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How To Flush DNS Cache On Mac OS X Leopard

by Ben on December 19, 2008

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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How To Re-enable Mac OS X Spotlight

by Ben on September 23, 2008

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 by hitting Control-O and [...]

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How To Completely Disable Mac OS X Spotlight

by Ben on September 23, 2008

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 [...]

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A local DNS host file can be very useful when working in a development environment. You can have a development environment and a production environment and simply point the host to the development environment on your machine while all of the other users are directed to the production environment. This allows you to work on [...]

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If you are new to Mac OS X, you may need to know how to edit your PATH. The good news is that this is an extremely easy task on Mac OS X.
Step 1: Open up a Terminal windows (this is in your Applications/Utilites folder by default)
Step 2: Enter the follow command:
$ sudo vi /etc/paths
This [...]

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