Finished PhD Studies

Today, I defended my PhD Thesis at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Salzburg. My thesis is available online, as well as the presentation slides which I used during the defense.

It has been an amazing time, thank you very much!

Shopping!

Sir Lennox von Straßburg – Kärnten

Today, a lovely Labrador Retriever puppy moved in! Meet Lennox!

LaTeX Class for Austrian Highschool Final Projects

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.

Lenovo T61p – Beep of Death

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 … .

came home to this –>

In an entirely unrelated case, does anybody know any good recipes for roof rabbit?

I-Day 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

Doomsday over Salzburg, Austria

Solution: Google Nexus 5 – NFC not working

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.

Happy Birthday, weasel!