2010-04-28

[ghacks] save disk space with UPX

Howdy geek friends, I posted a new article on gHacks. It's about executable files, transparent compression, scripting, and weird Polish ex-girlfriends (though I'm not sure about the latter).
ohmygod, this logo is awful.
on my way for a logo proposal
Disk space is cheap, but there are still situations where you'd like to reclaim space.
For me, one of them is getting the maximum of the free Dropbox account I use to synchronize my applications between work and home --
hey, don't say my sysadmin I do this, he'd get a heart attack from the sole thought of a virus among my tools collection--.
Of course {zip/rar}ing everything is a no-go; nobody wants to have to open an archive before being to launch an application. So what?
Read the article on gHacks.