Spring is here – time to do some cleaning of the blog to help you access current articles more easily.
macOS
A starting point for diagnosing and fixing your Mac problems, with links to key articles here.
Why does almost every Mac user use their system in an admin role? Shouldn’t macOS encourage us to be ‘normal’ users?
Factoring the code better to separate reading and writing the underlying data, and converting that for display.
In an undocumented change, 10.12.4 prevents any access to reading Sierra’s log when in normal user mode – it requires admin mode.
From 10.8 onwards, you will not see the classic grey display, but your Mac will spontaneously restart or shut down. Here are the details, and what to do next.
Progress with Rosettavert to convert text encoding, including popup menus with 144 entries. But stumbling still on an issue of string encoding.
A listing of the locations of all those apps and utilities which you can never seem to find when you want them. Also covers command tools.
Scripting a friendly front-end for the iconv tool to convert text between 144 different types of encoding. Also how to open as well as save documents.
How can you get the Unicode normalised form from within an app, or when you’re writing your own tools and scripts? unorml may be just the job.
