Fighting with IPv6
During the last weeks I finally got my hands dirty with IPv6. A comment on my blog and an email informed me that my server (hosting this blog) is not reachable via IPv6, albeit...
TeX Live security improvements
Today I committed a set of changes to the TeX Live subversion repository that should pave the way for better security handling in the future. Work is underway to use strong cryptographic signatures to...
Best Wishes for 2016
Happy New Year 2016. I wish all the readers of this blog, and everyone else, a good start into 2016, may some of your wishes and hopes become true! あけましておめでとうございます。このブログの読者の皆様も他の人も、皆に良い２０１６年になり、いくつかの希望と望みが実現しますように祈っています。
CafeOBJ 1.5.5 released
Yesterday we have released CafeOBJ 1.5.5 with a long list of changes, and many more internal changes. Documentation pages have been updated with the latest reference manual (PDF, Html) as well as some new...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20151226-1
Before I disappear into the Japanese winter holidays, here the Christmas update of all TeX Live packages. Nothing spectacular here, just the usual bunch of updates of loads of packages. There is a bug...
Plex Home Theater becomes OpenPHT – release 1.5.0 for Debian sid and jessie
The nice guys from RasPlex have forked the abandoned Plex Home Theater into OpenPHT (github, Plex forum) and updated it with several improvements. Plex itself is now developing a new player called Plex Media...
My unconscious bias
Here is my unconscious bias, probably only one of it, though. Thanks to ANTIFA on Facebook.
Slick Google Map 0.3 released
I just have pushed a new version of the Slick Google Map plugin for WordPress to the servers. There are not many changes, but a crucial fix for parsing coordinates in DMS (degree-minute-second) format....
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20151116-1
One month has passed since the big , and not one bug report concerning it did come in, that are good news. So here is a completely boring update with nothing more than the...
Movies: Monuments Men and Interstellar
Over the rainy weekend we watched two movies: Monuments Men (in Japanese it is called Michelangelo Project!) and Interstellar. Both blockbuster movies from the usual American companies, they are light-years away when it comes...
Music check: Google versus Apple – Is that all? You can do better, Google!
Ok, I have been an iPhone user since I moved to Japan and got my first smart-phone ever. First a 3s, then a 4s, then a 5s that I dropped into the toilet, so...
Japanese TeX User Meeting – Support for Japanese in TeX (Live) – present state and future?
Tomorrow the Japanese TeX User Meeting 2015 will be held in Tokyo. Since I have come to Japan I have attended more or less every year this meeting, and in 2013 we could get...
Two videos that make you happy
Sometimes one feels down and troubled, and instead of a helping hand, watching videos that cheer you up can get you a long way. Two of my favorite videos are one of the “crazy...
CafeOBJ 1.5.4 released
Yesterday we have released CafeOBJ 1.5.4 with a long list of changes, and many more internal changes. Documentation pages have been updated with the latest reference manual (PDF, Html) as well as some new...
Debian/TeX Live multiarch update
A big update of all related packages (tex-common 6.04, texlive-bin 2015.20150524.37493-7, texlive-base/lang/extra package 2015.20151016-1) due to the move to support multi-arch. Of course, the regular updates of the TeX Live are included, too. With...
On Lars Wirzenius, Martín Ferrari, and Debian
Now that the tsunami that followed my has passed, I can read through all the nice comments and blogs of other people. I didn’t expect that just writing up some links to posts on...
