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I have to admit that I absolutely love Office 12, OpenOffice just doesn’t compare! So, I needed to install Office 2007 into Ubuntu. If you do too, follow along with my handy guide!

Install Wine

First off, you need to install Wine. I won’t get into what it is, but you can get more information on the Official Wine site.

1. Add the Wine repository’s key to your system’s list of trusted APT keys by entering the following into the Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal):
   sudo wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
2. Add the repository to your system’s list of APT sources, again in the Terminal:
   sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
3. Update APT’s package information by running the following command (once again, in the Terminal)
   sudo apt-get update
4. If you’re on your Ubuntu machine now, you can install Wine by clicking this link. If not, you can install by going to Applications->Add/Remove and searching for Wine.
   

Configure Wine

Now for the fun stuff!

1. Open Wine. You can do so by clicking Applications->Wine->Configure Wine or by hitting ALT+F2 and entering:
   winecfg
2. Under the Applications tab, set the Windows Version to Windows Vista.
   
3. Under the Drivers tab, click Autodetect to assign a driver letter (D:\) to your CDROM drive (/media/cdrom0)
   
4. Install winetricks by entering the following into the Terminal:
   sh winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1

This will automatically install the following components:

Microsoft XML Parser


Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0


Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003


Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1


When wintricks is finished, it will let you know:


5. Navigate to following folder: ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/
   You can do this via your Home folder (once at your Home folder, hit CTRL+H to display hidden files).
6. We need to make a backup of a .dll file; rename rpcrt4.dll to rpcrt4.bak
   
7. Download a new version of rpcrt4.dll and place it in the Wine system32 folder (from step 5)
8. Open up the Wine Configuration tool again (ALT+F2, winecfg) and click the Libraries tab. In the New override for library field, enter in rpcrt4.dll and hit the Add button.
   

Install Microsoft Office 2007

Now that Wine is all set up, you can install Office 2007!

1. Navigate to your CD-ROM drive and click setup.exe.
2. Enter your product key
3. Click the giant Install Now button (I noticed that the installation progress stays at 0% for a while, but your mileage may vary)!
   

If you click the Customize button, you can chose which components that you want to install. You can also enter your name, initials and company name. This information will be embedded into every document that you create, just like in the PC version.

Clean Up Wine Installation Settings

There are a couple of crucial cleanup and configuration steps remaining - hang in there, we’re all most done!

1. Navigate back to Wine’s system32 folder (~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/)
2. Delete the downloaded rpcrt4.dll.
3. Rename rpcrt4.bak back to rpcrt4.dll.
4. Open winecfg (ALT+F2, winecfg) and remove the rpct4 override we placed in the Libraries tab.
5. Click the Applications tab and set the Windows Version to Windows XP.

You’re all done!

All of the Microsoft Office aplications should now have apperaed in your application menu: Applications->Wine->Programs->Microfost Office

Source

Some of the information used on this how-to was gathered from the WineHQ page for Office 2007.

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I’ve had a lot of trouble finding the answer in the University’s FAQ, but I was able to configure Thunderbird to access the University of Phoenix’s Online Learning System (OLS).

1. Open Thunderbird (duh!)
2. Open Account Settings (on Windows, it’s under Tools. On Linux, it’s under Edit)
3. Click the Add Account button.
   
4. In the New Account Setup dialog, select the Newsgroup account button.
   
5. In the Identity dialog, enter you name and your UoP email address.
   
6. In the Server Information dialog, you need to enter in the classes URL in the format of ClassroomNumber.phoenix.edu. You can find this address by “going” to class in your browser and looking at the URL.
   

   

7. In the Account Name dialog, enter in a name for this newsgroup account.
   
8. Verify the info
   
9. In the main Thunderbird window, right-click the class and click Subscribe (if your promted to accept the security certificate, do so).
   
10. Enter in your UoP user name and password when prompted.
11. Expand the tree and subscribe to any form that you need!
    

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By now, just about everyone knows about the Twitter Command Line Client for Linux. Ever since I started using it, I fell in love and I’ve been looking for something similar for Windows. Well, I’ve finally found it: The Twitter CLI is a simple tool that lets you post updates to Twitter from the Windows Command Line or, my favorite, the Run dialog.

Download

The small file is located at Phalacee.com.

Installation

1. Extract the contents of the Twitter CLI.zip file into your Windows folder, which is located at:
   C:\Windows
2. Open the Twitter.bat file in Notepad (right-click, then choose Edit) and enter your Twitter user name and password in the appropriate fields:
   set username=YourTwitterUserName
set password=YourTwitterPassword
3. Save the file and close Notepad.

Update Twitter Via Command Line

Now you are able to Tweet via your Windows Command Line:

1. Hit the Windows Key+R
2. Type in the following:
   twitter ""
   Enter your status between the quotes.
3. Hit OK or the Enter on your keyboard.

That’s all there is to it! If you want your update to read: I’m eating over my keyboard and making a mess! You would enter:
twitter "I'm eating over my keyboard and making a mess!"

Notes

• The message must be less than 140 characters, which is Twitter’s limit.
• It’s not necessary to use quotation marks in your update but will be needed if you’re inputting a URL in your message:
  twitter "I just added a great picture to Flickr http://tinyurl.com/6r95ur"

Integration With Facebook

You can have this Twitter Window Command Line Client update your Facebook status by using the TwitterSync Facebook application (technically, the CLI client is still updating Twitter. The TwitterSync app just polls your Twitter feed and updates your status). I use it on my Facebook profile.

I prefer this application over Twitter’s Facebook app because it doesn’t add the prefix of: “is twittering:”, though you can add any prefix, if you wish. Also, because you can update Twitter via SMS, you can update your Facebook status via text message! Or, if you don’t want to, TwitterSync wont update if the tweet has a specific prefix (that you set). So, if you sent something like “from cellphone: I hate traffic!!”, then it wouldn’t update your Facebook status!

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This tip is for those of us who attending the University of Phoenix and are running Linux: The ALEKS program in the Center for Mathematics Excellence does not support our OS! I tried installing the Java plugin while running Internet Explorer 6 through WINE, but it was not successful! Luckily, I was able to install the plugin and can now use ALEKS through Firefox, while in Ubuntu (I’m not sure if these instructions are distro specific, but they do work for Ubuntu 7.10).

ALEKS does have an article that covers Firefox 1.0 and Linux, though we need to change a few variables, here’s a step-by-step (if you need more detailed help, just post your question below):

1. Make sure you have “Sun Java 6 Web Start” installed. Use apt-get or Synaptec to check.
2. Download the ALEKS plugin: aleksPack10.jar (6.4M)
3. Save the plugin into your Home directory:
   /home/{YOURUSERNAME}
4. We need to find your Java plugin directory, open Terminal and type:
   locate /lib/ext/
5. Note the plugin location. For me, the output was:
   /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/lib/ext/
6. In Terminal, type the following (if you’re output from Step 5 was different, supplement it in Step 6):
   cp aleksPack10.jar /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/lib/ext/
7. Restart Firefox

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