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Category Archive: Technology

A short trip with rootless: what you can and cannot do

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How to attach a metadata flag to a file or folder, to bring it under the protection of SIP.

January 5, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Seeing History: Illusions of the real

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Paintings on walls and ceilings created a virtual reality long before the term was coined. Even now, they can be breathtaking in effect.

January 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The first and only extended attribute editor: xattred 0.7a1

Can now edit the content of existing xattrs, and create completely new ones, with arbitrary content.

January 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

xattred 0.6a2 sees hidden files and folders, and more

Tweaked to see and open any file or folder, even inside bundles, and to fix a display glitch with binary property lists.

January 3, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra

When you can’t remove an app which you installed just a few minutes ago, you know there’s something wrong. Here’s the solution, and why this is bad security.

January 2, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

You can now really edit extended attributes with xattred

Now supports cut, copy and paste of any xattr between files or folders. Also adds quarantine flags, and reveals full content of most xattrs.

January 2, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Scripting in Swift: Casting, Any, and implicit mutability

When to use as, as!, or as?, how to handle Any, and when you need to use var instead of let even though you don’t change the value.

January 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Year on My Mac: Accident-prone

2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.

December 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

Essential Reading: *OS Internals, Vol I, User Space, by Jonathan Levin

Long-awaited, this new book tries to cover most of the ground that the advanced Mac user, developer, sysadmin, or support person needs to understand.

December 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Safari offline reader is rapidly becoming functionless

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Offline reading is an important feature for many Safari users, particularly on iOS devices and laptop models. So why doesn’t it work?

December 28, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

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