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Windows 7 Installation

Like many university students I am able to participate in the MSDNAA. Therefore I was compelled to postpone my studies and install Windows 7 on my desktop at home. I started out fairly confident as I had already installed the Beta, RC, and enterprise release on several computers at work including a VM, and I'm pretty good at this type of thing by now. However this one almost defeated me. I can usually handle one or two things going wrong, but it seems that everything went wrong this time. One, the download from MSDNAA was corrupted twice for me, so I had to get an ISO from an alternative source. On top of that, Roxio was not able to correctly burn to DVD as I had suspected from searching forums. I had to download IMGBurn which works great. One of these problems was giving me an error about "CD/DVD driver missing". Third, my system has three different types of RAM, one of the types being a pair. The system will get memory errors unless the sticks of memory are placed in ju...

Google Voice

I just got a google voice account which has gotten a lot of buzz (at least at my office). It's pretty neat since there is no charge to get an account and you can do a lot with it including calling long distance, blocking/screening calls, and forwarding to your cell or home phone. You do have to be invited, but chances are that they will give you an account if you ask nicely. voice.google.com