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Category Archive: Technology

Brolly 1.1 now does its own testing of secure connections

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Now checks which versions of TLS a server supports, and gives details of its full headers with caching disabled.

October 8, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Upgrading to Big Sur or Monterey: migrating Time Machine backups

Can you migrate your old backups from HFS+ to APFS format? What can slow your backups down? Can you still use AFP, and what about restoring the system?

October 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time Machine presentation at MacSysAdmin

Links to my presentation, and to a selection of useful articles about Time Machine backups to APFS, and more.

October 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Taming the App Store: getting timely updates

How can you ensure the App Store offers you all the updates which it has available? Here’s a simple method which works around its limitations.

October 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Brolly: a utility to help understand failed secure connections

A convenient utility to check secure connections under ATS using the nscurl command tool. For El Capitan to Monterey.

October 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 119

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 119. Here are my solutions to them. 1: In […]

October 4, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How Safari 15 checks a secure connection

A detailed walk through the log shows Safari 15 checking Safe Browsing, phishing sites using ML, and performing trust evaluation of certificates.

October 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Web woes worsen

It should have been so easy: a quick change of Root certificate. So why all the chaos, and most of all why you mustn’t compromise your security as a result.

October 3, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 119

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: In among speech, […]

October 2, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Security certificates

Why do we keep having problems with security certificates when they’re just supposed to work? A look at what they do, and they work.

October 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

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