Rest in peace UK
I am mourning for the UK. I feel so much pain and pity for all my good friends over there. Stupidity has won again. Good bye UK, your long reign has found its end....
Yearly Archive: 2016
Debian/TeX Live 2016.20160623-1
About one month has passed since we did release TeX Live 2016, and more than a month since the last Debian packages, so it is high time to ship out a new checkout of...
TeXworksとptex2pdfの自動設定
TeX Live 2016は最近リリースされたから、日本語の環境によく使われてる「ptex2pdf」に対応してる設定を自動にTeXworksに入れてることになった。したがって、これまでに必要なTeXworksの設定は自動に更新されている。
TeX Live 2016 released
After long months of testing and waiting for the DVD production, we have released TeX Live 2016 today! Detailed changes can be found here, the most important ones are: LuaTeX is updated to 0.95...
OpenPHT 1.5.2 for Debian/sid
I have updated the openpht repository with builds of OpenPHT 1.5.2 for Debian/sid for both amd64 and i386 architecture. For those who have forgotten it, OpenPHT is the open source fork of Plex Home...
Shotwell vs. digiKam
How to manage your photos? – That is probably the biggest question for anyone doing anything with a photo camera. As resolutions of cameras grow, the data we have to manage is ever growing....
Foreigners in Japan are evil …
…at least what Tokyo Shinjuku ward belives. They have put out a very nice brochure about how to behave as a foreigner in Japan: English (local copy) and Japanese (local copy). Nothing in there...
TeX Live 2016 (pretest) hits Debian/unstable
The sources of TeX Live binaries are now (hopefully) frozen, and barring unpleasant surprises, these will be code going into the final release (one fix for luatex is coming, though). Thus, I thought it...
Gaming: The Room series
After having finished Monument Valley and some spin-offs, Google Play suggested me The Room series games (The Room, The Room II, Room III), classical puzzle games with a common theme – one needs to...
ハリー・ポッターとアズカバンの囚人 (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Yeah, another book finished in Japanese, the third Harry Potter book, Prisoner of Azkaban. Took me quite some time, but thanks to a good Kobo ebook reader and my own enriched dictionary reading is...
Yubikey NEO
Two Factor authentication and general improvement of my security infrastructure was long on my todo list. Some month ago I finally purchased a Yubikey NEO from Yubico and try to consistently use it as...
Gödel and Daemons – an excursion into literature
Explaining Gödel’s theorems to students is a pain. Period. How can those poor creatures crank their mind around a Completeness and an Incompleteness Proof… I understand that. But then, there are brave souls using...
Armenia and Turkey – Erdoğan did it again
It is 101 years to the day that Turkey started the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide. And Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the populistic and seemingly maniac president of Turkey, does not...
GnuPG notes: subkeys, yubikey, gpg1 vs gpg2
Switching from one GnuPG master key to the usage of subkeys was long on my list of things I wanted to do, but never came around. With the advent of a YubiKey NEO in...
