December 2006
2 posts
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Using a local nameserver on Mac OS X
If you’ve followed most guides floating around on the Web (such as this one) for configuring a local nameserver on Mac OS X, you’ll more than likely be quite happy: you went into System Preferences and set your DNS server IP to 127.0.0.1 so that your server is used instead of your local network’s or your ISP’s. What happens if you want to use your old DNS server settings...
Dec 15th
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Using a2ps on Mac OS X
Depending upon your printer setup, you may find that a2ps won’t work on Mac OS X. It’ll generate PostScript just fine, but Mac OS X’s printing subsystem can fail. If you have a PostScript printer, things will probably just work, but if you have some other kind (for example, one of the recent crop of cheap laser printers that use a custom page description language), you’ll...
Dec 7th