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Archive for November 4th, 2011

Some companies that do not verify email adresses on their sites: #Bilderberg #Karwei #KLM #Martinair #Witteveen #Xara #fail

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/04

Below is a list of companies that just blindly start sending SPAM to email adresses you enter on their site, without verifying the person actually wants to be mailed:

  • Bilderberg
  • Karwei
  • KLM
  • Martinair
  • Witteveen
  • Xara

Most of them are giving you a really hard time to unsubscribe when you even haven’t subscribed.

Don’t buy stuff from them…

People notoriously for adding me on those lists:

  • Mr and Mrs Ploemen
  • Mrs van der Kolk

–jeroen

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Zipping .lnk files

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/04

.lnk files are very usefull as they can link to both files and directories.

However, somehow the GUI tools for zipping .lnk files tend to compress the .lnk target, not the .lnk itself.
I tried the Windows Explorer, WinZIP and 7zip GUIs to no avail.

The 7za command-line to the rescue:

7za a -tzip lnk-files.zip *.lnk

Unpacking the zip using the GUI works fine though.

You can get the latest 7za here.

–jeroen

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