So this morning I was doing some work with one of my webservers and adding new sub hosts to some of the domains and to see the changes on my MacBook pro laptop I knew I would need to flush the DNS cache so I wouldnt have to wait for the cache to expire.
So for [...]
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The majority of us don’t backup on a regular basis. It usually isn’t until we lose a bunch of critical data that the light bulb turns on and we start backing up for maybe a week or two and then we stop. Apple’s new Leopard operating system contains Time Machine to fix that problem. Time [...]
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With over 300 new features:
They ones that appeal to me there most are
Quicklook: Using Quick Look in Leopard, you can view the contents of a file without even opening it. Flip through multipage documents. Watch full-screen video. See entire Keynote presentations. With a single click.
Quick Look works with nearly every file on your system, including [...]
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Here is how I got Ubuntu 7.10 installed and working on my parallels virtual machine, also you might find Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Unleashed a very useful book to read.
VM Memory: 512 HD size 6-10GB
1. Boot the install CD. When the menu screen comes up press F6 for boot options before it starts the install
2. [...]
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Recently I have been having a lot of issues with my macbook pro and connecting to my home network, Airport on mac osx would seem to be connecting to find to the network, but the computer would never get an address from the dhcp server on the network, and manually setting the ip address would [...]
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I have a macbook pro and sometimes I need to connect to the console port on some of the cisco networks I do work on.
Today I went out and bought a USB to Serial converter from maplin, the driver disk that comes with the product is one of the small CDs which would get stuck [...]
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I often get given laptops and computers by friends to sort out because the see me as the “computer whiz”. This time even I had to think about the problem for a while, I was given a Macbook laptop that keep saying it had no free space left on the hard drive anymore, The user [...]
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Ok, so in my last post about showing the hidden files in finder I talked about the terminal commands but thats not always convenient for fast switching.
Below is some applescript that I wrote to do the job.
– www.infosonicgroup.com
– Shane Duffy
display dialog "Show hidden files in Finder" buttons {"Show", "Hide","Cancel"} default button 1
copy the result as [...]
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One annoying thing about my MacBook pro and OS X is not easily been able to show hidden files.
Showing hidden files
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
Hide the files again
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder
Thanks to Matt for pointing out an error in my screen shots
AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition provides a great resource for [...]
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