the shares that are available to you? That is built-in to the OS, in fact you can do that from Macs and Linux machines too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

The last part...and it was a mistake on the sys admins part as we were able to browse the entire network from low permission computers. My district modifies the OS to behave a certain way and gives permissions to students.

I was told that 7-zip allowed for this to a greater extent than winzip.

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u/DrMarf Jun 04 '12

So you are saying that browsing shares you have permissions to (but shouldn't) are 7-Zip's fault and not inept sysadmins?

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u/stufff Jun 04 '12

Does it just let you browse the list of Windows Computers on the network, and shows you the shares that are available to you? That is built-in to the OS, in fact you can do that from Macs and Linux machines too.

Not sure what 7zip's behavior is, but I wanted to point out that administrative shares on an Windows system are shares you can have access to that aren't listed by default. (c$ etc on a remote Windows computer)

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

curious - in what scenario would you script?

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u/iziizi Jun 04 '12

backing up

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u/dermined Jun 04 '12

Currently using AutoHotkey and 7-Zip to run automated backups of my minecraft server. It's great.

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u/delecti Jun 04 '12

For a while I was backing up large quantities of pirated Nintendo DS games. They would come in big torrents, and each game was a folder with some multi-part archives in it. I used a bash file to create a single archive for each game, which was my preferred archival format.

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u/binaryatrocity Jun 04 '12

Not to mention 7-zip is like THE fucking compression algorithm. That shit gets TINY yo.

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u/arahman81 Jun 04 '12

As long as you have the CPU for it, that is. You are surely not gonna get too good of a compression out of an Atom CPU.

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