Re: [Pan-users] [Semi-OT] RAR and par2 files

2009-07-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-05 09:01, CSV4ME2 wrote: On Sunday 05 July 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, If rar v3 has ECC built-in, why are par files still used? Because (on Linux): - par2 is an excellent and higly customizable program/tool and free!, - par2 comes in a mulitithreaded variant, on a quad core is ru

Re: [Pan-users] [Semi-OT] RAR and par2 files

2009-07-05 Thread CSV4ME2
On Sunday 05 July 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > If rar v3 has ECC built-in, why are par files still used? Because (on Linux): - par2 is an excellent and higly customizable program/tool and free!, - par2 comes in a mulitithreaded variant, on a quad core is runs 4 times faster, the linux rar i

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Big XML files... (was Re: Re: Better processing of very large groups?)

2009-07-05 Thread CSV4ME2
On Sunday 05 July 2009, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:39:48 am Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-07-04 17:21, CSV4ME2 wrote: > > > On Saturday 04 July 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> On 2009-07-04 13:57, Matej Cepl wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > >>> I don't

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Big XML files... (was Re: Re: Better processing of very large groups?)

2009-07-05 Thread walt
On 07/04/2009 06:58 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: The missus uses Thunderbird, and as near as we can tell, its spam filtering is crap. She found false negative rates approaching 50% (half the actual spam was flagged as good) and false positive rates approaching 10% (one out of ten good emails was f

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Big XML files... (was Re: Re: Better processing of very large groups?)

2009-07-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-05 03:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 01:30:40 pm Ron Johnson wrote: A few months back, I broke my Kmail config, and decided I'd check out Thunderbird (I haven't used it since it was part of Netscape 3). I gave it a good go, I really did, but it felt like I was being as

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Big XML files... (was Re: Re: Better processing of very large groups?)

2009-07-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 01:30:40 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > > A few months back, I broke my Kmail config, and decided I'd check > > out Thunderbird (I haven't used it since it was part of Netscape > > 3). I gave it a good go, I really did, but it felt like I was being > > asked to do carpentry with my han

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Big XML files... (was Re: Re: Better processing of very large groups?)

2009-07-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 04:18:07 pm Matej Cepl wrote: > Steven D'Aprano, Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:58:28 +1000: > > The missus uses Thunderbird, and as near as we can tell, its spam > > filtering is crap. She found false negative rates approaching 50% > > (half the actual spam was flagged as good) and false p