Henri Cook

Archive for July, 2008

28 Jul, 2008

Cuil unveiled

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings

I and many others saw the Lifehacker about Cuil (prounounced ‘Cool’) that debut’ed today. First impressions are:
- Nice site design (sparse, google style – if it works…)
- Unable to find anything for ‘mysql rename table’ (Thanks Macen)
- Unable to find anything for ‘theplayboymansion’, ‘Henri Cook’ or ‘hashphp’ (as in http://www.hashphp.com)
So i’ll be optimistic and call [...]

21 Jul, 2008

Enlarging RAW / qcow2 images (QEMU / KVM)

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings

I’ve just put some information up on my Wiki about some of my early KVM experiences including how to enlarge basic (unix populated) disks. Take a look if you’re interested!
It’s worth noting in big bold capitals, that it is SIGNIFICANTLY HARDER TO RESIZE A DISK IMAGE CONTAINING WINDOWS(NTFS/FAT32) – there is an abundance of literature [...]

10 Jul, 2008

Xentalk.org

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| Programming

If anyone would like to take over http://www.xentalk.org – a project I started back in the day when I was using Xen and didn’t slightly loathe it, contact me for admin rights!



  • Matteo Gallinucci: Great, I just don't succeed to run Steam under proxy with Freecap (I use Win7 64bit), so it's working using Proxier...but it isn't free, do you know a
  • Vinayak: Had the same problem in red hat linux, but above code doesn't seem to work . Can you provide any pointers ?
  • ramunfafe: Hello, I am getting conflicting info about this and wanted to hear from someone who has recently traveled to the country. What's the departure tax you

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Henri Cook is a postgraduate Computer Science student at Durham University, UK. His interests range from the technical and geeky through to watersports through to psychology. Please take the time to look around and comment, the author values your feedback.