To expand on my last post about fixing the home and end keys in Terminal here is how to fix the Page Up and Page Down keys.

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• Goto the Keyboard Tab as shown below
• Select the end key settings
• Change the action setting to send string to shell as below Continue reading »
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Create a standard SSH keypair by using the ssh-keygen command. When prompted for a passphrase enter one. Copy your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to your destination's authorized_keys file. Now login to your destination from the Terminal with ssh. You will be pleasantly surprised with a pop-up box asking for the password associated with the id_rsa SSH key. It gives you the option to store this password in your Leopard keychain if you wish. This effectively takes place of using a ssh-agent to store SSH keys. Continue reading »

In the name of performance Apple has in Tiger and Leopard decided that cacheing DNS lookups locally was a good idea. Normally it is, but when you are debugging DNS problems or changing DNS records it can be quite a pain if you forget about it. Well as long as you remember, its simple enough to clear the cache:

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Setting Hostname on Mac OS X 10.5

So if you are a road warrior and travel around a lot. You may be annoyed by your terminal displaying your DHCP hostname rather than the real hostname of your machine. That being said here is a simple way to permanently fix your problem.

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