I swore I wouldn't » osx http://www.wontblog.com Oh no, I'm blogging now? Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:06:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Remote Disc on a MacBook Air http://www.wontblog.com/2010/09/03/65/ http://www.wontblog.com/2010/09/03/65/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:14:07 +0000 admin http://www.wontblog.com/?p=65

I am in the process of migrating my office to Apple products. I needed a way to install iWorks and Parallels on my boss’s shiny new MacBook Air, but the MacBook Air has no optical drive, and we have not yet ordered an external drive. My assumption was that I would need to make an image and copy it over to her machine; I was wrong. After I launched Finder on her machine, I saw “Remote Disc” as one of her drive options. A little research revealed that I could enable “DVD or CD Sharing” from my Sharing Preferences pane. Doing so made my drive visible from her machine, and the installation went along without a hitch.

]]> http://www.wontblog.com/2010/09/03/65/feed/ 0 How to flush your dns cache in OS X http://www.wontblog.com/2010/07/14/how-to-flush-your-dns-cache-in-os-x/ http://www.wontblog.com/2010/07/14/how-to-flush-your-dns-cache-in-os-x/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:42:10 +0000 admin http://www.wontblog.com/?p=59

From time to time you may need to flush the dns cache on your mac.  I had recently moved a site from one host to another, and while the nameservers at the various levels returned the new IP address, my browser still looked to the old IP address.

To resolve issues like this, (in Leopard) open a terminal and type in

> dscacheutil -flushcache

The same issue is resolved in 10.5.1 and earlier, open a terminal and type

> lookupd -flushcache

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