Henri Cook

This article on Phorm is genuinely disturbing – how long would this system in use before someone suggests using it to track the activity of, say, paedophiles? After that how long before everyone’s being tracked for ’suspected piracy’ – I have no doubt in my mind that this ‘anonymous system’ can be adapted to identify [...]

It’s like a day of internet-related idiocy!
What good is taking sex offenders email addresses going to do? It doesn’t make me feel any safer on behalf of all the young children out there and any child who’s ever signed up to GMail knows exactly how easy it is to get a new email address. HOW [...]

After spending a ridiculous amount on replacing network cards as described previously, the problem was made a little better.
Imagine my horror when I finally discover from someone in ##xen on irc.freenode.org that the Ubuntu Xen packages are absolute bollocks. My machine running Xen crashed up to 5 times a day, whenever high I/O load occurred. [...]

This sort of stuff makes me really angry, not because i’m a student and we’re all allegedly bringing down the music industry with our piracy but because no one has thought this through!
Has ANYONE thought about what this is actually going to require ISPs to do? To actually, accurately say that someone is using their [...]

I’m in the process of setting up XenTalk.org – a place for users of free Xen (Xen Express) to go and discuss their issues, a forum for how tos and problem solving for all open-source xen users!