USB stick update: Debian is back, plus GRML
In the on the multi-boot usb stick, Debian had to be dropped, due to missing support of iso-loading in the Debian installer iso images. Thanks to helpful comments from Jonathan McDowell and private emails,...
USB stick update: TAILS 1.4, GParted 0.22, SysResCD 4.5.2, Debian Jessie
I have posted a view times ( and ) about how to get a multi-boot/multi-purpose USB stick working. Now that TAILS has seens a major upgrade, and Debian 8.0 Jessie has been released, I...
Debian/TeX Live 2015 preparations
I have uploaded a preliminary version of the texlive-bin based on the 2015 sources (plus the first fixes) to the Debian archive, targeting experimental. As there are four new packages built from the sources...
TeX Live 2015 DVD preparation starts
As the last step in the preparation of the TeX Live 2015 release we have now completely frozen updates to the repository and built the (hopefully) final image. The following weeks will see more...
Shishiodoshi or Us and They – On the perceived exclusivity of Japanese
The other day I received from my Japanese teacher an interesting article by Yamazaki Masakazu 山崎正和 comparing garden styles, and in particular the attitude towards and presentation of water in Japanese and European gardens...
Plex Home Theater 1.4.1 for Debian Jessie and Sid
Recently Plex Plex Home Theater was updated to 1.4.1 with fixes for some errors, in particular concerning the new music handling introduced in 1.4.0. As with , I have compiled PHT for both jessie...
TeX Live, TeXPortal and Open Source
I recently was made aware by a very positive review of TeXPortal, a TeX Live system compiled for Android and available in the Google App Store. This is more or less a TeX Live...
First release of cjk-gs-integrate
After long back and forth and improvements here and there, I have finally uploaded a version of cjk-gs-integrate to CTAN. This coincides with the first test releases of the Ghostscript for MacTeX packages, which...
Plex Home Theater 1.4.0 for Debian Jessie and Sid
Recently Plex Plex Home Theater was updated to 1.4.0 introducing new features regarding music handling. In the meantime, Debian/jessie has been released, and from now on jessie and sid will drift apart. Thus, I...
Kobo firmware 3.15.0 plus mega update (KSM, kobohack, patch, ssh, …)
As with previous version, I have prepared a mega update for the Kobo firmware 3.15.0, including all my favorite patches and features. Please see details for and . As before, the following addons are...
Setting up CID fonts for Ghostscript – technical notes
While working on the into Ghostscript, we had to navigate a lot of unclear waters, at least unclear to me. While there are some pages describing the final setup, the reasons for that was...
100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
Exactly 100 years ago the first genocide of the 20th century started: The Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Turks. The Ottoman empire, the predecessor of Turkey, ordered the deportation and execution of...
Murakami Haruki’s answer on atomic energy
The well known writer Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) – I have blogged about several of his books – also provides some kind of counseling service. He is running his advice page 村上さんのところ. The readers can...
PiwigoPress release 2.29
I just pushed a new release of PiwigoPress (, WordPress plugin dir) to the WordPress servers. This release incorporates lots of security related fixes by Rüdiger Schulz, bit thanks to him. PiwigoPress supported from...
Plex Home Theater 1.3.7 Debian
Update 2015-05-04: 1.3.7 is gone from the repository, and locations have changed depending on sid or jessie in use, please see for Version 1.4.0. Recently Plex Plex Home Theater was updated to 1.3.7 fixing...