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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: Security updates are down again

Over the last three months, of the nine security updates to XProtect pushed by Apple, only one has been delivered and installed correctly through my Monterey Content Caching server

August 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 166

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Real-time SMS for […]

August 27, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: subsystems

Formed using reverse DNS notation, they can now have prefixes and suffixes giving them user and process identities. And how to find a list of them.

August 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Unified log structure and available data

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How Unified log entries are rich in structured information, which can be displayed selectively and using colours to aid their reading.

August 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs: 12 Installing Linux is different

Differences between the creation and installation of macOS and Linux VMs explained. A new beta-release of Liviable to create and run GUI Linux on Ventura.

August 25, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs: 11 Machine identities

If you duplicate or clone a macOS VM, you risk running two with the same ID. Here’s a new version of Viable to help make VMs with the same Machine ID.

August 24, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Has Apple broken Content Caching server updates again?

Have your Macs all installed last week’s security data updates to XProtect? If they get them through your Content Caching server, they might not have.

August 23, 2022 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 165

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 165. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Land […]

August 22, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Mints now lists firmware and recovery versions, and more

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A new version of Mints adds the ability to view versions of installed firmware and recovery systems, valuable particularly for Apple silicon Macs.

August 22, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Software Update and serendipity

I was browsing thousands of log entries from Software Update and its relatives when something caught my eye. Here’s what became of it.

August 21, 2022 Macs, Technology

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