December 2010
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Hosts on OSX
If you’ve done web development on a local machine and had to juggle multiple applications, you probably wound up assigning independent URLs to each application via the hosts file. And if you’ve jumped between platforms, you may have stumbled for a moment trying to figure out where to add your new records. OSX is no different.
OSX’s host file, located at /etc/hosts contains...
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transfer files via rsync with resume
Ages ago, at an old gig, we wound up regularly having to juggle large tarballs when deploying to the staging environments. We used scp, which worked great when there weren’t network issues. I had heard of rsync, but in a windows shop I wasn’t given leeway to change how things were done for our legacy RHEL environments.
But I’ve learned better since.
via the manpage
rsync...