World: r3wp

If an EM pulse knocks out the PCs everywhere, the one to reboot the 
quickest wins :)

Syllable boots in about ten seconds and shuts down in a few, so reboot 
time would be about fifteen seconds plus the time the machine takes 
to initialize and get to the boot loader

What was the problem with porting C# that you write about?

I believe doc is still working on it.

R# ...

The problem is that Doc stopped working on it

there's a problem with the live cd site

http://www.syllable-livecd.info/

Permission not grated to view the home page.

And there's no one in the torrent swarm.

Hmm.  The Atheos site is worse .. none of the links work for me.

Wow.  Azureus downloaded the live cd for me while I was away at dinner!

Azureus - very good Java based client with all stuff needed - auto-updting 
etc., nice and responsive GUI. I wonder if REBOL would handle such 
app :-)

Except networking I am sure it would do so ...

The live CD site and the other Scandinavian sites are down due to 
a double hard disk failure

What AtheOS site are you trying? The original atheos.cx domain and 
site are hijacked by some thug selling drugs. Our archive of the 
original site was on the Scandinavian server, so it's down

I think you guys are making the cost of entry too high.

How so?

the iso image is compressed with bz2, and now I have to find a japanese 
web site that has lzarc to decompress the bloody thing

It's like a website -- two clicks and I'm out.

BZip2 is very common nowadays. 7Zip does it, for example

If you give up on an operating system if it takes more than two clicks, 
you're not in our target audience

Arrgg... I remember, you're the guy who gives people things in compressed 
format that no one has by default!

Yup :-)

what? Special kind of archiver? Hey guys, get a clue, what you think? 
:-)

becuase such screws I almost always refuse to try new stuff ...

But seriously, I don't know why you would need something odd like 
lzarc

It defeats the purpose of having an iso image.  To make it easy.

You've already pushed a lot more keys here than the two clicks you 
say you're willing to invest ;-)

that goes the same for .rip - fine format - bug ugly .... I want 
to enter all common archives as a directory of some kind ... so I 
want rebol to handle .zip and get rid of .rip

I have windows which has zip support, and I have Dopus for windows. 
 I had to download lharc support the other day.

bug = but

Rip .. crazy.

you change the filename, and it won't decompress anymore!

Graham, I thought you ran Linux and BSD?

Nope, I run XP.

I never got BSD to run properly.

And I only set up servers to run linux.

Then you're most likely to use 7Zip, which does BZip2 IIRC

I simply want my file manager (Total commander) to treat it natively, 
and it does so for .zip, .arj, .rar and probably others - the same 
goes for ftp - just normal as a directory ... so my-file: read %/C/some-dir/some-zip.zip/my-file.r 
:-)

All Unixes have bzip2 installed, most common format after gzip

Yeah, but are Linux users your target audience??

I'm not sure but doesn't Rebol use a version of Bzip for it's compression 
routines?

Yes

ZLib, I think

I would be interested to see how many bytes are saved by using bz2 
vs zip.

Lzarc is 3Mb.

I don't know lzarc; what is it? It's certainly far less common than 
bzip2 and 7Zip

suports: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CDI, 
CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, 
MBF, MDF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, 
TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO

http://www.izarc.org/index.html

it's an izarc and not Lzarc .. misread it.

7Zip is only 1 MB, has a normal English web site and is open source