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I love Linkin Park but I use Linux.
And it doesn't run .exe
So sad. :(
/s
Honestly, I'm surprised it took this long for it to come up.
You're welcome!
I run limewire on an integrated rack of Commodore 64s.
Something something arch
What's that about Arch?
BTW I use it.
And in the end, ItDoesntEvenMat.tar
I tried so hard, to Linux it all
Sure it does, just need a little Wine!
Yes, but no.
The wines for you to drink while angrily trying to get a stupid exe you only need once to work.
linkin_park-numb.mp3.exe.rar.zip
It has mp3 in the name. Must be ok.
It's cool, it's probably just self extracting. For convenience!
I made SO many self-extracting archives back in the day. My friends just couldn't be bothered to use 7zip.
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.
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
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?
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.
So the first file acts as a sort of index? From the earlier comment I thought it was autodetecting the presence of the numbered files and expanding what it found.
It's going to have some metadata to that effect yes, like a file index or number of parts or total extracted file size. I don't know the details, I've used them I haven't read the spec. rar is Rarlab's proprietary format so there might not even be a public spec.
They're normally all the same size except for the last part, so it's not that file 1 is just an index.
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!"
Ahh the memberberries of thems self extractors
My friends would never in a million years run an exe I gave them lol
Someone once said that using limewire was like having unprotected sex with the internet and that person was right.
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.
And then she got stuck in the dryer?
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.
Soulja boy used to do this but instead of executables he'd put his songs. Genius strategy.
Joke's on you, I used Kazaa.
Anyone who was anyone used emule.
Miss the times of downloading a mp3 by leaving the pc turned on the whole night.
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.
My Linux machine goes... no permission to execute. I go "dang, not what I was looking for."
sudo chmod 777
Don't forget the sticky bit and chown root for extra convenience!
You can do set it up to detect a windows exe format and launch it in wine without any extra intervention.
Make sure to chown it to root first with that suid bit to make sure it can get the library and hardware access that needs every time.
Might want to try chmod +x instead
No
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.)
it's cool, I use linux now. It's secure -mostly.
It's an Albany file type.