Debian/TeX Live 2015.20160117-1 and biber 2.3-1
About one month has passed and here is the usual updated of TeX Live packages for Debian, this time also with an update to biber to accompany the updated version of biblatex. Nothing spectacular...
Monthly Archive: January 2016
Gaming: Portal Stories: Mel
The last days, after about 20 hours of gameplay, I have finally finished Portal Stories: Mel, the single player mod for Portal 2. After having played and , I have to say this one...
CJK fonts and Ghostscript: cjk-gs-integrate release 20160115.0
I have made a new release of , the script that searches for all kind of CJK fonts, and makes them available to Ghostscript (and if asked for also to TeX by linking). The...
Ian Buruma: Wages of Guilt
Since moving to Japan, I got more and more interested in history, especially the recent history of the 20th century. The book I just finished, Ian Buruma (Wiki, home page) Wages of Guilt –...
10 years TeX Live in Debian
I recently dug through my history of involvement with TeX (Live), and found out that in January there are a lot of “anniversaries” I should celebrate: 14 years ago I started building binaries for...
Kobo firmware 3.19.5761 mega update (KSM, nickel patch, ssh, fonts)
Since 3.18.0 there have been two new firmwares for the Kobo eInk devices. For the very recently released firmware release 3.19.5761 I have updated my collection of patches and features. As with previous mega-package,...
WordPress 4.4 and older themes – how to break backward compatibility
Since quite some time I was wondering why my blog suddenly does not display a title in the browser bar. Hmm, Of course I thought I broke something, but it turned out that this...
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...
シエナのチェルトサ・ディ・ポンティニャノ（Certosa di Pontignano, Siena）
１２月は出張ばかり：最初いつものスウォンジーだったけど、その後久しぶりに昔住んでいたシエナへ。シエナの近くにあるチェルトサ・ディ・ポンティニャノ（Certosa di Pontignano）において去年なくなったシエナの先生の記念学会が行った。
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。
