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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are your tweets through Tweeterfeed and Ping.fm no longer published ?
Are you using Tweeterfeed and Ping.fm ? Are your tweets no longer published ? Then you didn’t read Twitter’s post here: http://dev.twitter.com/ June 30, 2010 The @twitterapi team will be shutting off basic authentication on the Twitter API. All applications, by this date, need to switch to using OAuth. Read more » So, the solution […]
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 […]
Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 (Karmik-Koala) – install 32 bits libraries on a 64 bits operating system
You have most probably 4 GB RAM and you want to use them all 🙂 The only choice for you is to install Ubuntu 64 bits. But, a lot of software goodies out there are still compiled on 32 bits. Of course, they won’t start on your brand new 64 bits operating system that can […]
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