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.
Category Archive: Macs
Important info about resetting the NVRAM with a firmware password, and new procedures for resetting the SMC in Macs with T2 chips.
Apple has announced that its Back to My Mac feature will not be supported in macOS 10.14 Mojave, […]
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.
What boot.efi does to prepare to load and run the kernel: building the hardware device tree, handling startup key commands, and more.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 152, […]
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.
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?
How good is Acrobat Pro DC at redacting, checking, and cleaning sensitive documents for publication or distribution? Here are its features worked through.
Passing documents containing sensitive or protected information without leaking that requires redaction – a minefield unless you know what you’re doing.
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