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Category Archive: Technology

How can I bring my Mac up to date with firmware and system updates?

Keeping your Mac up to date is essential if it’s to benefit from latest security fixes and protection against malware. How to deal with problems.

August 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance

How macOS now has anti-malware scanners checking your Mac automatically many times each day for the most frequent malware.

August 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 166

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 166. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Real-time […]

August 29, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Are command tools getting out of their depth?

They now get signed, an Info.plist is embedded, they’re notarized by Apple, use the hardened runtime, maybe the App Sandbox, and request entitlements. So how do you check their version?

August 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Security updates are down again

Over the last three months, of the nine security updates to XProtect pushed by Apple, only one has been delivered and installed correctly through my Monterey Content Caching server

August 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 166

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Real-time SMS for […]

August 27, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: subsystems

Formed using reverse DNS notation, they can now have prefixes and suffixes giving them user and process identities. And how to find a list of them.

August 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Unified log structure and available data

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How Unified log entries are rich in structured information, which can be displayed selectively and using colours to aid their reading.

August 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs: 12 Installing Linux is different

Differences between the creation and installation of macOS and Linux VMs explained. A new beta-release of Liviable to create and run GUI Linux on Ventura.

August 25, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs: 11 Machine identities

If you duplicate or clone a macOS VM, you risk running two with the same ID. Here’s a new version of Viable to help make VMs with the same Machine ID.

August 24, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

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