Hugo Sombreireiro

So I had to configure a sharepoint server access on macos and it was not able to resolve the host name. I know how to do this in windows using lmhosts.sam but I didn’t know how the Mac would handle such task. So I went digging and these are my findings:

1. Edit private/etc/hosts and include your host (I used vi) . For example:

### Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.##
127.0.0.1       localhost255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
192.168.0.5     myserver

DO NOT CHANGE the localhost and broadcasthost settings.

2. Test it using PING

$ ping myserver

And at this point everything should be working. If not please verify your host definition (step 1). If everything’s ok try to reboot in case the new settings are not being loaded.
This was only tested on MacOS X 10.5.5 and you must have root permissions to accomplish the task as the hosts file is read only for non root users.

This year Max Europe will take place in Milan, Italy from December 1st to December 4th. Early bird registration available until September 21st!
For more details visit Max’s website.

Students, faculty and educational institutions can now get ColdFusion for free, pretty much like the Flex Builder program. You can get it at https://freeriatools.adobe.com/coldfusion.

After a blog sabbatical I’m back to talk about stuff you may or may not be interested in
I downloaded and tested Chrome like half the people in the developer world (maybe a little bit more) and here are my considerations:

- Chrome did crash 8 times under Vista while browsing both flash and non-flash sites
- Chrome was slow as hell running javascript intensive sites
- Chrome was logging every letter I typed in (I then disabled the feature but still….)
- Chrome had flaws in CSS rendering on a couple of sites with certified CSS

In a nutshell that’s my overall impression on Chrome! Needless to say I uninstalled it already!
I’ll give it another try when another version comes out.