Archive for January, 2007
Monday, January 15th, 2007
BibTex and Google Scholar
A quick way to create a BibTeX entry for a particular work you would like to reference is to search for the work on Google Scholar, and then click the Import into BibTeX link located just beneath the corresponding search results entry. Note that you have to enable this feature. To do so, […]
1 Comment » - Posted in LaTeX, Research by lee
Monday, January 15th, 2007
IEEExplore and BibTeX
Manually creating BibTeX entries for IEEE articles can be quite laborious. Luckily, Kjell Magne Fauske has done a lot of the work to make this process much easier. He has created an online tool called BibConverter that facilitates creation of BibTeX entries from IEEExplore search results. This process is really quite […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Engineering, LaTeX, Research by lee
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Firefox 2.0.0.1 Crashes After Ubuntu 6.10 Upgrade
After continually bragging to non-Ubuntu users that I have never been burned by an Ubuntu automatic update, I have been burned. The update manager recommended an upgrade to firefox 2.0.0.1. After this upgrade, firefox began crashing on seemingly random webpages. I was finally able (through trial and error) to determine […]


