I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 198. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Visible […]
Category Archive: Technology
How an obscure ACL can prevent a quarantine flag from being attached to an internet download: demonstration and explanation.
There’s a big difference between the storage that’s available, and what’s advisable. Whether it’s affordable is another question.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Visible vapour after […]
For a while, most users worked in Mac OS 8.6, 9.0 was new and a beast, and there was also the Public Beta of Mac OS X. So how did we manage memory then?
Apple has just released an urgent security update to macOS Ventura, bringing it to version 13.3.1. This addresses […]
Here’s an APFS (Encrypted) volume that isn’t encrypted, and an unencrypted volume with FileVault active. Something must be wrong.
Why should you trim an SSD? How to tell whether an SSD needs trimming, finding out whether it has trim support, and whether it does trim.
Details of the three standard Cryptexes in Ventura 13.3, when they can be loaded in the boot process, and where they fit in with Rapid Security Responses.
Should you run First Aid on every volume, then each container? And why can it return status 65? How can you work around that?
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