thisismyblog.com » Tips & Tricks http://thisismyblog.com The blog of Espen Sae-Tang Ottersen, an all-around computer geek from Oslo, Norway. Interests include information architecture, design, semantic web, web standars, social networking, and other techy things. On this website you will mostly find posts on software and the web, with a few words from his personal life now and then. Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Podcast and WordPress update http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/08/podcast-and-wordpress-update/ http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/08/podcast-and-wordpress-update/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:00:18 +0000 Espen http://thisismyblog.com/?p=123 I just finished updating the WordPress installation powering this website to version 2.6.3. Sorry for the downtime. As you also might have noticed I have voice enabled the website using Odiogo; look for the “listen now” button in the articles. If you have a blog and would like to create a podcast out of your content Odiogo will take your RSS feed and convert it to audio using text-to-speech technology. The service is available to bloggers for free! You will however get a small Odiogo ad at the start. Odiogo also provides services to mainstream media.

]]> http://thisismyblog.com/2008/11/08/podcast-and-wordpress-update/feed/ 2 DNS flush http://thisismyblog.com/2008/08/18/dns-flush/ http://thisismyblog.com/2008/08/18/dns-flush/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:35:00 +0000 Espen http://thisismyblog.com/?p=3 All of the websites you visit get their domain resolved to get their IP address so you can actually connect to it, right?That information is stored locally in a cache. Then there is the occasions when you know the IP address of the server has changed but you still got the caches version. What to do? Flush the cache! The way to do this differs from OS to OS. Below I have mentioned how to do this on the most popular systems. If you know about how to do this on other systems feel free to leave a comment.:-)

Leopard: Open Terminal.app (search for it with Spotlight), then write on the command: dscacheutil -flushcache Voilá!
Tiger: Open Terminal.app (search for it with Spotlight), then write: lookupd -flushcache Voilá!
Windows: Click Start->Run. Type cmd into the text field, then write: ipconfig /flushdns Voilá!
Linux: Open your terminal or shell of choice and, run /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart Voilá!

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