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In the last days I have also updated both texlive-bin source package (which ships texlive-binaries and some other packages), as well as biber, the indexing program related to biblatex. The relevant changes are as...
The Japanese Umeshu, a kind of plum liquor, is a very special delicacy. Incomparable to the rubbish you get at the Chinese restaurant. We got a huge box of young plums from friends living...
Yesterday evening we watched a movie rented over at GEO, which to my surprise was quite funny. It is “Now You See Me” (offical website, Wikipedia, IMdB). Turning around four gifted magicians that pull...
The first upload after the . About a month has passed since the last packages have been uploaded, and the backlog of the freeze period has slowly decreased, meaning loads of updates! I cannot...
It has been a long time that I haven’t programmed Lisp, but due to my involvement in , I recently have re-started to program Lisp, in particular Common Lisp, which is the implementation language...
Get the champagne out of the fridge, call your typographic friends, make a party – TeX Live 2014 has been released. Announcement has been delayed to give CTAN a chance to catch up, so...
This year we, the Kurt Gödel Society, are organizing the biggest event in the history of logic – the Vienna Summer of Logic. 12 conferences and many workshops, expected number of participants around 2500....
Pristine-tar is a nice tool when packaging for Debian in a git repository. The basic idea is that when checking in a new upstream tarball into the upstream branch, some hash information and binary...
This night, 25 years ago, Chinese troops stormed the Tiananmen square, assaulting peaceful protesters who had gathered here over the previous two weeks, causing casualities, injuries, and above all lost hopes. Lost hopes for...
I have just uploaded a set of packages that brings TeX Live 2014 (as it is currently frozen in preparation for the DVD image) to Debian/unstable. The packages have already been accepted and will...
Finally I got it – the bible for all who are serious about programming. DEK’s The Art of Computer Programming. I had some coupon’s for InformIT purchases, and used that to get both the...
Kobo has shipped another update of the firmware for their devices, new version is 3.3.1. Nothing spectacular new, just a language update it seems. But since kobohack was updated to firmware 3.3.0, I thought...
I have finally found the time to fix some annoying bugs when using PiwigoPress on WordPress 3.9 (and above). In addition, I have added some features I wanted to have. Fixes fix for Piwigo...
As already mentioned in a , packaging of TeX Live 2014 for Debian has progressed a lot. Today I am happy to announce that the first TeX Live 2014 (prerelease) packages have been included...
Recently the amount of flame-war discussions on debian-devel mailing list is again going up, due to the fact that systemd is finding (fighthing?) its way into all corners of the formerly peaceful Debian eco-system....
This book, Snow Country (雪国 in original) is one of the masterpieces of the first Japanese who won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1968), Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成). Snow Country describes the love affair between...
