Category: HowTo

  • Flush DNS catch in OSX and Windows

    Have you ever found yourself having a hard time loading a website and you know you that it should be loading? Chances are you will need to flush your DNS on your machine. OSX 10.10 sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches OSX 10.9 dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder OSX 10.7 – 10.8 sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder OSX…

  • Memory Test for Mac

    I recently ran into a problem with a used mac mini I had purchased from a friend of mine.  He gave it to me fresh with Mountain Lion running on the machine, so the first thing I did was upgrade it to Mavericks.  Life was great until I started to put the system under a…

  • Local Websites in OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion

    So for whatever reason after updating to OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 I couldn’t access http://localhost/~username.  Every time I would try to load it I got the following error: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /~bpauley/ on this server. So in order to fix this you have to perform a few steps. 1.  You…