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Migrating from Ethereal to Wireshark is a long and arduous process. A typical migration project requires the following resources:

• 1 (one) project manager (PMP certification preferred)
• 1 (one) assistant project manager
• 2 (two) pirate hats
• 2 (two) system administrators
• 1 (one) duck
• 2 (two) network administrators
• 4 (four) support staff
• 2 (three) bags of hammers

If you allocate full-time staff to the migration, it can take as little as six weeks for preparation and planning, and four weeks for the migration itself. Past migrations have resulted in some maiming and blood loss. A recent survey of human resources directors found that the amounts were within acceptable tolerances.

The complete migration procedure is detailed below:

1. Place the pirate hats near the project manager, assistant project manager, and system administrators. Allow time for them to start fighting over the hats (about 3.5 seconds).
2. Place the duck on top of a core switch and allow it to nest.
3. Casually mention to a support person that you heard a quacking noise near the data center. Allow time for word to get to the network administrators, and for the support staff to gather together to watch the spectacle.
4. To ensure that you're not disturbed, keep the bags of hammers nearby and maintain a stern expression.
5. Uninstall Ethereal.
6. Install Wireshark.

Note: Steps 5 and 6 should take about three minutes.

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Reposted from clifford

“ RARs are a bitch, and VASTLY ILLOGICAL in this context. Movies and other large files are generally split into chunks for Usenet so that one download going to shit doesn\'t bork an entire 700MB+ stream. Torrents are already transferred in \"pieces\" (check that section of your beta BitTorrent client with the custom skin that is completely pointless, yet utterly 1337), and so it\'s not important if one peer fails to deliver a complete chunk.

Your claiming that this AVI in un-RARed form would waste bandwidth just proves how stupid you are. When you downloaded and decompressed it, what happened? Oh, that\'s right: The cumulative RAR file size of 713MB shot ALL THE WAY UP to ... 716MB. That\'s because this (and just about all movies on here) are already compressed. If WinRAR could really compress them much further, then you could be sure that WinRAR would be richer than a shitmonger on sloppy joe night.

I for one was glad that this was RARed so that I could waste all my HDD bandwidth decompressing it for 5 minutes rather than download that extra 3MB at 30mbps. Damn, that extra 2 seconds or so of my life would have been a waste -- the WinRAR progress bar was so much more entertaining. ”

Reposted from deepthought via Sven