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Monthly Archives: November, 2007

MacOSX, VMWare Fusion and PKR… it works!

UPDATE: I’ve created a short video to help people with settings for VMWare, DX and PKR. View the new post here At long, long, last, with the new VMWare Fusion 1.1 PKR works on my MacPro if I run it in ‘min spec’ mode (launch it from the start menu). It runs fairly well on [...]

MacOSX: Flushing the DNS Cache

Just a quick note: flushing the DNS cache on OSX used to be:   lookupd -flushcache   but on Leopard (OSX 10.5) its   dscacheutil -flushcache   As my ADSL connection goes up and down i find my DNS cache is getting screwed with.

Debugging My ADSL

My ADSL hasn’t been perfect at my home for a year or so now. Basically it looses the connection. Sometimes once a week, sometimes it’s 4 or five times a day. I’ve been too lazy to sort it out because it just seemed easier to reboot the modem, wait 30 seconds and carry on with [...]