Extended attributes were added to Mac OS X 10.4, and soon supported the quarantine xattr. They have since flourished, and have valuable properties.
Month: September 2024
Religious paintings of the parable of the Good Samaritan, and Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, and charitable saints, before all changed in the 19th century..
SilenKnight 2.11 addresses issues with Sequoia, and is strongly recommended if you’re going to update from Monday 16 September onwards.
Myths of Perseus and Atlas, Philemon and Baucis, and the peasants of Lycia teach the ancient code of hospitality to strangers.
How much faster should a Thunderbolt 3 SSD be for making Time Machine backups? How can you speed up backups to your NAS? Here are representative speeds from real testing.
King Nisus’ daughter betrays her father and his kingdom to King Minos of Crete. Theseus kills the Minotaur kept in the labyrinth on Crete, then abducts Ariadne to Naxos, where he abandons her.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 272. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Used […]
Explains the three different settings, including Permissive Security, why you might need to reduce security, and how to do so using Startup Security Utility.
Did Sappho really throw herself from the Leucadian Cliff when she was jilted by Phaon the local ferryman, or was Ovid ridiculing the story?
If you don’t know your M2 from an M3, here’s a short summary of the timeline of their release, and their major differences, before we all get our heads around the coming M4 Macs.
The Eclectic Light Company 