Recommended for all users, this adds a count of log entries and lines, runs an initial check to see whether you’re logged in as an admin user, and more.
Category Archive: Macs
Over a period of one minute 1636 of a total of 8638 log entries were censored with the mark ‘private’. Why can’t we disable this censorship?
Everyone should be able to get this week’s. Why not have a try yourself?
Do you know how to customise the zsh shell now standard in Catalina? Here’s an excellent book which covers it in detail – and curious choice in 10.15.
What if you don’t want whole disk encryption? If your Mac doesn’t have T2, or if you’re using an external drive, encryption is still performed in software. Here’s a good solution.
When everything is running sweetly, macOS performance isn’t a problem. In most respects, though, 10.15 is no better prepared to cope with problems than 10.0 was almost 20 years ago.
New version tells you free space available on your backup volumes, as well as checking for errors occurring during backups.
Dealing with protected PDFs in macOS: fully encrypted, and those with controls such as no printing or copying. Oh dear.
How many solutions did you come up with this week? It should have been quite possible to get all three.
How to reset them, and what they do. Includes coverage of the SMC functions in T2 chips, and how to reset them too.
The Eclectic Light Company 