Category Archives: geekery

Dropbox on Lubuntu 18.04

Posted on July 16, 2018 by johnl

My prefered Linux distribution these days is the lightweight Ubuntu variant Lubuntu. As I mainly use my linux laptop for writing and running fairly intensive text-processing scripts, I need something that doesn’t have extra bells and whistles and their corresponding … Continue reading →

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Wikimania for Historians

Posted on August 5, 2014 by johnl

Coming to the Barbican in London this weekend (August 8 to 10) is Wikimania 2014, a great gathering of people involved in Wikipedia and its many related projects. There are hundreds of panels and talks, and as an attendee and … Continue reading →

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Installing Zotero standalone on Ubuntu 11.10

Posted on November 14, 2011 by johnl

Zotero is an open source reference manager, produced by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.  To say ‘reference manager’ understates what it is capable of: you can use it to organize your reading, collaborate with others, and … Continue reading →

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