One good reason: so all of the fucking half ass obnoxious shit that have put into 11 didn’t taint 10.

Thanks! Good to see par2 also mentioned there.

Dont know much about *nix compression but keen to hear about other’s opinions.

I would suggest looking at par files for your corruption concerns. They would add overhead both in time and space but well worth it. I checksum everything I back up so that I can verify it. And par larger files so a bit flip, or more realistically a bad sector or two (thousand) doesn’t break everything.

“Great new taste”

Or

“New and improved”

Oh yeah. I totally agree that the source has its own objective. I wasn’t supporting their specific approach at all.

You are right that the key take away is somene saying “I think my own idea, which I happen to be selling a book about, is great, here are some stats that I have crafted to support my own agenda”

The point I was making was simply that people who care enough to try something, anything, with thought (like looking for a new methodology to try out) are likely to be more successful.

Like a diet. The specific one doesn’t matter so much. It’s the fact that you are actually paying attention and making a specific effort.

It almost sounds like a project team that is actually and actively looking to solve known and recurring problems instead of “just do whatever everyone else is kind of doing” might be why they are successful.

It’s the difference between “how should we go about this” vs “see how we go” regardless of what you label those approaches as.