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Which EFI firmware should your Mac be using?

A checklist of the latest EFI firmware versions which should be running on each recent Mac model.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Silent High Sierra night: security settings files in macOS High Sierra

List of current version numbers for security data files and other systems which Apple may push silent updates for. Includes new EFI firmware checker.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

xattred 0.4a3 fixes window resizing

There was an extremely annoying minor bug in window resizing. It’s now fixed.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

MakeLogarchive can now catalogue any well-formed logarchive

The catalogue includes the dates and times each log file was created and completed, size, and the period of time covered by it.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Coast: Clarkson Stanfield’s spectacles of sea and sky

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A sailor for over 7 years, he knew the sea. He then became a highly successful painter of scenery and panoramas. See his superb painting of St Michael’s Mount.

October 3, 2017 General, Life, Painting

MakeLogarchive enables Consolation to read individual log files

The combination lets you browse tracev3 log files within a log archive, which MakeLogarchive can create from raw logs in /var/db.

October 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 45 – How came the Horn of Plenty

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Ovid, through Achelous the river god, explains how the Horn of Plenty was wrenched from Achelous’ head in a fight with Hercules. With a gem of modern narrative painting too.

October 2, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Consolation 3.0b9 can now open individual log files but…

Consolation can now open logarchive and individual tracev3 log files, provided that they conform to Apple’s logarchive format.

October 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

There’s trouble in that firmware: EFI chaos

As Apple controls hardware, firmware, system software, and their updates, EFI firmware should be kept up to date reliably. But it isn’t. What’s gone wrong?

October 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

If you go down to the woods: leaf-peeping

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Paintings of trees in their magnificent autumn colours by Millais, Inness, Monet, Homer, Pissarro, Tom Thomson, Paul Nash, and more.

October 1, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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