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I recently discovered the site GrandCentral from someone at PPCGeeks. What it does is allow you to have a single phone number that allows you to send a call to all of your phones, mobile, home, work, or wherever. There are also a lot of different options in there, like changing the sound that people hear when they call, changing what phone(s) ring when certain numbers or groups call and so on. It really is a great looking service. There is also voicemail that stores your messages forever and allows you to forward them and reply to them and so on. One of the best features though is probably the ability to send calls straight to voicemail if they are potential spam or just block spam callers all-together. Granted, there is the national do-not-call registry, but that expires after a certain period of time and isn't completely effective if you get a new phone number. So now you can stop them from calling you. And if you know that you're going to be out and away from your phones, you can have it forward calls to another number temporarily. I've just started using the service, but I can't wait to see everything that can be done. And there are more features, so check out the site to learn more and sign up.

With the release of Windows Vista, there are likely many users that would want to install Windows Vista along side some sort of Linux distribution. The problem arises with two small features of Windows Vista that do not play well with Linux. The first of which, and the main issue, is the new bootloader that Windows Vista uses. The second, which only causes minor issues, is the new NTFS format that is used by Vista. The main installation procedure here is install Windows Vista, see the PROnetworks Installation Guide for details, and then install Linux. This guide will give users the instructions for doing so using the GRUB bootloader do to popularity. LILO, being a significantly less used bootloader, will not be looked at as distributions that have the option for LILO also can use GRUB. Read more »