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  • 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…

  • Technical notes on migrating from MovableType to WordPress

    Having just migrated from MovableType to WordPress here are my notes just in case they help anyone else. Time it’s taken from empty wordpress to viewing complete posts: about 6 hours Time it would take to do now knowing exactly how to solve problems: about 1 hour Time you need to allow…. decide for yourself…

  • CRON – multiple cron jobs on one line (running consecutively, not concurrently)

    This post will (hopefully) remind me in the future how to do something very simple. A crontab is normally running one command on each line. EG: # m h dom mon dow command 01 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-warn-when-large-user-profile 05 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-get-remote-pc-backup.sh 01 01 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-samba-users 01 02 * *…