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Category Archives: Software

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 [...]

VMWare Fusion Google Tech Talk Video

I use VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP and FreeBSD on my Mac Pro. To be honest I mostly run in for the single Windows App I can’t find a replacement for RegexBuddy. I’ll admit it’s an expensive way for me to be lazy. I could test regular expression in the python command line. I’m [...]