Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoRemember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.message-squaremessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1232arrow-down17
arrow-up1225arrow-down1message-squareRemember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squareBigFig@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoAnd then you get it all off the floppy’s only to realize 10% of it is corrupted
minus-squareBigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoAnd that’s when you learned about parity files… When par2 came out that was huge for me. Didn’t use floppies anymore, but the ability to only download the required amount of parity blocks was great.
And then you get it all off the floppy’s only to realize 10% of it is corrupted
Oh yes. CRC Error was it?
And that’s when you learned about parity files…
When par2 came out that was huge for me. Didn’t use floppies anymore, but the ability to only download the required amount of parity blocks was great.