I have been quite absent from Debian stuff lately, but this increased since COVID-19 hits us. In this blog post I'll try to sketch what I have been doing to help fight COVID-19 this last few months. In the beginning When the pandemic reached Argentina the government started a quarantine …

I was in need of creating a Qt application using current Debian stable (Stretch) and gpsd. I could have used libQgpsmm which creates a QTcpSocket for stablishing the connection to the gpsd daemon. But then I hit an issue: libQgpsmm was switched to Qt 5 after the Strech release, namely …

After some rants about the status of different Qt-based serial port libs, I'm happy to announce that today QExtSerialPort was accepted in Debian experimental (this last link may give a 404 for some time, that's ok). A great effort was done upstream to put the source in a suitable …

Y ahora le toca el turno al segundo trabajo práctico de HPC\@UNS. Ésta vez vamos a seguir moviendo partículas, pero con mayor grado de paralelización, ya que vamos a usar OpenCL sobre una placa nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (rev a2) y Debian. [Cada punto del gráfico es el …