I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 266. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Skipper […]
Category Archive: Macs
Ownership can mean two very different things on Macs: it might be about Unix permissions, or Apple silicon boot policy. How to tell them apart so you use the right solution for ownership problems.
macOS Sonoma 14.6 is likely to be released next week, rather than as expected in September. How does this change future updates and which version you should be running?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Skipper or […]
How we crashed and burned with the best of them, from recovery disks in classic Mac OS, to unexpected restarts and hidden panic logs.
How large should the drive be to store all your backups for the next couple of years? Here’s how to work that out for Time Machine and other apps.
It may seem strange, but each new version of macOS brings a hidden feature that determines which older […]
How 3rd party developers used KPIs for drivers and much else in kernel extensions. These are now being replaced progressively by System Extensions. This is the state of play.
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 140, […]
Improves performance by changing it log access to use the OSLog API, adds local time to its reports, and provides more space for long scanner names.
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