useful os x dns tricks

here’s a slick little tip that i discovered on a mailing list today. ...

April 30, 2012 · steve ulrich

dear xcode 4.3 - bite me.

since i’m in kind of a pissy mood anyways … i’d like to thank you for making me waste a solid 45 minutes fixing various and sundry pointers because you decided that moving everything from /Developer to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/... was a productive way to facilitate an “upgrade”. this results in all sorts of unexpected behaviors. like oh say, an inability to find stdio.h. some quality time with xcode-select and its associated manpages as well as some judicious googling seemed to result in the appropriate behavior....

March 4, 2012 · steve ulrich

OS X annoyance - hostname

because everywhere i go DHCP shoves its crap at me. ...

November 14, 2011 · steve ulrich

fixing a lion nit

about those oh so annoying window animations, make them go away: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

August 1, 2011 · steve ulrich