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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Nokia Nokia Nokia, i’ve been a faithful customer for years but the Ovi store might be the last straw.
I’ve had problems with you spamming my email in an impossible-to-unsubscribe manner, your poor online customer service and you’ve slowly been falling behind as the IPhone has become more and more prominent.
I’ve just logged in to the [...]

I was surprised this morning to find that McAfee ‘On Access Scan’ had deleted my copy of Spotify overnight saying that it was an example of W32 IRCbot.gen.z – thanks Mcafee, you’re now disabled.
This of course raises an interesting question – does Spotify connect to IRC somewhere? What other reason could McAfee have for detecting [...]

I was recently asked to repair a five year old Sony Vaio PCG-FX705, it’s got a 600 Mhz processor don’t ya know? Anyway it overheats and shuts down a lot which makes it bin worthy to my eyes, but a sentimental owner has a different opinion. Here’s a couple of pictures of my solution to [...]

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 [...]