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Disk cleanup aides

Again, some chatter at work that I wanted to note for

• Grand Perspective
• Disk Inventory X
• OmniSweeper
• AppZapper: find and destray application that haven’t been used in a long time
• Monolingual: remove localizations for unused languages
• Delocalizer: ditto

Setting localhost DNS for development sites (Mac OS X)

There’s been a discussion at work on how to get devlelopment sites, e.g. http://mysite.local, to resolve to 127.0.0.1. My colleague Ethan Winn passed along this:

#!/bin/sh

# usage:  make_vhost_dns.sh my_site.dev.local

sudo niutil -create . /machines/$1
sudo niutil -createprop . /machines/$1 ip_address 127.0.0.1
sudo niutil -createprop . /machines/$1 name $1
sudo niutil -createprop . /machines/$1 serves './local'
exit

That’s all