Should Time Machine back up on demand, or every hour? Sierra doesn’t seem sure. And how Apple needs to think of users more in the App Store.
Category Archive: Macs
The dust is settling: should you install Sierra, wait a bit longer, or not at all?
Some malware is downright sinister, even though the damage it does may not be particularly serious. For OS […]
Time to add a second narrative thread based on an ‘authority’, and link it in with the main spine.
Seven years ago, I compared rising surveillance to the vile practices of the Stasi. Now it is happening: email, webcam, and more private communications are being scanned in bulk.
A Trackpad which disconnects and reconnects incessantly is diagnosed using a log capture.
If you can’t use Console, use the log command in Terminal – except that has some major bugs which will hide log entries from you.
Backups are no longer made every hour, but their frequency depends on the likely amount needing to be backed up. A hidden if not secret feature.
Are your backups made every hour? Are you sure? Sierra might have become smarter as to how often it backs up.
Traditional logs occupy too much space, contain unstructured information, impose overhead on all processes, and are badly cluttered.
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