Dominik Kaaser portfolio, projects, and weblog

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

cat-vs-pot-plant 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.

Panorama 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.

Doomsday over Salzburg, Austria

12 November 2014

Solution: Google Nexus 5 – NFC not working

02 October 2014

Broken Screen on Nexus 5

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.

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