This was originally posted on June 18, 2013… to the wrong blog. Oops!

2-step Verification is now enabled for all Sodpit.com Google accounts. You can optionally turn it on for your account if you want to by signing in to your Sodpit Gmail Account and then signing up for 2-step Verification. Again, this is completely optional. You can access this area any time by clicking the icon for your account (your picture) and then clicking Account. I have been using 2-step verification with my @gmail.com address for about 6 months and it turns out it really isn’t that bad.

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Two years to the day, enjoy…

https://sodpit.com/wsi/

WSI is an installer for Windows Sysinternals.

*cough*bullshit*cough* #wtf pic.twitter.com/3KpNmbJF

— 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).

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