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Authentication Loop with .htaccess Protected Pages

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2010/01/28
DRAFT After trying out my .htaccess scheme to protect my WordPress installation I was running into an endless pop-up of authentication pop-ups. I searched around and found a post by DianeV on the WP forums: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/113881#post-546028 She links to a post she made back in 2007 (yikes) entitled: WordPress admin password protection 404 http://developedtraffic.com/2007/05/27/wordpress-admin-password-protection-404/ She points to a support issue [...]
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Installing WordPress Securely on DreamHost

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2010/01/26
DRAFT After my WordPress website was hacked into, I began to look into all the options and advice for setting it up securely. http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress Step 1: Getting the Latest WordPress Version I like to use the shell for this since it saves on downloading it on one of my computers and then transferring it onto a remote server. Login [...]
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My WordPress Installation Hacked on Netfirms

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2010/01/24
DRAFT I was looking over some settings on my website earlier and I just happened to check on my Google Webmaster Tools account where I discovered that something was not quite right. Google’s site crawler was reporting that there were 24(?) unlinked pages on one of my WordPress pages. I clicked through to find that there [...]
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Discounted Windows 7 Professional Upgrade for Canadian Students Now Available

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/10/22
Microsoft has really opened up to students in recent years, offering their flagship products at a dramatic price reduction. Most MSDN software is even free, including their Visual Studio line of products. Anyways, I’m here to say that Microsoft has already added Windows 7 Professional Upgrade (Wikipedia comparison of editions) to their student discount program. At TheUltimateSteal.ca, [...]
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Office 2007 Service Pack 2 – Now with more goodness!

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/04/29
That’s a tasty service pack! Microsoft Office 2007 is now at Service Pack 2 and this one’s big. From an updated version of Office 2007 SP1, it was 350.3 MB on my Windows Vista PC. That’s a lot of ones and zeros. What’s great about this Service Pack is that it adds full support for OpenDocument Format [...]
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CIPS Toronto – Discussion on Work-Life Balance

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/04/28
I just returned from my first CIPS Toronto event. After being a member for just under a year, I finally found a meeting time that fit in with my schedule. Since I’m back at RBC for another summer term, it also put me much closer to the location: the Groundhog Pub. Upon arriving at the basement [...]
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Building OpenOffice.org from Source (Notes)

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/02/11
I lost some of my previous entries, but below are some notes I made while going about compiling OpenOffice.org for the first time(s). In the following notes, I usually use “==” or “Tiago” or “TJ” as markers to myself. I wish I could highlight those markers, but they are there! 29-30 January 2009 configurations errors dmake errors 4 February [...]
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