Henri Cook

This entry ended up being far too long for the Facebook Group so i’ve pasted it here and linked from there!
I wrote out an epic page or so on ITS a couple of weeks back and ironically it was too long for Facebook to deal with and I lost it all. I’m back for another [...]

There is only one thing that’s stopping me using Google’s Chrome browser on all my machines, linux and windows alike. It’s a simple feature, that was part of Firefox from the early days.
A master password
I like saving passwords, it’s something I never used to do because of the inherent security risks but thanks to Firefox’s [...]

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 [...]

After much searching I found a supplier of Red American Party Cups (AKA Solo Cups) and i’m now reselling off them, the very very rubbish website (I prefer the term ‘functional’) can be found here.

I’ve just received my Nexus One from Google, fairly prompt delivery – I ordered during the press conference and it was dispatched a few days after by DHL International (Better than City Link!) which then took only three days to ship internationally.
A bit of background, this is an upgrade from an HTC Hero which is [...]

Free Wall Street Journal, if this interests… it might also work for various academic papers and for all these othersites that are about to throw up Pay Walls
… vive la resistance
Install this in firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953
Add a site:
Site: wsj.com
Action, Custom: http://www.google.com/news/
Disable RefControl (right click on the little icon you’ll see at the bottom of your firefox window)
Go [...]

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 spent the last week, on and off, trying to add a card to my Google Checkout account on my HTC Hero. I got a collection of weird errors that I couldn’t explain, I was on a train at the time so thought it might be something to do with me hopping between access points. [...]

I just found this in a paper by Michael Pafford (1975, Entwistle / How Students Learn) and think it’s something that I can relate to, on some level. What’s your opinion?
“In my childhood and more particularly  during my teens I sought solitude: it was a matter of choice not necessity. I was seldom unhappy and [...]

Is anyone else unimpressed with Microsoft ‘Bing’ (launched today @ bing.com)? I’ve done a few searches and everything looks exactly like Google, best it evoked was a ‘meh’ – have i missed some cool new feature? I thought it was meant to be uber?