Onyx Boox Note 10.3 – first impressions
I recently go my hands on a new gadget, the Onyx Boox Note. I have now owned a Kindle Paperwhite (2nd gen), a Kobo Glo, a Kobo GloHD, and now the Onyx Boox Note....
Docker, cron, mail and logs
If one searches for “docker cron“, there are a lot of hits but not really good solutions or explanations how to get a running system. In particular, what I needed/wanted was (i) stdout/stderr of...
TeX Live 2018 released
I guess everyone knows it already, Karl has released TeX Live 2018 officially just when I was off for some mountaineering, but perfectly in time for the current BachoTeX meeting. The DVDs are already...
Analysing Debian packages with Neo4j – Part 3 Getting data from UDD into Neo4j
In the first part and the second part of this series of articles on analyzing Debian packages with Neo4j we gave a short introduction to Debian and the life time and structure of Debian...
Specification and Verification of Software with CafeOBJ – Part 2 – Basics of CafeOBJ
This blog continues Part 1 of our series on software specification and verification with CafeOBJ. Availability of CafeOBJ CafeOBJ can be obtained from the website cafeobj.org. The site provides binary packages built from Linux,...
Analysing Debian packages with Neo4j – Part 2 UDD and Graph DB Schema
In the first part of this series of articles on analyzing Debian packages with Neo4j we gave a short introduction to Debian and the life time and structure of Debian packages. The current second...
TeX Live 2018 for Debian
TeX Live 2018 has hit Debian/unstable today. The packages are based on what will be (most likely, baring any late desasters) on the TeX Live DVD which is going to press this week. This...
Specification and Verification of Software with CafeOBJ – Part 1 – Introducing CafeOBJ
Software bugs are everywhere – the feared Blue Screen of Death, the mobile phone rebooting at the most inconvenient moment, games crashing. Most of these bugs are not serious problems, but there are other...
Analysing Debian packages with Neo4j – Part 1 – Debian
Overview on the blog series The Ultimate Debian Database UDD collects a variety of data around Debian and Ubuntu: Packages and sources, bugs, history of uploads, just to name a few. The database scheme...
TeX Live 2018 (pretest) hits Debian/experimental
TeX Live 2017 has been frozen and we have entered into the preparation phase for the release of TeX Live 2018. Time to update also the Debian packages to the current status. The other...
Replacing a lost Yubikey
Some weeks ago I lost my purse with everything in there, from residency card, driving license, credit cards, cash cards, all kind of ID cards, and last but not least my Yubikey NEO. Being...
TeX Live 2018 pretest started
Preparations for the release of TeX Live 2018 have started a few days ago with the freeze of updates in TeX Live 2017 and the announcement of the official start of the pretest period....
Debian/TeX Live 2017.20180305-1
TeX Live 2017 has received its final update just the other day and we are moving forward to start the period of testing leading up to the release of TeX Live 2018. Thus, this...
Ten Mincho – Great font and ugly Adobe
I recently stumbled upon a very interesting article by Ken Lunde (well known from CJKV Information Processing book) on a new typeface for Japanese called Ten Mincho, designed by Ryoko Nishizuka and Robert Slimbach....
CafeOBJ 1.5.7 released
Yesterday we released CafeOBJ 1.5.7 with lots of changes concerning the inductive theorem prover CITP, as well as fixes to make CafeOBJ work with current SBCL. The documentation has gained a few more documents...
Debian updates: CafeOBJ, Calibre, Html5-parser, LaTeXML, TeX Live
The last few days have seen a somehow quite unusual frenzy of uploads to Debian from my side. Mostly due to the fact that while doing my tax declaration (btw, a huge pain here...
