• digger
          15·
          17 days ago

          I made SO many self-extracting archives back in the day. My friends just couldn’t be bothered to use 7zip.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zone
            6·
            17 days ago

            I still to this day don’t know how it worked, but I remember back when I would pirate games and often there would be like 20 different compressed archives, but somehow you only need to decompress one of them and the game would install. Was like magic.

            • amelore@slrpnk.netEnglish
              11·
              17 days ago

              Multipart archives still exist. They’re now used for file sharing websites that have a maximum file size. Before that they were for unreliable p2p networks, so you didn’t lose the parts you’d already downloaded when your peer goes offline. Originally it was to fit something big on multiple cd-roms or floppies.

              Opening somthing.rar also reads the data in somthing.r01 through somthing.r15 etc

              • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
                2·
                17 days ago

                Opening somthing.rar also reads the data in somthing.r01 through somthing.r15 etc

                Oh so it’s just kinda a part of the rar specification then? How did that work on CDs or floppies, if presumably you’d have had to swap out to insert the next part?

                • amelore@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  3·
                  17 days ago

                  Yes, it asks for the next part if it’s not in the same folder with the same name, doesn’t really make a difference what it’s stored on. Multipart zip and tar also exist.

            • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
              2·
              16 days ago

              Most compression programs offer a way to separate your thing in multiple parts, I know 7zip and Peazip do.

              I’ve recently had to properly rename the latter part of a multipart zip because the source I got it from probably just renamed the parts it stole from elsewhere, which broke the whole “extract part 1, everything else comes along!”

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    30·
    17 days ago

    Shout out to that time when I was like 11 and tried to download a lil bow wow song and my sister and I were greeted with a full screen p-in-v POV amateur porn on the family computer.

  • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.mlEnglish
    271·
    17 days ago

    Literally the first thing I do on every new computer I’ve used in the last 20 years or so is change the setting to show all file extensions. It’s always been scummy of Microsoft to hide those details and can only be justified at all by the notion that they want to make people dependent on their icons…which is a decent business justification and a horrible moral justification.

  • can@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    17 days ago

    Soulja boy used to do this but instead of executables he’d put his songs. Genius strategy.

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    204·
    18 days ago

    My Linux machine goes… no permission to execute. I go “dang, not what I was looking for.”

        • MehBlah@lemmy.world
          2·
          17 days ago

          I don’t miss going out on service calls and explaining to parents the reason why their internet is really slow is little jimmy or little lucy has been downloading Hentai porn.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    8·
    17 days ago

    Fun thing, the last time I used LimeWire was actually in Linux. So obviously I was immediately highly suspicious about .exe results. (Wouldn’t even have been able to run them anyway. Wine was far less functional back then.)