In a VM hosted on an M4, upgrading 14.7.5 to 15.4.1 took an 8.7 GB download and worked. From 15.1 to 15.4.1 took over 15 GB and failed with a kernel panic.
Category Archive: Macs
Intel Macs tell you why they last shut down, in the ‘shutdown cause code’ written to the log by their System Management Controller. What do Apple silicon Macs do?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Glance at […]
From early code pages based on language-specific variants of Extended ASCII, through 2-byte support in WorldScript II, to Unicode and the annual emoji update.
Displaying rows containing text fields of widely varying length and content type is a challenge. SwiftUI List View can be an excellent solution as shown here.
You discover your Mac has either restarted itself and is waiting for you to log in, or has simply shut itself down. How to find out why this happened, in Intel and Apple silicon.
Apple has just released an urgent security update to macOS Sequoia to bring it to version 15.4.1. There […]
How PlugInKit gets information about all installed app extensions, nd how it informs the services that use those extensions. Why killing the LaunchServices database may not be a good idea.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
How to save the panic log safely. Looking up the immediate cause of the panic, getting OS details, what to see in a memory leak, what task resulted in the panic, and 3rd party kernel extensions.
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