Henri Cook

Archive for September, 2008

18 Sep, 2008

Dear mummy and daddy…

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| Humour

Dear mummy and daddy… if you’re reading this, can I please have the Titanic Adventure Slide on my next birthday please?
Thanks x

Add the following to your spamassassin/local.cf – sorted:
# Stop outgoing messages being marked as spam
header LOCAL_RCVD Received =~ /.*\(\S+\.henricook\.com\s+\[.*\]\)/
describe LOCAL_RCVD Received from local machine
score LOCAL_RCVD -500
Took me a while to find! Simply looks for <foo>.henricook.com in the received line (i.e. received for outgoing) and -500’s the spam score making it near impossible to be classified [...]

09 Sep, 2008

Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope

Posted by: Henri Cook In: Ubuntu

I really enjoyed this announcement by Mark Shuttleworth – the writing style and sense of something awesome in the works is great:
As we approach the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, it’s time to create space for
future plans, and so I’m writing to introduce you to The Jaunty Jackalope.
Jaunty, the code name for what will most likely [...]

After what feels like decades (months) of searching I finally stumbled across this amazing post by Peter Kao which describes how to use the Webmail plugin for Thunderbird with an OWA addon to check email on exchange servers where IMAP is disabled! This means that I can finally check my Durham University exchange mail (with [...]



  • 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.