Henri Cook

Archive for August, 2008

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 [...]

This is a copy of a post I entered on BE’s forums this evening, from the responses other customers who know how to measure their packet loss are experiencing similar problems.
Hi there,
I’m on the ********* exchange, I frequently establish long-running SSH connections to public-facing machines (in datacentres) – i’ve noticed that I lose the connection [...]

27 Aug, 2008

henricook.com/.net/.org/.co.uk

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings

I’ve finally done it, after various threats from my friends to register them and use them as joke websites i’ve registered henricook.com/.net/.org/.co.uk and it is now the default page for my site, wiki and blog.
The old addresses will all continue to work (or redirect) for the time being, I have no plans to let theplayboymansion.net [...]

25 Aug, 2008

Amarok 2 Beta

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings

I’ve just downloaded the amarok-nightly package for Ubuntu to have a look at Amarok 2 Beta 1. Amarok2 itself is due for release at roughly the end of the year / beginning of next.
It looks pretty nice, bits and pieces still don’t work. The first thing that I went for was my ever-familiar all song [...]

The following error is something that took me absolutely ages to resolve so I thought i’d post it for others to read about, the error as seen in my Apache error log:
install_driver(mysql) failed: Can’t load ‘/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so’ for module DBD::mysql: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.14: version `libmysqlclient_14′ not found (required by /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
To fix this, I had [...]

20 Aug, 2008

Logitech MX Air

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings

I’m the proud new owner of an MX Air Cordless Mouse from Logitech and I absolutely love it. I was worried this would be the average gimmick product and the air mousing would be rubbish (actually surprisingly intuitive) and the touch scroll-pad thing would be rubbish (actually very good, you can flick-scroll much like an [...]

07 Aug, 2008

Fancy a Cuilgle?

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| Humour| Programming

A friend of mine just started up Cuilgle – http://www.cuilgle.org
It’s probably the best search engine, ever. Well done mate.

Using the helpful medium of my blog, I thought I would tell you all about a new tool that i’ve just launched. I call it a tool rather than a website or application simply because I can’t take credit for much of the cleverness involved.
Last90.com allows you to search Google, but only results from the [...]



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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.