New file in Mac OS X Finder
Sometimes we need to create a file from Finder directly. And this is strange that Finder allows easily to create a folder but not a file! Although Linux and Windows file browsers have this option....
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How to check DNS cache status in Mac OS X
As a follow-up to How to Flush DNS Cache in Mac OS X I have received a question: how do I know if it worked? In other words, is there a way to check if the DNS cache is cleared? To see the DNS cache...
Print-screen (screenshots) in Mac OS X
Keyboard shortcuts Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on...
Postfix restart in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Actually it is no so easy to restart Postfix in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion like in Linux :-) However you can restart Postfix by plist unload / reload: sudo launchctl unload...
How to Flush DNS Cache in Mac OS X
After upgrading to 10.8.2 I have got a problem with adding a new entry into hosts file: the update was recognised only after system restart. But a more easy solution was just to flash DNS cache! So,...
Cannot send mail in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
There is an error while sending mail in Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8: send-mail: fatal: chdir /Library/Server/Mail/Data/spool: No such file or directory To fix just run in terminal: sudo mkdir -p...
Disable automatic unzipping on file download in Safari (Mac OS X)
After file downloading a ZIP file with Safari this file is unzipped automatically. The original ZIP file appears to be deleted. Not so good! To fix this behaviour just go to...
Mac OS, MySQL: No such file or directory (trying to connect via unix:///
Error on attempt to connect locally to MySQL server DB with PHP on MacOS X Lion 10.7: No such file or directory (trying to connect via unix:///var/mysql/mysql.sock) Solution 1: instead of localhost...
Mac X11 window font size change
The most simple way is adding the following new command in the X11-> application -> customize: xterm -geometry 72x34+100+40 -fn *-fixed-*-*-*-20-* &
Mac OS X - MySQL Workbench - Error Opening Configuration File my.cnf
By default, the OS X installation does not use a my.cnf, and MySQL just uses the default values. To set up your own my.cnf, you could just create a file straight in /etc, or do the following (excuse...