Software

Here are some of my recommendations and personal preferences for maintaining a BibTeX file for a bibliography to be used with LaTeX.

General

Paper titles do not need capital letters for the first letter of all words. Example:

title="This is the Title of a Paper on the {ABC} Protocol",

BibTeX will typically convert all but the first letter to lowercase ("This is the title of a paper on the ABC protocol"); this is ok. However you should force uppercase for acronymns or names using the braces. You should avoid using formats like (let the BibTeX style deal with the case):

title="{This is the Title of a Paper on the ABC Protocol}",

Wow, that was close! I decided to delete an old fat32 partition that I used to share data between linux (first Fedora, now Ubuntu) and Windows on my dual boot PC. Since Ubuntu supports NTFS partitions, I hardly ever used it. I used Partition Manager Professional in Windows to delete the partition. No worries.

However, I also decided to resize my /boot partition under Ubuntu. When I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, the process was stalled several times because I didn't have enough space on the /boot partition (initially 100Mb). This was very annoying because I had to move some files from /boot and restart the entire Ubuntu upgrade (several minutes wasted each time). So I used Partition Manager to also increase the /boot partition to 200MB. No worries.

When you right-click on a folder in Ubuntu Linux you are given an option to Create Document. Initially no templates are installed. To install a template simply create blank document in the ~/Templates directory and it will appear in the right-click menu.

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Linux desktop management system

ns2 is a popular, free package for simulating computer networks and protocols, e.g. TCP, satellite links, ad hoc networks, routing protocols.

1. Download the following packages from the ns2 website and extract them into your working directory. For example in my case /home/sgordon/ns2 is my install directory, therefore all the .tar.gz files are saved in this directory and apply tar xzvf filename.tar.gz on each:
   

Here you can find a brief description of my PC in Bangkok, my Web Server in Bangkok and the computer setup I used to have in Adelaide. You can also find some notes to some installation and configuration issues using Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora) and other software (e.g. NS2).

PC in Bangkok

A couple of days after I arrived in Bangkok and got my room I purchased the following PC which also acts as my TV and sound system. Total price: 38000 Baht (approx $AU1350).