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Recent content by salsantana

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    Behind this shrill shrieking scream, a WTF can I do to disappear virtual "CD Drive (E)" ???

    Greetings once again gurus, I've gotten a UseNet account at both NewsDemon and Eweka.nl, using Forte Agent 6 to snatch binaries...... no, not THAT kinda "snatch".... the verb, not the noun :) Trivia: "imbecile" is both a noun and adjective, invented by Sigmund Freud as part of his 3-tiered...
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    a 4GB file that's made entirely of 0's when viewed in hex editor.....?!?!?!

    First, thank you DVDR_Dog for the response. Ah-hah....... yes, in my years using UseNet portal alibis.com (R.I.P.?) I became quite familiar with the PAR utils like Quickpar. And I'm just able to comprehend what you're saying about compressed data susceptibility to corruption. It sounds as if...
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    The Benefits of Using VPN Services

    ericjohn I have been a DCS flight simulator addict for several years. Between VAST terrains, accurate physics, real clouds, smoke,etc. I'm sure there's GB's per second flying through my broadband cable and of course GPU and CPU. I'd just left my ExpressVPN client running continuously but began...
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    a 4GB file that's made entirely of 0's when viewed in hex editor.....?!?!?!

    Several years ago I had to pawn a laptop. Before doing so, I'd transferred a .rar file of a directory over network using Windows XP on both ends........ it was via "Network Neighborhood" or its XP equivalent. Why this matters I'm not entirely sure. I've tried to UNRAR with WinRAR, 7-ZIP, and...
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    hello, new and old :)

    So happy to see "ThumperDC" on another site and see this link more than worked. Re: the thread's title: I won't be surprised if I'm the oldest user. There's a "5" in my year of birth and it's not the last digit :) The best part of being old is I experienced the 70's and 80's to their fullest, or...
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