Questions in Mac OS X

• How to flush DNS cache in OS X El Capitan?

  Open a Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/ or search with Spotlight) and run the following command: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder;    
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• How to delete an ip route in Mac OS X?

  sudo route delete 192.168.250.0/24 10.21.0.1  
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• How to show ip routes in Mac OS X?

  Fire up your terminal an enter the following command: netstat -nr   Or you could limit it a bit to this: netstat -rnf inet   Or
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• How to restart frozen Dock, Finder or Menubar on Mac OS X?

  This happens from time to time and if you can either open a Terminal or connect to your Mac OX
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• How to run virt-manager on Mac OS X?

  There is no easy solution for this at the moment and there is no real alternative on Mac OS X
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• How to uninstall all unused versions of (mac)ports packages?

  This is actually pretty easy, just run the following command: sudo port uninstall inactive
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• How to unhide Library folder on Mac OS X?

  This one is pretty easy, just run that command in Terminal:   chflags nohidden ~/Library  
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• How to activate TRIM in Mac OS X?

  Owners of Macbooks who upgraded to an SSD might want to use this feature and here are two ways to
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• How to clear DNS cache in Mac OS X (Leopard/Snow Lepard/Lion)?

  For Mac OS X 10.4 and below: lookupd -flushcache   For Mac OS X 10.5 and above: dscacheutil -flushcache
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• How to completely uninstall xcode?

  This is actully quite easy and might be necessary from time to time.Open a Terminal and enter the following command:    sudo
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• How to make a bootable Mac OS X Lion USB stick?

  Gladly this is actually now quite easy. (Now there is a also a tool available that does most of the
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• How to fix AFP connections to old server/nas? (Mac OS X Lion)

  I ran into this problem with Lion and I am sure more and more people will now, as it was
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• Cisco VPN client stuck / not working in Mac OS X?

  You might try this, it helped me a few times: sudo kextunload -b com.cisco.nke.ipsec; sudo kextload -b com.cisco.nke.ipsec    This un and reloads
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• How to remove an entry from the preference pane?

  As in most cases with the Mac OS X operating system, those entries are just plain files on your hard
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• How to debug "back to my Mac" feature in Mac OS X?

  Well, I was kinda amazed that Apple has built in quite some nice console tools for debugging, so open an
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• How to run MacFUSE on Snow Leopard 64 bit?

  Hi folks, well, I ran into this problem some time ago and well, you could built it yourself from the google
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• How to enable Time Machine on unsupported volumes?

  Just run that command in terminal and you can use any device for Time Machine backups: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
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• How to use suspend to disk in Mac OS X?

  Usually your Mac Book does a special thing, that is called "safe suspend", what happens here is that the RAM
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• How do I install mplayer on Mac OS X?

  Hi fellow Mac users, the problem is that the mplayer builds supplied by the mplayer people themselves are really outdated so
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