Several users have reported a problem where Firefox 1.5 has problems properly recognizing that files with the .dmg.gz extension (disk images that have been compressed using gzip). For the problematic ...

I am trying to use some data, but would prefer to store it in a compressed manner and then access it via a named pipe that is being decompressed to. E.g.: However, this does not complete. I don't ...

I am running ubuntu 10.04. I am new to linux, and I've gotten most things that I need working, however I am having trouble installing tar.gz files. A .tar.gz is not an installer type, it is just an ...

Reducing costs is a key consideration for every IT budget. One of the items looked at most closely is the cost of a company's bandwidth. Using content compression on a Web site is one way to reduce ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

February 28, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google This is a good question, as it seems like every other file you download nowadays is in a different compression ...