Occasionally, you’ll want to be sure you are getting fresh DNS information during development or working on servers with hostnames. This has changed in the Leopard version of Mac OS X. The following command will now flush your DNS cache on Mac OS X Leopard: dscacheutil -flushcache
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The HTTP 301 status code is meant for use when you want to redirect a page or URL to its new destination after reorganizing or moving a web site around. This can be on the same domain or an entirely new domain. Here is the W3C definition of the 301 code. The requested resource has [...]
If you have ever contacted Apple for support on any of their products, you know the first question they are going to ask you is… “What is your serial number?”. The serial number is easy to find on most of their products because they allow you to access it through the software. This is typically [...]
If you have previously disabled the Mac OS X Spotlight feature and you now find that you would like to turn it on again, following these steps to do so. Launch Terminal and type the following command: sudo nano /etc/hostconfig Find the following entry in the hostconfig file: SPOTLIGHT=-NO- Change SPOTLIGHT=-NO- to SPOTLIGHT=-YES- Save /etc/hostconfig [...]
One of the primary features of the Mac OS X operating system is their search feature called Spotlight. Many Mac OS X users depend on this great feature but others don’t find it necessary. For those of you who don’t find it necessary, it can improve the performance of your Mac OS X system if [...]