A replacement for the NetInfo service in NeXTSTEP and early Mac OS X, Open Directory is an LDAPv3 service delivered as Directory Services, and essential to permissions, authentication and more.
Yellow for harvest at the end of the dry summer. Also mixed with blues and greens, although sometimes not proving lightfast.
How can you use San Francisco, the system font for macOS and Apple’s other OSes? An example traced through from macOS internals to PDF and HTML.
An overview of the German Romantic painters including Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl, with links to all the original articles in this series.
Three new versions that are compatible with Writing Tools in Sequoia 15.1 beta, and should perform better in other recent versions of macOS.
Largely restricted among Classical deities to Hermes, Cupid, and personifications of winds, heavenly bodies, and events, the gift of flight extends to angels and even saints.
Advanced settings for users have been moved out of Users & Groups, but are still accessible in Directory Utility for those who are careful not to do anything hazardous.
Humans have always wanted to fly, but Icarus warned us of the dangers. Despite those, Goethe’s Faust, witches, and pioneers with hot air balloons seem to have succeeded.
Should you try changing NVRAM settings in an Apple silicon Mac? As they’re almost certain to have no beneficial effect, and could require lengthy procedures to reset them, it’s best not to try.
As I forecast only yesterday, Apple has today released macOS Sonoma version 14.6. According to its previous calendar, […]
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