Monthly Archive: May 2016

3

OpenPHT 1.5.2 for Debian/sid

I have updated the openpht repository with builds of OpenPHT 1.5.2 for Debian/sid for both amd64 and i386 architecture. For those who have forgotten it, OpenPHT is the open source fork of Plex Home...

27

Shotwell vs. digiKam

How to manage your photos? – That is probably the biggest question for anyone doing anything with a photo camera. As resolutions of cameras grow, the data we have to manage is ever growing....

7

美味しいコーヒー豆

今日悲しい朝だった:うちの一番好きなコーヒー豆がなくなった。昔イタリアのトスカナのシエナ市に住んでいた時、できるだけ毎日このお店でコーヒーを飲んだ。コーヒーということは、日本で一番人気な「フィルターコーヒー」かアメリカン・コーヒーじゃなくて、ちゃんとしたエスプレッソ、カフェ・マキアート、朝食のためにカプチーノ。

21

Foreigners in Japan are evil …

…at least what Tokyo Shinjuku ward belives. They have put out a very nice brochure about how to behave as a foreigner in Japan: English (local copy) and Japanese (local copy). Nothing in there...

2

TeX Live 2016 (pretest) hits Debian/unstable

The sources of TeX Live binaries are now (hopefully) frozen, and barring unpleasant surprises, these will be code going into the final release (one fix for luatex is coming, though). Thus, I thought it...

2

Gaming: The Room series

After having finished Monument Valley and some spin-offs, Google Play suggested me The Room series games (The Room, The Room II, Room III), classical puzzle games with a common theme – one needs to...

15

Yubikey NEO

Two Factor authentication and general improvement of my security infrastructure was long on my todo list. Some month ago I finally purchased a Yubikey NEO from Yubico and try to consistently use it as...