Having recently changed ISP, my command of the day is
dscacheutil -flushcache
which flushes your machine’s DNS cache to allow you to access your named sites via their new IP addresses once you’ve changed them in the DNS thus making the locally cached IP addresses stale.
The latest edition of Mac Daily Journal (1st page as PDF here) reveals that Safari 3.2’s anti-phishing technology relies on downloading a database of prefixes of URL hashes from Google to check against your current URL, using the Safe Browsing 2.1 protocol. If the match is positive then a full URL hash is requested from Google.
Not that Apple mentions this anywhere, nor has stated a related privacy policy about what Safari sends to whom.
Check out the cool Word Clock typographical screensaver. Also available for iPhone.
So, it’s some 6 years since Mac OS X was introduced and Steve Jobs buried System 9.
So why do some (even Universal) apps still give me the black and white low-resolution watch cursor?
I got to lay hands on a new precision unibody MacBook tonight at the WAMUG meeting thanks to Daniel Kerr from MacWizardry. It’s a solid little beasty, built like the proverbial brick chickenhouse. Still not sure about gloss though.
Anyway, I noticed that the incandescent lightbulb icon for the Energy Saver preference pane has now been replaced with a compact flourescent lightbulb icon 
Now we just have to wait for the LED lightbulb icon.
Roughlydrafted has a picture of the new icon and also notes that the new MacBook’s Nvidia 9300M chipset has hardware acceleration for H.264 that could be enabled via a plugin QuickTime codec.
Macintouch reports tat Smart Scroll lets you reverse scroll direction and get iPhone-like scroll coasting (inertia) on Mac OS X.
Apple has a tech note about which Macs will work with 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows Vista under Boot camp. Hint, you have to have a 2008 or later Pro model.
If you need to connect to an airport wireless network from the commandline you could check out the little known airport command line utility.
It’s hidden at
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport
You can use –help for help and -I for signal strength and ID info
Trying to work out how to roll logs on my Leopard server (that’s actually client configured as a server :), I discovered that Leopard is using Newsyslog, on which NerdGirl.dk gives the lowdown.
