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— Darren Winter (@sgtd) June 20, 2012

Directory assistance (411) was originally provided for free by phone companies for their local customers. Over the last few decades phone companies have started to charge between .75¢ and $2.00 per call in an effort to generate more revenue. Currently US customers place roughly 6 billion 411 calls annually.

This page shows some free alternatives for 411 directory assistance.

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Officially down for 10 days, unofficially jacked for weeks. I’m a huge Linux fan, but this is just embarrassing.

I thought it would be fun (and fair) to see an image that was a kind of “reverse slam” against the old “Good evening Mr. Gates, I’ll be your server today!” artwork (see below) while at the same time pointing out the sad state of affairs with the Linux servers. I am not an artist and this is NOT my work, full credit is given to the real artists (below).

Click here to download the Paint.NET file.

“Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011. The Linux Foundation made this decision in the interest of extreme caution and security best practices. We believe this breach was connected to the intrusion on kernel.org.

We are in the process of restoring services in a secure manner as quickly as possible. As with any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately. We are currently auditing all systems and will update this statement when we have more information.

We apologize for the inconvenience. We are taking this matter seriously and appreciate your patience. The Linux Foundation infrastructure houses a variety of services and programs including Linux.com, Open Printing, Linux Mark, Linux Foundation events and others, but does not include the Linux kernel or its code repositories.

Please contact us at info@linuxfoundation.org with questions about this matter.”

-The Linux Foundation

Artwork Credits

Wrinkled Vista Flag by BadlyDrawnDuck:

From the post EVE Online for Linux… dead. (Feb 12, 2009), Sad Tux by Bryan Lunduke:

Inspired by the original Good Evening Mr. Gates, I’ll be your server today! image by Penguin Computing:

PrinterShare Mobile Print (Amazon Appstore) – Free for One Day Only! (Normally $12.95).

With most mobile phones there is no built-in method for printing. PrinterShare for Android allows you to print almost anything from anywhere to any printer (WiFi, Bluetooth and Google Cloud Print).

PrinterShare has always been considered to be expensive as far as mobile apps go, weighing in at $12.95 normally, but for today only it is 100% FREE (at the time of this writing there are only 14 hours remaining).

You will have to sign up for an Amazon Appstore account (if you haven’t already) and you will need to establish a 1-Click payment method on the site with your credit card (this is required, even for free purchases). You will also need to install the Amazon Appstore application on your phone (the site will step you through the process). Optionally you can view this email message on your phone to install the Amazon Appstore application from the attachment or by clicking the link. Once Amazon Appstore is installed you might need to sign in, both on the web and on your phone.

Once all of that is done you should be able to load the PrinterShare Mobile Print (Amazon Appstore) web page on your computer and install it using "Get now with 1-Click" button to install PrinterShare on your Android -OR- you can simply run the Amazon Appstore app on your Android to get and install the PrinterShare app.

Immediately after installing PrinterShare you can print to any WiFi or Bluetooth printer within range of your Android.

If you use Google Chrome you can turn on Google Cloud Print (Wrench > Options> Under The Hood) to start setting up local and network printers that you can later print to – from anywhere! You can optionally add the Print Using Google Cloud Print extension to Google Chrome. Click here to learn more about Google Cloud Print.

Pass it on!

This is my mini-review of Duke Nukem Forever, specifically the single player campaign. Basically this post is just some of my random thoughts about the game overall. I bought the Balls Of Steel edition which included the early access DNF demo and offered extras that I don’t think other versions might have.

Possible spoiler warning: bail out now if you don’t want to know.

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Before all of the gaming clans (Stormtroopers Of Death, etc. – hmm, does anyone know the name of the first (and only other) clan I was in?), before TCP/IP really took off, back before I worked on networking… it was all about daisy chain IPX/SPX networking and Duke Nukem 3D, which at the time was second only to the original DOOM.

After 12 to 13 years the brand new, long rumored, longer ridiculed, version of Duke Nukem titled “Duke Nukem Forever” (DNF) is finally being released this Tuesday, June 14, 2011.

This post discusses the recent leaks of both the leaked DNF Demo and the leaked DNF Full version. Hit the jump for more information.

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Introduction

This may seem a little off-topic, but I haven’t updated here in a very long time other than the Web Browsers Downloads page which I hope some of you have found helpful.

Anyway, if you have an Android, read this.

This post is designed to help you with your Android device and includes information on how to locate and install apps using the browser on your PC.

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