Category: Mac

Mac

Flushing the DNS cache on macOS

Every so often macOS holds onto a DNS answer longer than it should — you've just repointed a domain, switched VPNs, or fixed a broken record, and your Mac is still confidently resolving the old one. The fix is a one-liner: sudo...

Mac

How to detect non-Apple kernel extensions

My old Mac crashes a lot. I'm wondering if it's because of some bad third-party extension. Here's how to list non-Apple kernel extensions (kext's): kextstat | grep -v apple

Mac

New MacBook Pro Retina

Our new MacBook Pro Retina arrived while we were in Hawaii. Our old MacBook Pro was getting long in the tooth. It was a pre-unibody, 2007 model, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM, a 500 GB spinning disk drive, and OS X...

MacProgrammingPython

Easier way to build _bsddb for OS X

I blogged previously about how to build _bsddb for Python 2.6 by hacking the Python source code to accommodate changes in berkeley-db. Here's an easier way that doesn't require hacking source code. Install berkeley-db using...

MacProgrammingPython

Building _bsddb for Python 2.6 on OS X 10.8.5

It's well-known that the Python that comes with OS X machines typically doesn't have _bsddb. I downloaded Python 2.6.8 and attempted to build it and it wouldn't build the _bsddb module. Here's what I did to fix this. I used...

MacProgramming

OS X Homebrew: Build FreeTDS from HEAD (gitorious)

Here's a pull request I just submitted to homebrew to make it possible to build FreeTDS from master on its gitorious repo: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/21309 Example of using it: $ brew install freetds --HEAD --universal...

MacProgrammingPython

Compiling a universal library

A note for my future self on how to compile a library as universal binary in Mac OS X. For a while, I've been getting warnings like these when building pymssql: ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/lib/libsybdb.dylib, file was...