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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by nihilarian on Sunday August 11, 2019 @04:31PM (#20670286)
Right click, create shortcut, 4kb
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by cvs268 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @04:41PM (#20670355)
Reminds me of this one-time a girl at school had copied a shortcut to a DOC file onto the floppy-disk and submitted it at school.

The teacher had a hard time explaining shortcuts to her. The girl kept insisting that the PC at school was broken as the shortcut worked in her machine at home.

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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by sokoloff on Sunday August 11, 2019 @09:15PM (#20671671)
What I hope really happened is that the savvy student bought herself an extra day to complete the assignment!
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by naushniki on Sunday August 11, 2019 @06:34PM (#20670986)
A friend of mine "copied" a bunch of songs from an audio CD to a floppy disk this way.
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by zuuow on Sunday August 11, 2019 @06:49PM (#20671051)
A guy I knew used to reencode his songs as 16 kbps mp3 files to save space. When I told him they sounded horrible, he told me "no problem, I can always reencode them back to 128 kbps!"
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by natpalmer1776 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @04:38PM (#20670331)
I wonder how much disk space a file system link would take.
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by cvs268 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @04:43PM (#20670366)
Typically the filesystem "page" or "inode" size. Usually 4KB.
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by Dylan16807 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:06PM (#20670513)
Page/block size is not inode size. While filesystems very often work in chunks of 4KB, the normal inode size is 256 bytes on ext filesystems and 1KB on NTFS. They get packed together.
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by xNevo on Sunday August 11, 2019 @04:38PM (#20670326)
Wait. That's illegal!
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