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Category Archive: Macs

Removing all your old backups: a tortuous tale of permissions and links

It’s tempting just to put the folder in the Trash. But this could be a quick way to acquire a more complex problem.

May 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

More new Mac malware expected soon: OSX.Snake?

Spring is obviously the season for the detection of new malware affecting macOS and OS X users. This […]

May 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

New and existing bugs in the unified log in Sierra 10.12.4-6

Significant bugs or undesirable features limiting log, Console, and os_log as of 10.12.4.

May 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Running background activities

Getting GCD to schedule and dispatch a packaged external task, like a backup, is actually straightforward. Here’s how.

May 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Keeping Background Tasks in the Background: DispatchRider

An experimental tool to let you schedule background tasks of your own, which are managed by Grand Central Dispatch. First alpha release.

May 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

More new malware: OSX.Dok.B or OSX.Bella, but we’re already protected

Apple’s recent updates to XProtect and MRT covered not only OSX/Dok, the new Trojan discovered by Ofer Caspi […]

May 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

More bugs in Sierra’s log system, and a new release of Blowhole

Sierra 10.12.4 introduced undocumented changes in the log system which may break apps which write to the logs. Here is Blowhole fixed for that change.

May 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Watching Grand Central Dispatch at Work

The aim is to be able to run commands at regular intervals using GCD rather than launchd. Here are details of the code and resulting log entries, casting light on how GCD works.

May 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent update to XProtect and MRT for OSX/Dok malware

Apple has, over the last 24 hours, pushed silent updates which address the threat from the latest OSX/Dok […]

April 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Going back to the book

Search engines don’t work, as they’re indifferent to quality and accuracy of content. Existing eBook formats are little more than book-in-browser. So how to publish more demanding content?

April 30, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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