Author: worldchanger
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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…
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Pixel Mapping
So I was searching the internet aimlessly while on vacation and ran across a sweet little project that I want to attempt at some point this year. FadeCandy Demo I have already found a cheap supply for the LED I will need to do some verification that those would be comparable to the ones we…
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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…
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Blogging 2.0
Well it’s that time of year that we start over with New Years Resolutions and I realize that I don’t blog like I should. It’s not that I don’t have enough to say, it’s more or less been finding time to say it. SO, that being said I will make this year of re-prioritization of…
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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…
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WordPress a go!
Well in case you haven’t noticed, I have abandoned Joomla for WordPress. Don’t get me wrong Joomla is a great platform, but for what I was wanting on my blog not so much. WordPress out of the box was a much better fit for what I wanted. Now some of you might be asking why…