Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Shift for […]
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Apps often have to use separate services to perform privileged tasks for them, or run time-consuming activities in the background. XPC is how the client communicates with those services.
One Thunderbolt port is the designated DFU port, to be used when connecting via USB-C in DFU mode, and to be avoided for external bootable disks. But how can you identify it?
This week’s XProtect update is important in extending its ability to check scripts now popular in malware. These are run when macOS is preparing to run a script.
You press the Power button, but nothing happens. Has your Mac suddenly died, does it have a problem you can fix easily, or is it just in DFU mode?
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5327. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
After the Boot ROM, LLB and iBoot (stage 2), kernel boot starts setting up security services and putting the hardware to work. CPU cores are started up before file systems are mounted, and the Mac starts userspace boot.
Apple has just released security updates for macOS Catalina and Big Sur. Yes, you saw that right, macOS […]
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 345. Here are my solutions to them. 1: No amateur […]
As Time Machine has changed, first to back up APFS volumes, then to create backups as snapshots, its needs have changed. This makes it complicated to decide which local snapshots you can delete without affecting its backups.
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