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My first computer…

Published on October 9, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

ZX-Spectrum, my first computer

ZX-Spectrum, my first computer


My collegues at work got me my first computer for my birthday! A fully function Sinclair ZX-Spectrum with tape drive, printer, manuals and lots of games! Not to forget, a couple of old issues of the MCN Magazine. This certainly brings back some good memories :)

Flush DNS cache in Mac OSX

Published on July 28, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Mac OSX uses a DNS cache. This cache stores the nameserver responses. While this is useful in general cases, it can be a pain when testing a website that is being moved to a different server. The cache will still serve the old ip address of the site, even if the DNS server already has the new ip address configured. To overrule the cache, and request the latest information with the authoritive DNS server, you can flush the DNS cache. To do this, open a Terminal window and enter the following command:


$ sudo dscacheutil -flushdns