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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 […]

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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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“Internet Service Providers have a pessimistic view of the future” ?!?

I read this article from Heise ( http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Internet-Service-Providers-have-a-pessimistic-view-of-the-future-917562.html) and I couldn’t stop asking myself : WHY ?! I mean where is the problem in building a better protection from inside ? Why Inside ? Because most of the attacks come from inside their network or from the networks from their own partners. So, guys, sit […]

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About the APR’s Memory pools which seem to cause memory leaks

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Portable_Runtime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_pool http://dev.ariel-networks.com/apr/apr-tutorial/html/apr-tutorial-3.html http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch08s05.html The APR pools are some big tables which contain references to consecutive memory areas which are used by the application. Once the application releases such an area, the pool marks the memory area as available, but it doesn’t give it back to the OS. Let’s take an example which better […]