Monthly Archive: April 2014

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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...

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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...

山スキー:北ノ俣岳 0

山スキー:北ノ俣岳

大学の講義のストレスなのに、土曜日山スキーに行った。友達に誘われて、長い北ノ俣岳の予定だ。長長いので、金沢の出発は朝の3時!

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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,...

今年の花見 2

今年の花見

今年の花見は特別な感じだ。大学で忙しくなったし、週末もなかなか色んな理由で出来なかったし、今年本当に仕事後の花見になった。三年前金沢の南の川で静かな花見スポットを見つけたけど、今年初めてそこへ行った。もちろん、自転車で行って、お弁当と花見酒を持って行った。

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...