November | 2014 | Thomas' Work Space

Stop ":Zone.Identifier:$DATA" files from being created…

2014/11/19 plagwitz 1 comment

… by running gpedit.msc as admin and setting "user configuration / administrative templates / windows components/ attachment manager / "Do not preserve zone information in file attachments" to "Enabled No. "

I observed these files in the drive my virtualbox win 8.shares with the linux host.
The answer is out there , of course, just not with all the search terms. A more thorough security discussion is also available.
Just seems not applicable to a share what virtualbox makes appear as a network folder to Windows while it really is not, which causes also other misleading security warnings also :

2014/11/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

If you can install Zotero’s word processor add-ins (for LibreOffice Writer or MS-Word).:
If you cannot, you can still use the “create bibliography from items” of Zotero (which itself can be run under portable Firefox from a USB stick – no install needed at all). Here is a brief example and insert those into your writing;

2014/11/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

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Consistency through reuse.

2014/11/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

This ain’t your grand daddy’s citation manager anymore, restricted to the library IT infrastructure and the venerable Z39.50 protocol. Zotero can turn any online resource you browse into bibliographic information, saving you hours of distracting typing, for rather starting note taking immediately – also ideally done for later reuse in Zotero’s reference manager.
Better even if Zotero can manage also your PDF downloads, like in this example: – including note-taking: Note that Zotero comes with a PDF markup extension.

2014/11/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

Where the Zotero address bar shows you, instead of a (blue) book or (black-and-white) manuscript icon (= journal article) a yellow Manila folder, you can download a batch of references at once.
Prerequisites:
1. You could start with checking whether you can download a base bibliography for your topic from its Wikipedia article:
  1. Limitations
    1. YMMV: Not all Wikipedia articles are marked up with machine-readable metadata (but I assume more and more, even though there is also FUD over shifting standards like microformats, microdata).
    2. The automation seems not forgiving if it runs into an error:
    3. I have not seen any useful exception information during such failures (there is a Zotero debug mode, though), so trying to get overcome this obstacle is an exercise in trial and error:
2. Other most useful sites (at least if you are not affiliated with an institution of higher ed) are