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mac os x:``` lookupd -flushcache win:``` ipconfig /flushdns linux:``` /etc/init.d/ncsd restart

installation of flashplugin-nonfree resulted in: *** NSPlugin Viewer *** preloader not found nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so debugging went along the lines of ldd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin

was about to write some tiny scripts to get some basic svn commands integrated into Finder.app - luckily, came first across: http://svn-finder.sourceforge.net/

realized that my machine needs an awful lot amount of time to walk through a directory to check whether anything has changed and, hence, need to go into a backup. instead, i thought, it would be neat to use e.

in case you want to change the language in the “grammar and spelling” dialog box the short cut CMD+SHIFT+: comes very handy… well, but then you are stuck with a floating windows - grab the mouse and change the setting.

- use xslimmer or monolingual to strip down languages and unneeded architectures - for all those compiling left overs of macports sudo port clean –all -vf installed - and mostly not needed inactive ports

don’t ask - but i might need this in the near future… http://h3g3m0n.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/freebsd-review-and-howtos-from-a-linux-user/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

in the very unlikely case someone wants to write an add-on for firefox - and let’s assume this add-on should run with the new ff3… and the add-on should not be hosted on mozilla.

cf. http://www.pacificit.ca/article/319

It is written at the top of the ar manpage, but I seem to miss it every time: to print all symbols contained in a static archive, emit nm –print-armap [archive]