Say you’re writing a big piece of text – like a master’s thesis or some sorts. You have progressed pretty well and have already written over 40 pages. Playing around with the line-height value, you could even push that number to 50. Suddenly, you want to check out something you wrote in one of the [...]

The latest tetex distribution (v2.0.2-36) available using fink 0.7.1 (actually I installed it using the apt-get command) on Mac OS X has a broken listings package. In fact, the file listings.sty is missing, but all other files seem to be present (/sw/share/texmf/tex/latex/listings). To quickly fix the bug and install the latest version of listings, download [...]

Today, I went to the Loorenkopf on my bike, and I realized I definitely need a new one. It’s 15 years old, the brakes don’t work as well as they should and the chain is somehow enlarged in a way it doesn’t match the gear wheels perfectly producing a very annoying noise.