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This is my new blog where I will try to write about some of the things that interest me. I am not sure just yet if I will just focus on work (research and open source software) or if I will write about...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleReinstalling 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...
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A PhD on Open Source on Open Source Part 2 – Software for Writing Papers and...
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...
View ArticleFree, as in Free Beer, Increases Book Sales
According to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, the author Neil Gaiman increased his book sales after posting one of his books online, for free. While the Free Software Foundation and free software...
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A PhD on Open Source on Open Source Part 7 – Managing Publications and BibTeX
When doing a PhD, next to writing, the most important thing you do is probably reading. It is necessary to read what others have done to find interesting research questions and to avoid doing the same...
View ArticleWhat does the potential merger of Oracle and Sun mean for open source?
The news that Oracle is going to acquire Sun Microsystems surprised me quite a bit when I read it in the Norwegian news the day before yesterday. Everyone knew that IBM was lurking in the scenes...
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Aigaion for SourceForge community choice award
It is time for the SourceForge community choice awards. I have of course nominated Aigaion, my favourite web bibliography tool. Some time ago I wrote about it here. The nominations close May 29th so...
View ArticleTired of the old layout
I have become pretty tired of the WordPress default layout and I needed a change. However, I am no designer and I am busy writing my PhD. Hence, I did not have time to start making my own layout. I am...
View ArticlePlaying Youtube videos in Movie Player on Ubuntu 9.04
Apparently there is a bug in the Movie Player Youtube-plugin, distributed with Ubuntu 9.04.This bug gives you a message saying Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file,...
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