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Saturday, March 25, 2006

How to rebuild the LaunchServices database on MacOSX

MacOSX Hints

If your "Open With" menu shows applications that are no longer installed, or shows some of them as duplicates, you can use the following Terminal command to rebuild your LaunchServices database:


/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -f -domain local -domain system -domain user

posted by Oleg Cherkasov # 11:09 PM 0 comments

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Sun SPARC identification

To identify Sun SPARC platform with isainfo


OPTIONS
    The following options are supported:

    -b    Prints the number of bits in the address space of  the
          native instruction set.

    -k    Prints the name of the instruction set(s) used by  the
          operating  system  kernel  components  such  as device
          drivers and STREAMS modules.

    -n    Prints the name of the native instruction set used  by
          portable applications supported by the current version
          of the operating system.

    -v    Prints  more  detailed  information  about  the  other
          options.

posted by Oleg Cherkasov # 10:36 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Windows, clean up start up items with regedit

regedit clean up start up apps:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Windows FAQ

posted by Oleg Cherkasov # 7:36 AM 0 comments

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