Posts tagged mac

Tip of the Day: Fixing Page Up and Page Down Keys in Leopard's Terminal.app

05/11/2008

by Ben Allen

To expand on my last post about fixing the home and end keys in Terminal here is how to fix the Page Up and Page Down keys.

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Creating Mac OS X 10.5 System Accounts

08/15/2009

by Ron Valente

Introduction

With the upcoming release of leopard there are many changes under the hood. One of the small but quite annoying changes if you are used to the old ways is the removal of the NetInfo manager application. This is a blessing in disguise because the new implementation of user creation and account management.

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Flushing DNS Cache on Mac OS X

07/15/2008

by Ron Valente

In the name of performance Apple has in Tiger and Leopard decided that cacheing DNS lookups locally was a good idea. Normally it is, but when you are debugging DNS problems or changing DNS records it can be quite a pain if you forget about it. Well as long as you remember, its simple enough to clear the cache:

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Setting Hostname on Mac OS X 10.5

05/15/2009

by Ron Valente

Setting Hostname on Mac OS X 10.5

So if you are a road warrior and travel around a lot. You may be annoyed by your terminal displaying your DHCP hostname rather than the real hostname of your machine. That being said here is a simple way to permanently fix your problem.

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