Jure Cuhalev » time wasters http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog In pursuit of The Idea Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:22:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Here be dragons http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/12/08/here-be-dragons/ http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/12/08/here-be-dragons/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:08:13 +0000 Jure Cuhalev http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/?p=616 I’ve decided that it’s time to talk a bit about some phrases. I’ll start with: “Here be dragons“, that’s defined in Wikipedia as:

Here Be Dragons #3
Image by thievingjoker via Flickr

“Here be dragons” is a phrase used to denote dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of the infrequent medieval practice of putting sea serpents and other mythological creatures in blank areas of maps.

In another context, software programmers sometimes use it to indicate especially difficult or obscure sections of code in a program so that others do not tamper with them.[1]
Source: Good ol’ Wiki

This means that you’re often hear this phrase when being talked about strange territories and unexplored areas. I’d like to think that it’s more of an act of courage to actually go and explore it, but it’s also a fair warning :)

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hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Inspired by this simple, yet highly effective site, we now have: isobamapresident.com/

That currently returns:

http://isobamapresident.com/

http://isobamapresident.com/

Have a good election countdown night, and don’t eat too much pop-corn. It really doesn’t help with stress ;)

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    • ]]>     Some time ago I found the page poster child mario question blocks, which describes the process of creating real world mario objects. Months passed by and one day I decided that our hacklab Cyberpipe needs a block too. My brother Peter to the rescue, and we got our first block:

    UroÅ¡ thinking I’m crazy for being amused with this cube

    But then a few days ago I was wondering around old part of Ljubljana city center and I noticed that someone else had to have similar ideas quite some time ago:

    There you go, proof that Slovenians know some Nintendo history.

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    ]]>     http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/02/10/real-world-mario-question-blocks/feed/ 6     Vista is funny http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2006/12/24/vista-is-funny/ http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2006/12/24/vista-is-funny/#comments Sun, 24 Dec 2006 22:14:41 +0000 Jure Cuhalev http://www.kiberpipa.org/~gandalf/blog/?p=69
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    • ]]>
    Executive Executive Summary
    —————————

    The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the
    longest suicide note in history.

    Read more

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    ]]>     http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2006/12/24/vista-is-funny/feed/ 1     10 opensource games http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2006/06/14/10-opensource-games/ http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2006/06/14/10-opensource-games/#comments Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:24:06 +0000 Jure Cuhalev http://www.kiberpipa.org/~gandalf/blog/?p=50
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  • Orisinal : Morning Sunshine
    • ]]>     A very nice writeup of 10 opensource games. Also some nice comments in the comment section.

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    ]]>     http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2006/06/14/10-opensource-games/feed/ 0     Progress (ubuntu, fedora, cinelerra) http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2006/03/26/progress-ubuntu-fedora-cinelerra/ http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2006/03/26/progress-ubuntu-fedora-cinelerra/#comments Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:17:48 +0000 Jure Cuhalev http://www.kiberpipa.org/~gandalf/blog/?p=38
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    • ]]>     A big part of last weekend I spent working on new builds of Cinelerra packages for Ubuntu Dapper and Breezy. I now finally fully understand its build dependencies and I am close to making automated pbuilds so Andraz can easily trigger automated builds of SVN when enough significant changes are made. Except updated packages for i386 and hopefully for amd64 also by the end of this week. My brother is already using first test versions of Dapper packages on his Dapper Kubuntu and I’ve tested them in my testing virtual machine.

    Today is also the day when I migrated my hacked Ubuntu Breezy to Fedora Core 5. Even though I’m used to do strange stuff with Debian based distributions this is the first time I actually had a RedHat based distrubution on this computer.

    Currently it only managed to irritate me with:
    – broken grub installation. Grub Error 17. I actually had to boot up the rescue cd, chroot and manually reinstall grub to fix it.
    – nvidia binary drivers don’t work out of the box by default. Luckily I found a blog post FC5: Ati or Nvidia Drivers that gave me a few commands that I of couse blindly entered as root and rebooted. This thing supposedly upgraded my kernel so it can load non-gpl drivers. I’m not sure how should I feel about this. Backing up xorg.conf file from Ubuntu proved quite handy since now I have my dual-monitor setup working again.
    – and an installation that took over an hour and asked for all 5CDs. Somehow I’m used to much faster and easier installations.

    Be prepared for a stream of raves and rantes about FC5 in next days. The bets of me staying with it are still on ..

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    • ]]>     Yesterday hruske blogged about Girls with slingshots comics that got me wasted quite some time. So as a revenge I today post a link to
    Piled Higher and Deeper which is an addicting web comic about college students at Standford. Have fun reading. Bwahaha.

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    • ]]>     A very funny collection of movie poster spoofs. It looks like the grand prize is iPod.

    Mike Davidson: iPod Giveaway #7: Design a Steve Jobs Movie Poster

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    • ]]>

    Tim O’Day is the proud representative of all of the oppressed white-collar workers of the world. Listen to “Unit Test” for a glimpse into the gritty world of this modern folk hero.

    Voice of Tech

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