mac os – Carl Casbolt

Fast User Switching from the command line on a Mac

It seems that some IT departments like to lock out the fast user switching option on company laptops in a lot of companies at the moment. This became a problem for me as I have a local admin account on my work machine, and I have to switch to it whenever I want to install from a dmg file. This got me thinking, is there a command line argument or tool that I could run to do this? Sure enough there is. The only thing you need to look up is the UserId for the user that you want to switch to.

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How to clear DNS cache on a mac running OSX

Clearing the cache on Mac’s seems to change with every other release these days. In all cases though you need to use Terminal, but not always the same command. Back in the 10.4 days you would use lookupd, then in 10.5 and 10.6 you would use dscacheutil, but now in 10.7 you need to now use a killall command.

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iTerm2 – now available in BETA

A few months back I wrote about iTerm2 – well it’s now in BETA and a lot more finished then it was back in January.

They have a new site now and it’s full of information about this improved version or the old iTerm.

http://www.iterm2.com

iTerm2 – the new alternative to Terminal for Mac OS

Almost all command line users on Mac should be familiar with iTerm – which is a free replacement to the standard terminal application. However this tool now has a big brother in the pipeline called iTerm2.

iTerm2 is a fork of the original iTerm project and for most part, they are the same, but iTerm2 has a considerable number of improvements over it’s predecessor.

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