Noiz Waves

This is some stupid thing that cost me several hours of tinkering tonight. By default, URLs and last access time/date are not part of any style in LaTeX. How freaking ancient is that?!!?!

So heres a fix. Its been tested under OS X 10.5, so it should work for anyone running Linux too.

1. Download urlbst from http://nxg.me.uk/dist/urlbst/. For me the current version is 0.6.
2. Extract the archive anywhere, just so happened to be my Downloads folder.
3. Open a terminal window, and navigate to the newly created directly. For me it was ~/Downloads/urlbst-0.6/
4. Run ‘./configure’ without the ‘ and ‘
5. I have to use the acm bibliography style, so i will be playing around with acm.bst
6. Run ’sudo mv /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/acm.bst /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/oldacm.bst’. This moves the original style file to a safe place.
7. Run ‘./urlbst /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/acm.bst newacm.bst’. This adds the URL information to the style.
8. Run ’sudo cp newacm.bst /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/acm.bst. This moves the new style file to a directly where LaTeX can find it.

Now all your webpages and sources with online references & cite dates will look right! Woot! Sleepy time now!!!

Yesterday my MacBook Pro finally came. Expect some pictures and a full review soon.

During the set up of the wireless network connection, I ran in to some trouble. My PC-exclusive wireless lan is configured to be non-SSID broadcast, MAC access controlled and encrypted with 64bit WEP. To set it up it should be as easy as typing in the network name and key. But noooo…

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