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Category Archive: Macs

What’s stored in NVRAM?

Listing of known NVRAM variables and their usage/meaning, together with notes on how to change them.

August 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: the kernel and extensions

How macOS gets to load a hefty kernel and over 300 extensions so quickly: it cheats with a pre-linked kernelcache. And why you don’t see extensions loading in the log.

August 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple changes SMC reset on T2 Macs, and updates NVRAM reset info

Important info about resetting the NVRAM with a firmware password, and new procedures for resetting the SMC in Macs with T2 chips.

August 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Back to My Mac dies with Mojave

Apple has announced that its Back to My Mac feature will not be supported in macOS 10.14 Mojave, […]

August 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Updates all round to Blowhole, RouteMap, and the Signpost Kit

At last: RouteMap performs some analysis on your Signposts, and with the other tools can be used to estimate latency, and look at macOS system performance too.

August 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: EFI ‘firmware’

What boot.efi does to prepare to load and run the kernel: building the hardware device tree, handling startup key commands, and more.

August 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed its weekly update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 152, […]

August 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

Taking macOS to the end of time: nanoseconds count

Picking the right time system for the purpose is critical when you want to analyse very short periods. Sometimes it takes time to discover how to juggle with time.

August 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Quantum mechanics and Mojave

Doesn’t writing so much to the unified log result in performance penalties? So how can Apple expect us to use the log and Signposts to measure performance?

August 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Redacting a PDF using Adobe Acrobat

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How good is Acrobat Pro DC at redacting, checking, and cleaning sensitive documents for publication or distribution? Here are its features worked through.

August 18, 2018 Macs, Technology

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