Month: December 2012

  • Calc (Openoffice / Libreoffice) If statements using 'between' or 'and'

    It’s always annoyed me when I want to write an if statement where true is based upon more than one fact and I have to nest if statements. Today I looked at lots of other forumulas and found one that let me create an if_between effect. Like “IF a number is between 2000 and 3000…

  • Gitolite won't let server read repo

    A note for my future self. Summary: When adding a new production server to my cap deploy that will clone a repository from my gitolite server, First SSH into the gitolite server so the production server has the gitolite server in it’s trusted hosts file. More detail: A repository on my gitolite server wouldn’t allow…

  • Installing a new hard disk in a Mac = not fun

    So I had to upgrade my mac hard disk. 12 months and I filled the 320Gb disk so I treated myself to a Seagate Momentus XT 750Gb disk. It has NOT been fun. Problems so far include: Initialise disk over the internet and restore from TimeMachine – fails to restore the recovery partition so cannot…