This summer, a WinRAR update closed a security vulnerability that allowed code smuggling. It is now being attacked.

A discussion about whether unrar should be unfree or unfreeRedistributable arose in #415776 (comment). This involves the interpretation of the unrar license: whether we should declare agreement of the ...

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The original proposal for the World Wide Web, written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, is an important piece of internet history. It also can't be opened on modern computers. John Graham-Cumming, a British ...

Microsoft wants you to use the cloud, but there are a lot of good options — including trusty old network file sharing and a little-known modern Windows feature. Remember the HomeGroup on Windows 7?

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I made a small program to display if a rar file is solid. It works for most rar files, but not if there is a unicode char in the file name. Looking with strace the file name is getting truncated just ...

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