August 2007 Archives
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:46:07 +0000
bad xpdf rendering on etch
I have been wondering why xpdf rendered some pdf files really really bad. (Check out this example screenshot for comparison of xpdf, evince and Adobe reader on etch.) The error message Error: PDF version 1.6 -- xpdf supports version 1.5 (continuing anyway) should have given me a hint. But I just did not think that going from 3.01 to 3.02 would make a big difference. However it does; the sid versions of evince and xpdf render as well as Adobe reader.
[Updated 2007-08-25 19:05 CEST] I have uploaded a backport to http://www.backports.org/ and less than two hours later it has already gone through bpo's NEW processing and is available for download. Thanks, ftp-master.
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:07:17 +0000
CDS strangeness
I wonder why the standard CDS reference obligation as specified by Markit RED (Bloomberg function REDL) is often a rather obscure, totally illiquid, tiny bond. e.g why would you use a EUR 10 Mio. private placement for Societe Generale instead of one of their benchmark issues?
Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:03:50 +0000
those were the times
Found at the exhibition Play with Technology in Technisches Museum Wien:
a small working x-ray machine toy. See description.
