I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 352. Here are my solutions to them. 1: British sister […]
Category Archive: Technology
The new ASIF disk image type is now 18 months old. How well does it perform? Is it as good as claimed? It all depends on whether you want to use encryption.
After an unfortunate incident three years ago, RSRs were put on pause. Now they’ve been rebadged as BSIs, what is wrong with their current implementation? The list is long.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: British sister […]
They come in a multitude of formats and variants, and are used throughout macOS and apps. How do you use them, and what should be wary of?
Should you attempt a repair in Recovery mode? Is it just a warning? How to identify the file or folder with a problem, and what to do to fix or prevent it from recurring.
What is a BSI? Is it the same as an RSR? How does it patch vulnerabilities, and how is it installed and activated? What problems does it have, and what are its limitations?
How a Content Caching Server can be used to supply an update. Preflight checks are extensive, and lead on to other preparation. Finally the boot chime is muted, and the Mac rebooted to allow installation.
Apple has just released its first public Background Security Improvement (BSI) for macOS 26.3.1 Tahoe, labelled as BSI […]
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5334. As usual it […]
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