ANKUR JAIN

Winzip, one of the most popular archiving software has released the beta of the latest version Winzip 10. From now, it is available in two versions: Standard and Professional.

The release claims to have major usability enhancements, improved compression ratio, splitting of files, Explorer like view, Automatic Update Checking and some extra features in the Professional Edition exclusively like: Winzip Job Wizard and Zip to CD.

But there is no mention about possible improvement in handling of the other archiving formats.

Finally got email from the HR guy, that I’ll be joining my first company at Pune. That means, I need to leave my home and go to Pune. Though I was not expecting to stay in Delhi after joining, Pune was not expected either. But things like these have been happening to me all the time.

I have been expecting that I’ll be offered one or the other thing in Java only, as it is total greek to me and dearest to this company (more than it would have been to Sun Inc.) Though I had upgraded my RAM, installed Eclipse and found some java tutorials as well but did nothing apart from that.

Totally unrelated to this, I finally completed the FreeBSD download and tried to install it in place of Mandrake 10.1. I was trying to install it over the ext3 partitions of Mandrake only but encountered Errors about Disk Geometry. Followed this link:

http://www.paulooi.com/2005/10/13/freebsd-installation/

But it couldn’t resolve my problem. As I didn’t want to risk my system, I thought of installing Fedora Core 3 only.

Some packages need to be installed on FC3 to make it work the way I do. I followed this link : http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc3/ and installed the necessary packages, rest all is left to smartpm.
Running FC3 out of box was quite slow for me, stopped the unrequired services, but still Gnome is quite slow. I guess time for me to go back to WindowMaker.

Microsoft announces its purchase of Teleo, a small Internet calling start-up, as a part of a move to expand the capabilities of MSN Messenger.

Microsoft has its eyes set on something more like Net phone company Skype’s service, however. A key part of Teleo’s technology is focused on making calls from a computer to an ordinary telephone, a feature that company executives said would start finding its way into MSN Messenger before the end of 2005.

- News.com

Google has bought advertising in a handful of technology-industry magazines and resold chunks of the space to merchants already participating in its booming Internet marketing network

- Associated Press

Link to Ads By Google in PC magazine:

http://adsbygoogle.com/pcmag/2005-09-06/

The frightening prediction came as army engineers struggled to plug New Orleans’ breached levees with giant sandbags and concrete barriers, while authorities drew up plans to move about 25 000 storm refugees out of the city to Houston in a huge bus convoy and all but abandon flooded-out New Orleans.

Not counting the dead

The Pentagon, meanwhile, began mounting one of the largest search-and-rescue operations in US history.

- News24.com