A PhD on Open Source on Open Source Part 2 – Software for Writing Papers and Thesis

In the first part of this series of blog entries I introduced some basic features of open source software (OSS). In the second and following parts I will discuss open source software I use to make my day as a researcher simpler. One of the most important activities related to research is publication and dissemination …

Lost in new mysteries

I really do not watch a lot of tv and tv-series (at least not until they start broadcasting over the Internet and allow me to decide when I want to watch them)  but after finishing season four of Lost I was again left with more questions than answers. I know they do this to make …

Reinstalling Ubuntu

After installing Ubuntu (a Linux distribution) on my computer at work in 2005 and upgrading it ever since I decided to reinstall it. The upgrad process has worked really well from 5 to 6, 6 to 7, and now from version 7 to 8 but I after unsucsessfully trying to install some Eclipse plugins I …

A PhD on Open Source on Open Source Part 1

When doing a PhD on Open Source Software (OSS) one has to take benefit of the many great OSS products which are can make your life simpler. In this series of post I will present some of the OSS products I have found to simplify my PhD life. This will be a presentation of the …