About to refactor the FreeFixer GUI. Almost done defining the regression tests.

Why I should stop using TweetDeck

I like TweetDeck, but its memory usage is bringing my machine to its knees:

Using 300MB to read a few 140 character long Twitter messages, that is just silly. To put those 300MB in perspective to what the processes normally use on a WinXP machine:

Is this a memory leak in TweetDeck, or is there a general problem with the Adobe AIR platform? What would you suggest to use instead of TweetDeck? Twhirl?

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caresweet.com spam

caresweet.com is spamming and it is bypassing my spam-filter :( The whois data seems to be faked:

Domain Name : caresweet.com
PunnyCode : caresweet.com

Registrant:
Organization : JIANG YANG
Name : JIANGYANG
Address : QUANZHOULUBEILU23
City : ZY
Province/State : SC
Country : cn
Postal Code : 413060

Administrative Contact:
Name : JIANGYANG
Organization : JIANGYANG
Address : QUANZHOULUBEILU23
City : ZY
Province/State : SC
Country : cn
Postal Code : 413060
Phone Number : 86-737-4780259
Fax : 86-737-4780259
Email : din****_156@126.com

Anyone else getting these spam emails?

Trying to fix a nasty bug that only appears 5% of the test suite runs. Must be a buffer overrun or a threading issue :(

PathCanonicalize

PathCanonicalize is the way to go if yo want to remove ".." and "." from a path on a Windows machine. Converting a path to its canonical representation is necessary before doing any equivalence checks. Notice that PathCanonicalize does not remove any back-slashes.

WebCopier v4.3

The user agent "WebCopier v4.3" has #14000 requests during February. Seems like someone is copying the entire FreeFixer web site.

74.6.22.188

Going through the web site stats. On top #4 is 74.6.22.188, which is Yahoo! Slurp, the Yahoo!'s Web Crawler.