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Category Archive: Technology

How to uninstall complex software

Using Installer to see what was installed, and manually removing the different components.

May 7, 2016 Macs, Technology

Why we should worry about the BBC and bitcoin

I cannot take bitcoins seriously, but knowing whose news to trust is an important matter.

May 6, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Storyspace 3.1: a world of difference

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Before you would spend a lot of time twiddling and tweaking timelines, windows, and more. These are all fixed in this update.

May 5, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Updating the firmware of a Promise Pegasus R4 RAID

Keeping it up to date is important, but there is a slight twist (as ever).

May 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

Silent night: El Capitan’s security settings files

Details of the undocumented settings files which Apple may update silently, but control your Mac’s security and other features.

May 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

SIP and rootless: protecting more than just system files

SIP protects your Mac from rogue KEXTs too, and prevents tools from attaching to protected processes.

May 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

A panacea for El Capitan problems: applying the latest Combo updater

Installing a Combo update of OS X is a popular panacea for puzzling problems. But you need to do a bit more to complete the job.

May 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

SIP and ‘rootless’: El Cap going beyond permissions

So which files and folders does SIP protect, and how can you work around it?

May 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Growing suspicions about El Capitan 10.11.4 and power management

After a ‘Sleep Wake Failure’ and a bizarre ‘GPU Reset’, I’m not convinced that 10.11.4 is doing this iMac much good.

April 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

OS X now blocks old versions of Flash prior to 21.0.0.226

If you have just noticed that Flash has stopped working on your Mac, it is the result of […]

April 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

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