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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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Possible Firefox Bug: Cannot open downloaded HTML documents

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/04/08
I’m busy right now and I didn’t have time to look up if this is a bug or not. So here’s a quick record in case I decide to tackle it later on. Environment Operating System: Microsoft Vista Ultimate 64-bit Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is the default browser using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x Preconditions While doing research for my white paper, I [...]
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OpenOffice.org OpenSolaris Build Presentation

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/03/26
I had to present my work-to-date on the OpenOffice.org OpenSolaris Build project. Here’s the presentation I put together. Download the OpenSolaris Build presentation [in PDF format]
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Sun Software Stack

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/03/01
I have a lot of Sun in my computer, but no more brightness than usual. I have installed the following Sun-related software: VirtualBox 2.1.4 on my Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit PC created a virtual machine from an OpenSolaris 2008.11 DVD I had received via mail by Sun for free using VirtualBox had to download Sun Studio 11 in my [...]
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Virtual Virtualization Pains

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/02/28
Since I only have one desktop PC for my use, I was not about to be crazy and re-format it with OpenSolaris for my project. Software and hardware have come a long way from the days where you had to have multiple partitions to boot to in order to use different operating systems. Nowadays, virtualization [...]
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Choosing an OpenOffice.org Project

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/02/25
We finally received a list of projects from the OpenOffice.org (OOo) Education Project (wiki page). After going through the lists I’ve decided on completing the OpenSolaris build documentation. I have two main reasons: I wouldn’t mind learning more about the build system It would be an excuse to use OpenSolaris and see what’s so different about it from [...]
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OpenOffice.org Goes Silent without Java

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2009/02/16
Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit) After installing OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 (OOo for short) without the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (filename: OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe), the option to register my copy had come up but the regular wizard did not run as expected. I had forgotten to install the JRE since I recently reformatted my PC. Oops. Regardless, I wanted to [...]
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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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