Jure Cuhalev

Archive for December, 2007

Just a quick tip for an issue that drew me insane for last couple of weeks. When you upgrade to Leopard suddenly you don’t see anymore the CUPS printers on your network. The reason for this is that Apple decided to disable some browsing protocols. You need to manually edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add BrowseProtocols all [...]

23 Dec, 2007

Laser Graffiti/Tags

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Planet Kiberpipa| Planet LiveCD| Tech| everyday life| happy

Last week I had a chance to visit a workshop on creating Graffitis with Lasers, also called Laser Tags, organized by Luka Frelih @ Ljudmila.
The idea itself is “simple” enough. Take the laser with its motor out of CD-ROM and build a connector for its motor so you can connect it to Arduino.

Afterwards you [...]

Some time ago I read Cory Doctorows editorial about possible ways that your ex-coworkers will kill Facebook; because your colleagues and bosses will want to be friends on Facebook with their employees, and in process invade privacy of things they do in their personal life and would rather keep it private. Instead of denying their [...]

Videos from TED are something of incredible nature. Each being about 20 minutes long, also perfect to watch while traveling, especially on the plane when 20 minutes is just about right before flight attendants starts serving something or turbulence happens. I’m usually doing this while multitasking on a number of other pre-trip issues, yet for [...]

11 Dec, 2007

Zemanta Penguins

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Planet Kiberpipa| Planet LiveCD| everyday life| happy| zemanta

After successful presentation at the Investors day, we had a nice evening out in the city. One of the venues we visited was the “Absolut Ice Bar London“. The idea is very simple, have a bar that is whole under ice and serve some nice cocktails to visitors, even though it sounded a bit more [...]