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Explore floating-point number formats in Mints 1.17

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New version fixes a bug, and adds a new window to explore floating-point number formats, as demonstrated here. And a surprise from Apple.

February 17, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Check whether your Mac’s sudo is vulnerable with Mints 1.1

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Now checks whether the sudo vulnerability has been patched, and improves Spotlight search testing too.

February 22, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

What’s changed in Big Sur 11.2.1?

The surprise minor update to macOS 11.2.1 is smaller in size than the 11.2 update: around 2.4 GB […]

February 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Why privileged commands may never be allowed

Running an AppleScript which tries to run a shell command with root privileges can fail. Here’s why, and what we can’t do about it.

February 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Sudo outside Terminal

Is there a sudo facility outside Terminal?

September 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Not a sudoer

How can I use the sudo command from a non-admin user account?

August 12, 2015 Macs, Technology
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