Author: sroot
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Grey text on a web page not visible when printing, how to fix it
Edit: what a rubbish title! I probably should have written: How to change light grey text to black when printing a web page Sometimes you need to print a web page and sometimes that becomes quite a challenge. In an ideal world the designer will have foreseen you might print some pages and will add…
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Mac Timemachine backups are NOT complete
How annoying. I’m discovering the hard way that a TimeMachine backup is NOT complete. It’s missing things all over the system. Sure, it has backed up my documents and applications but so far it appears to have missed: /private/etc/hosts (lost some custom DNS settings) Missing symbolic links, fixed by sudo ln -sn /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.2(Thanks StackOverflow!)…
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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…