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Was messing around with some DNS stuff today in Leopard to find that lookupd is gone! Don't worry just there's a new command that is a drop in replacement entitled dscacheutil.

# sudo lookupd -flushcache

# sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

So far everything I use in Leopard is an improvement! Other than the nasty 3D Shelf/Dock. Looks like file uploading in Flash is broken in Leopard right now! I had a hell of a time uploading my picture to MySpace, and Flickr.

Found a really cool howto on getting the Jedi hologram effect that got cut from the developer seeds of Leopard to work in Photo Booth.

In preparation for Leopard I had to backup my data somewhere. So I decided to write a quick script for rsync'ing my home directory off to mounted volume. This script will shut off spotlight from indexing your system and backup volumes. Perform the rsync, then turn the indexing back on.

#!/bin/sh

BACKUP_SRC="/Users/<your home directory here>"
BACKUP_DEST="/Volumes/<your mounted volume name here>"
EXCLUDES="--exclude tmp* --exclude *Cache* --exclude .Trash*"
RSYNC_ARGS="-avzE --progress --delete $EXCLUDES "
RSYNC="/sw/bin/rsync $RSYNC_ARGS $BACKUP_SRC $BACKUP_DEST"

spotlight_switch()
{
	/usr/bin/mdutil -i $1 /
	/usr/bin/mdutil -i $1 $BACKUP_DEST
}

! test -d $BACKUP_DEST && echo "Please mount the backup drive!" && exit 

spotlight_switch off

echo $RSYNC
`echo $RSYNC`

spotlight_switch on

When reading about Leopard, I saw the new dock/shelf. I hate it. It is a nasty resemblance to that SunOS Looking Glass project from like 5 years ago. Apple: This isn't 2001, Sun wants their wannabe desktop manager back! Thanks to my feeds I found a guy here that blogged about a hack to make the shelf go away. I even tried it at the Apple Store, it worked perfectly. I really was not going to buy Leopard, thanks to this hack I'm good to go.Here's the hack...open a terminal and type the following.....

$ defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

$ killall Dock

Here's a picture of what it looks like...

Update:Check out an official article about this hack.

At 6 a.m. nothing stops me from putting the helmet on.

Ya baby!

I finally got my iPhone up and running with the new gmail imap feature. It's great! I really dig it. Later on today I'll know how well it works over EDGE. This ought to be fun.

So I finally bit the bullet. I'm actually typing from this strange device now. This is going to be a chore to learn but I think the benefits in the long run will be far more worth it. This keyboard is "legit." I think i need to practice my typing skillz some more. Cause I'm back to square one again! w00t!!! That is all.