Jure Cuhalev

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Getting a CrackBerry was my latest step in showing total devotion to my employers big ideas about changing they way people blog. Since we use Google Apps for part of our intranet solution I thought it would be nice to integrate this gadget with their servers. Sadly this made my already bad initial experience with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

09 Jul, 2006

Positive spam

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Planet Kiberpipa|Planet LiveCD|Rant

John Maed had a great idea today on his blog. He thinks that spam should become more positive so you could start your day with inbox full of positive messages. I would personally love to see more subjects like “Have a wonderful day!” and maybe just “Smile, it’s a nice day”.

So today I was writing the end term paper for my Eyetracker project. When I was preparing presentation late at night (it’s currently 3:30am) that I have tommorow morning I was wondering why I am getting such anomalies in the visualized data:

(8×6 matrix)
(80×60 matrix)
and then it hit me, maybe I don’t have normalized my data! [...]


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jure100px_colour Jure Cuhalev is an Open Source Hacker, with background in Social Sciences and Usability and User Experience (UX).

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