Thursday, April 18, 2013

kdepim-4.4 (kmail1) in Gentoo - unsupported, dying, dead

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Bitrot is accumulating, and while we've tried to keep kdpim-4.4 running in Gentoo as long as possible, the time is slowly coming to say ...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

NVIDIA 300 series Linux drivers - worst functionality regression ever

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For a long time, I've been extraordinarily happy with both NVIDIA graphics hardware and the vendor-supplied binary drivers. Functionalit...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

OpenPGP smartcards and Gentoo - part 1: hardware

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Gnupg is an excellent tool for encryption and signing, however, while breaking encryption or forging signatures of large key size is likely ...
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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Gentoo 10.0 to 13.0 profiles upgrade & server profiles going away

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We've generated a new set of profiles for Gentoo installation. These are now called 13.0 instead of 10.0, e.g., "default/linux/amd6...
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Friday, February 8, 2013

KDE 4.10.0 plasma-desktop crashes and qt frustrations

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While on my machine KDE 4.10.0 runs perfectly fine, unfortunately a lot of Gentoo users see immediate crashes of plasma-desktop - which make...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

PhD position available: A carbon nanotube as a moving weak link

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The combination of localized states within carbon nanotubes and superconducting contact materials leads to a manifold of fascinating physica...

PhD position available: Gigahertz nanomechanics with carbon nanotubes

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We are currently working on integrating carbon nanotube nanomechanical systems into superconducting radio-frequency electronics. Overall obj...