Paper Accepted!
24
March
2015
Our paper “Discrete Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks with a Focus on Second-Order Diffusion” has been accepted for presentation at the 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’15) which will be held in Columbus, Ohio.
LaTeX Class for Austrian Highschool Final Projects
08
March
2015
Today, we developed a LaTeX class that can be used for the final projects in Austrian Highschools. Unfortunately, there is a long list of formatting requirements. More details – including the class itself – can be obtained from the project’s web page.
Deterministic Binary Majority Voting
23
February
2015
Last week Emanuele Natale from Sapienza University of Rome visited the Efficient Algorithms Group at the University of Salzburg to finish the project we startet when we met at the summer school in Vancouver in summer 2014.
Lenovo T61p – Beep of Death
11
February
2015
My Lenovo T61p is now almost 8 years old, and today was the first time it had a real malfunction. When powered on, the screen remained blank and the bios issued a long-short-short beep sequence. This is related to a problem with the Nvidia GPU which is built into my notebook. Surprisingly, applying the same hair dryer repair method as in this youtube video solved the problem. It really worked!
The cat is an … .
04
February
2015
came home to this –>
In an entirely unrelated case, does anybody know any good recipes for roof rabbit?
I-Day 2015
04
February
2015
February 4th — open house at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Salzburg!
I held short presentations about epidemic processes in social networks and high performance computing, targeted at pupils aged 15 to 19.
Web Page I-Day 2015
Folder I-Day 2015
New Year’s in Budapest
02
January
2015
We spent New Year’s Eve in Budapest.
Paper Accepted!
12
December
2014
Our paper “On the Influence of Graph Density on Randomized Gossiping” has been accepted for presentation at the 29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’15) which will be held in Hyderabad, India.
Solution: Google Nexus 5 – NFC not working
02
October
2014
Broken Screen on Nexus 5
A few days ago, I had my Nexus 5 screen and battery cover replaced. While the screen was definitely broken, I replaced the back cover for mere cosmetic reasons. After the replacement, neither NFC nor wireless charging worked. I must admit, I even bothered the retailer of the back pane and questioned whether it was an original LG Electronics spare part. However, after some more research, I found out that I still lacked the last step of the replacement procedure for the back cover!
The NFC antenna has to be re-attached upon changing the back panel. That is, one has to apply pressure to the NFC antenna in the upper center of the battery cover. It really worked for me. After some snapping sound, NFC functionality came back to life!
Summary
Problem
NFC in Nexus 5 not working after replacing the battery cover
Solution
pressing down on the upper center of the battery cover to re-attach the antenna.