USB stick with Tails and SystemRescueCD
With the ongoing surveillance everywhere, it is wise to have some way to work without leaving traces. One of these tools is Tails, famous for having been used by Snowden to transmit the NSA...
Javascript access to Piwigo web API
On the front page of my weg page I usually display the latest three blog entries. But recently I thought I also want to show the latest three galleries. So I went ahead and...
Kobo Glo firmware 3.3.0, kobohack, libnickel, multitouch, fullscreen
Kobo has shipped another update of the firmware for their devices, new version is 3.3.0. I have used this to look at some other new (or new for me) features additions that I can...
Debian/TeX Live – preliminary packages for 2014
After many iterations and failures I finally managed to build preliminary packages of TeX Live 2014 for Debian. At TeX Live we just recently have entered the , and that is a good time...
Keigo Higashino – Salvation of a Saint
My first book from the extremly prolific Higashino Keigo (東野 圭吾): Salvation of a Saint. Translated into English in 2012, it is the forth in the Detective Galileo series, where a bit weird scientist...
TeX Live news: 2013 frozen, 2014 pretest, 2014 Debian
A few days ago was the last time we updated tlnet for TeX Live 2013 on CTAN. That means, from now on in the following two to three months there will be no update...
Sony VAIO Pro and UEFI booting
To follow up up on the previous post concerning my new Sony VAIO Pro 13 laptop (, ), where I mentioned problems with booting due to UEFI strangeties, here now a more detailed analysis....
End of TeX Live in Debian?
It sounds crazy, but I am seriously considering to ask for the removal of the TeX Live packages from Debian. Although this sounds crazy, especially considering the consequences: several packages will FTBFS no TeX...
Sony VAIO Pro 13, Linux, WiFi
As I have , my latest workforce laptop is a Sony VAIO Pro 13. At that time I posted something in the sense that with an update of the firmware my Wifi problems were...
Flashcards Deluxe – the learning machine
With the start of this semester I am teaching in Japanese – thus I am back to learning, in particular learning Japanese for mathematics. And of course I am using my preferred flashcard application,...
Debian/TeX Live 2013.20140408-1
Another month, another upload of Debian/TeX Live packages has hit the Debian servers this moment, and will hit the local mirrors in due time. The new version is based on tlnet from 2014-04-08. As...
Preparation for TeX Live 2014 (and Debian)
Prepartions for this year’s release of TeX Live 2014 are under way. The first build rounds to ensure that there are no severe problems with building on all supported architectures have already successfully finished....
Kibagata-Hakusan-Shinkansen-Harmony Forum
I have already reported a few times about the bleak future of our nature environment with the coming of the Shinkansen, see and . We will have a rather big Forum coming up in...
Debian and systemd – heading for the abyss?
There have been many discussion about which init system Debian should use. I have myself tried to stay away from that particular discussion. I am not a fan of systemd, but I consider myself...
Debian/Linux on Sony VAIO Pro 13
I recently wanted to order a new laptop from work, and due to the ignorance of Lenovo I couldn’t get my preferred Thinkpad T41 in time for the end of the financial year. So...
Kobo Glo kobohack-j 140315
A new release of the kobohack-j package brings updates to freetype (2.5.3), sqlite (3.8.2.1), dosfstools (3.0.26), and libpng (1.6.10). The hack part sees the addition of busybox (1.22.1), as well as updates to gdb...
