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Passed the CompTIA Project+ (2009 Objectives)

I just finished the exam CompTIA Project+ (2009 Objectives). So, I am certified IT Project Manager 😉 Number of questions: 100 Length of test: 90 minutes Passing score: 710 on a scale of 100-900 Recommended experience: One year of managing, directing or participating in small- to medium-scale projects Language: English Exam code: PK0-003 I got […]

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URL Shorteners – an exhaustive list

Let me know if I missed any. The list is sorted alphabetically. ad.ag bacn.me bit.ly br.st budurl.com cli.gs doiop.com dwarfURL.com fb.me goo.gl ht.ly idek.net is.gd k.im kno.li lnks.it lu.mu memurl.com moourl.com notlong.com ow.ly pigf.lu qls.me r2me.com readthisURL.com reg.cx shorl.com smal.ly sn.im snipurl.com su.pr surl.co.uk tiny.cc tinyurl.com tr.im traceurl.com twitpick.com u.nu url360.me urls.im urlTea.com weburl.me wp.me […]

Antivirus News Spam & Phishing

PayPal security warning email with malware

PayPal security warning email with malware There is a new wave of emails pretending to come from Paypal having a ZIP archive attached. The email says that your PayPal account have been accessed by a third party and, in order to protected your account, PayPal has been locked.The user is invited to review the report […]

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Goodbye Twitterfeed.com, Hello HootSuite.com (updated)

Until now, I used Twitterfeed.com to publish several RSS Feeds to Ping.fm and from there to several social media networks like Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Yahoo and Flickr. For quite some time now, TwitterFeed is no longer compatible with Ping.fm. I’ve been quite patient and supportive with both Ping.fm and Twitterfeed.com . I even created bugs […]

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When the whales fly (or Twitter hiccups)

From time to time, the users of Twitter are unable to login on the official website. Sometimes the screen below can be seen, sometimes just a timeout error. Interesting enough, after you refresh a couple of times, you are able to do whatever you were trying to do, and then never get this error until […]

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Deadlock-Proof Your Code: Part 1 & 2

In today’s world of multicore computing, it’s important to make sure that your multithreaded applications scale. A longstanding approach for making the most of multiple processors is to arrange for different resources to be protected by different synchronization objects, or locks. A drawback of this approach is that a bug in your threading model can […]

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The wrong way of being in the news

“70 Romanian Phishers & Fraudsters Arrested On March 4th, FBI Director Robert Mueller was given a speech on Cybercrime to the RSA conference where he mentioned that: And we have worked with the Romanian National Police to arrest more than 100 Romanian nationals in the past 18 months. Four years ago, several American companies threatened […]