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Brings a new feature, to check whether a firmware password is set. For Mojave, adds online check of current versions, and help with privacy protection.
The command bless used to be able to control all things to do with booting, but has become steadily less useful with the advent of SIP and others.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 153, […]
Single-diagram summary of how a modern Mac starts up in macOS 10.12 or 10.13, from pressing the Power button to running the kernel.
How macOS gets to load a hefty kernel and over 300 extensions so quickly: it cheats with a pre-linked kernelcache. And why you don’t see extensions loading in the log.
Apple has announced that its Back to My Mac feature will not be supported in macOS 10.14 Mojave, […]
At last: RouteMap performs some analysis on your Signposts, and with the other tools can be used to estimate latency, and look at macOS system performance too.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 152, […]
Picking the right time system for the purpose is critical when you want to analyse very short periods. Sometimes it takes time to discover how to juggle with time.
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