Henri Cook

Ever since Ubuntu Gutsy i’ve had issues with the wired ethernet (MCP55) on my ABit IN-9 32X Max – there are two problems, i’ve summated them and the way that I work around them below:
1. Interfaces appear in ‘ifconfig’ but do not establish connection/accept DHCP address
Most people with this problem say add the following to [...]

While I haven’t noticed much new graphical sugar with my recent install of Karmic, I have noticed a significant increase in driver support – this is the first time i’ve managed to install my system without having to drop back to a terminal or even play with text configuration files!
I have a system with three [...]

I’ve just upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty. In the past updates have often prompted a system reinstall to get my relatively unsupported nvidia graphics and Creative X-Fi working again.
At least this time no reinstall was necessary, my install is still plagued by several problems that Jaunty didn’t spot automatically (and in fact reset from my [...]

I recently co-located a new server to find that I was given one ‘main ip’ on subnet X and all my additional IPs were on subnet Y. This has happened in the past but the Datacentre setup usually has a gateway on each subnet to allow for internet access. This was not the case in [...]

As of the time this is written this is currently impossible – sorry! If anyone finds out how to do it please let me know!

After months of aggravation and ‘just putting up’ with this bug a (source) patch and a quick terminal-based fix have been released.
Bug comments/description here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-177/+bug/296167
The terminal-fix which I’m using until a patched package is released is instituted as a script, and can be bound to a gnome hotkey for super quick-fixing.
/home/henri/scripts/mouse_fix.sh:
#!/bin/bash
cat /home/henri/scripts/mouse_fix.sh
xte “mousemove 0 0″
For [...]

I really enjoyed this announcement by Mark Shuttleworth – the writing style and sense of something awesome in the works is great:
As we approach the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, it’s time to create space for
future plans, and so I’m writing to introduce you to The Jaunty Jackalope.
Jaunty, the code name for what will most likely [...]

After what feels like decades (months) of searching I finally stumbled across this amazing post by Peter Kao which describes how to use the Webmail plugin for Thunderbird with an OWA addon to check email on exchange servers where IMAP is disabled! This means that I can finally check my Durham University exchange mail (with [...]

Wow, possibly the largest title ever. This is something that i’ve done fairly recently, I wanted a phone for my business that wasn’t a mobile and my options appear to be costly forwarding to my mobile (when i’ll probably be near my PC anyway) or getting calls routed to a home phone line (which would [...]

Having just handed in my dissertation and regaining some of that free time I remembered so fondly I thought i would try upgrading from ubuntu gutsy to ubuntu hardy, the newly released version (April 24th)
I run a dual screen setup with nvidia graphics drivers, trivial under windows but it’s always been a nightmare to setup [...]