December 20th, 2007
Yeah, well you can’t blame them of course… after all, they’re just the spokespersons for the industry, the tech know-it-alls right? In this video, Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian gets schooled by a system administrator at CNBC while getting a tour of the media giant’s 15 terabyte Apple Xserve RAID/Xsan setup. Makes you wonder if these writers [...]
November 30th, 2007
For quite a while now, Apple has dumped the old lookupd daemon and it may have confused some users. “How am I supposed to flush the DNS cache?” or “How can I restart DNS services without a reboot?” Fortunately, Apple now supplies dnscacheutil which takes care of everything and provides a great command-line interface for [...]
September 11th, 2006
Apparently on Mac OS X 10.4.7 (and earlier), the zcat command doesn’t work. zcat is a very useful util to read through gzip-archived system logs and usually works by just typing zcat /path/to/log.gz
However, it appears to be broken on the Mac. For example, this is actual output:
[user@host:~] zcat /var/log/system.log.0.gz
zcat: /var/log/system.log.0.gz.Z: No such file or directory
[user@host:~] [...]
July 5th, 2006
I didn't even know about this until I happened to be browsing the Mac tech support forums on the Blizzard World of Warcraft site the day after Mac OS X 10.4.7 came out. Apparently, if you own a Intel Mac (I own a MacBook Pro) and do a typical Software Update from 10.4.6 to 10.4.7 [...]
May 8th, 2006
Many distributions of Mac OS X come with Postfix installed, which make for great mail servers. However, Apple added a new twist to its UNIX backend with the addition of its own pseudo-replacement for cron, called launchd. This causes a minor, yet fatal error with Postfix on Tiger. If you use the preinstalled Postfix [...]