Microsoft has acquired Winternals Software and Sysinternals

I am a big fan of SysInternals freeware utilities and a regular visitor to Mark’s Blog. Today I have seen a post in Mark’s blog saying he is joining Microsoft

Some of the points from his post:

I’m very pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Winternals Software and Sysinternals. Bryce Cogswell and I founded both Winternals and Sysinternals (originally NTInternals) back in 1996 with the goal of developing advanced technologies for Windows.

What will happen to all those freeware? Here is his answer:

As for Sysinternals, the site will remain for the time being while Microsoft determines the best way to integrate it into its own community efforts, and the tools will continue to be free to download.

Looks like no more new freeware from SysInternals(Not a good news for me ). However Mark is saying that the existing tools will remain free.

Read more about this here

Blog Contests

There is a new site which is blogging about various contests being held across several sites.

Bookmak this and check this regularly for the new contests.You may be interested in some of them.
http://www.blogcontestsite.com/

100 best companies to Work for

Yahoo finance listed out the 2006 list of 100 best companies to for based on different factors. Check if your company is in that list…:)

Interesting thing I have seen there is, many of them or not software companies.:)
http://biz.yahoo.com/special/bestco06.html

Linus Torvalds Says No to Kernel Switching to GPLv3

Linus Torvalds has posted on the Linux Kernel Mailing List today and said that he don’t think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel and he don’t want to convert any of his code.

“The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licenceable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don’t see that changing.”

Read the complete mail here
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273

WordPress 2.0

WordPress 2.0 is out.

There is a change in look and feel of the WordPress.org site also.

Download the latest version here

Changed Host

I was trying the superfreeweb‘s hosting for the past few weeks and it is going down for days. enough pain with the downtimes.I will never use free hosts from now onwards.I have changed my host back to my paid host GoHindi.

Downtime

Sorry for the downtime last night.Facing some problems with the Host. Will change the host if these problems keep coming again.

The Top Ten Design Mistakes

Jakob Neielsen posted the Top Ten Design Mistakes of Weblogs usability here..http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html

Looks like I am also doing some of the mistakes mentioned there… will try to correct soon…

Flock Developer’s Preview

Yet another browser coming into the market…

Some of the features in Flock: * The Blog Manager * The Flickr Topbar * RSS integration * Favorites with del.icio.us integration * The Shelf * History Search

I have just downloaded it and had my first run. Looks almost similar to Firefox. That is what they are also saying, it is entirely built on the Mozilla Codebase…

Try yourself downloading it here…

http://www.flock.com/developer/

OpenOffice 2.0 Is Here

OpenOffice 2.0 is released yesterday.

Go here for details…

http://www.openoffice.org/press/2.0/press_release.html