Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 158

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 158. Here are my solutions to them.

1: It used to be assiduous effort but is now cut down to the extension for programs.

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app

It used to be assiduous effort (application) but is now cut down (shortened to app) to the extension for programs (.app).

2: Nerve fibres, odds and ends in a handkerchief, structured collection of files.

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bundle

Nerve fibres (bundle), odds and ends in a handkerchief (bundle), structured collection of files (what a bundle is).

3: Nucleus with a conservatory could bring panic if it’s in a loaded collection.

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kernel extension (kext)

Nucleus (kernel) with a conservatory (a type of domestic extension) could bring panic (as they can) if it’s in a loaded collection (how they’re now loaded in Big Sur and later).

The common factor

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They’re all special types of folder which pose as files.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.

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Duncan on July 4, 2022 at 2:18 pm

I was caught up with ‘odds and ends in a handkerchief’. The stereotype of a hobo carrying his meager possessions in a cloth tied to the end of a stick (usually carried over his shoulder) has been called a ‘bindle stiff’, with ‘bindle’ being a variation of ‘bundle’. It’s an archaic term, but knowing how literal these riddles can be I assumed you chose that specific application (assiduous effort) as a clue.

Which makes no sense in this context so I’ll accept ‘bundle’ instead.

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  hoakley on July 4, 2022 at 2:57 pm
  
  Thank you. Curiously, the SOED considers ‘bindle’ to be relatively recent North American slang. Perhaps Apple needs to introduce it into its corporate lexicon.
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1: It used to be assiduous effort but is now cut down to the extension for programs.

app

2: Nerve fibres, odds and ends in a handkerchief, structured collection of files.

bundle

3: Nucleus with a conservatory could bring panic if it’s in a loaded collection.

kernel extension (kext)

The common factor

They’re all special types of folder which pose as files.

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