Tag Archives: Mac OS X

Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X

13 May, 2009 – 4:44 pm

A while ago I wrote up a method for switching between /etc/hosts files. That post is pretty popular and clearly been useful to a few people. Since then I’ve actually extended this method into a tool that can manage multiple /etc/hosts files. Using this new method you can have a folder that you can add [...]

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“Star Soup” – Quartz Composer screen saver for Mac OS X

30 May, 2008 – 6:38 pm

I’ve been sitting on this one for a few years. Mind you, for most of that time I thought I had lost it amongst my many backups and migrations from machine to machine. This is a Quartz Composer… um… composition that I put together back when Quartz Composer was only new. Today I fired it up under [...]

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Fast switching your /etc/hosts file in Mac OS X

6 March, 2008 – 11:08 am

UPDATE: This method has been extended and superseded, find out about the “new improved” method here. Web developers often have reason to fake a host name’s associated IP address by editing their /etc/hosts file. The peculiarities of the development environment we use here at WordPress.com mean I find myself switching back and forth between two [...]

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Installing MySQL 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 client

14 November, 2007 – 2:48 am

What a dry title. There are a few write-ups about this here and there, but I thought I would put together the steps I went through to install MySQL on Leopard. I found that none of the posts I’ve seen do a good job of tying together all the problems that I came across. So [...]

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