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Category Archive: Technology

Explainer: xART and nonces

A strange volume named xART or xarts, secure memory management, and long random numbers: how they fit together to protect against replay attacks.

July 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

When you can’t send mail: fixing SMTP problems

Failure to send outgoing mail to an SMTP server is an occasional problem which can be tricky to solve. Here are some clues, and a magic solution.

July 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Volume names are still a Unicode mess

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Don’t use Unicode normalised Form C names for volumes in Disk Utility, as they cause havoc, and prevent Spotlight from indexing volumes.

July 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Making a good Recovery: So many tools

Terminal in Recovery on an M1 Mac has access to many valuable command tools, including USB-C diagnostics,options otherwise unavailable in csrutil, and more.

June 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Code in ARM Assembly: Conditional loops

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How to implement conditional looping such as for and while, and how to break out of a loop. Complete with chart of four conditional idioms.

June 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has just pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

June 28, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 105

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 105. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Play […]

June 28, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Making a good Recovery: Installing a different macOS in Recovery

Install macOS in Recovery can only install one version, which probably isn’t the one you want. How can you get an earlier version installed, then?

June 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: From assembly to Shortcuts

How little has changed in using assembly language over the last 30+ years. But what about Swift Playgrounds 4, which will let iPads create apps for the App Store?

June 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 105

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Play down a […]

June 26, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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