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Category Archive: Macs

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 270

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 270. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

August 26, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Links, aliases and the decline of paths

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Symlinks are popular but prove fragile when folders get renamed or moved. Hard links don’t support directories and can’t cross volumes. The alias works best overall, but isn’t supported in Terminal.

August 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Layered security and herd immunity

Security in macOS is designed and applied in multiple layers to remain effective even when one layer is bypassed, and herd protection determines types of attack.

August 25, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 270

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The periodical […]

August 24, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of the Finder Alias

Introduced in System 7 in 1991, long before symbolic and hard links became available in Mac OS X, they’ve been revised and extended to bookmarks since.

August 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

Why launch constraints can crash apps

One cause of an app crashing as soon as it’s launched, these constraints prevent you from running bundled apps copied elsewhere, and can now be used by third-party apps.

August 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

Dual-booting your Mac with multiple versions of APFS

What if you want to boot your Mac using two or more different versions of macOS, with different versions of APFS? Here’s how to avoid problems.

August 22, 2024 Macs, Technology

Controlling System Integrity Protection using csrutil: a reference

Why disable the whole of SIP when all you need is to disable some of its features? Here are all the options explained, and how to combine them.

August 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to […]

August 20, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Sonoma’s unfinished business: exclaves, conclaves and the kernel

Sonoma 14.4 added support for exclaves and conclaves, which are used in Sequoia’s virtual machines. What is an exclave, and what does it add?

August 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

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