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Category Archive: Macs

More useful information gleaned from sysdiagnose

Looking in greater detail at what you can get from running sysdiagnose.

February 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

Activity Monitor, ps and top: probing processes

ps and top are far superior tools for looking at processes than Activity Monitor.

February 7, 2016 Macs, Technology

The ultimate diagnostic tool: sysdiagnose

When you have tried everything else, this shell command will throw the book at your problem, running all the diagnostics it can.

February 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

Java update 74

Oracle has just released Java 8 update 74 build 02, available either as version 8u73 or 8u74. This […]

February 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Scareware targeting OS X (updated)

Johannes Ullrich has just reported some scareware which could trouble OS X users. This is detailed in his […]

February 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Unintended consequences of SIP

El Capitan’s no-go areas make many important extensions unusable now. Apple must step in and enhance OS X to compensate.

February 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

TextSoap, App Store departure, and the update void

What happens when a product leaves the App Store, and is then updated? Its users enter the update void.

February 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

Storyspace 3: exploding poetry, and progress bars

T T Read More

Tutorial showing how to turn long text passages into hypertext, add progress bars, and summary tables.

February 3, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Technology

BT and the largest UK Internet failure?

With “hundreds of thousands” of customers left without Internet connections for several hours, BT’s massive outage is too unimportant for its own News site.

February 3, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The surrogate, virtual, and intangible, and their worth

Alphabet (formerly Google) now has the largest market capitalisation of any company in the world. That’s got to be news, hasn’t it?

February 2, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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