I have been a long time user and fan of Steam, Valves digital distribution platform for computer games. Steam makes buying reasonably priced games from a decent sized catalog of games, easy. Steam gives me lifetime backup of my games and I can download them whenever I want and play them from any computer with […]
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A PhD on Open Source on Open Source Part 3 – Setting up a Latex Thesis Template
In the previous part of this series I wrote about using Latex to write a thesis. I will now give stepwise instructions to how to set up a new project using Eclipse and Texlipse and how to use a thesis template. The template is a skeleton made for writing a thesis based on a collection […]
I Do Not Write Email
Personally I write a lot of email. To a computer nerd, email is probably like the hammer to a carpenter. I am not really interested in politics, little less US politics but I got a bit worried when I read that US president candidate John McCain does not use email. The current president is probably […]
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 […]