Which extended attributes are attached to downloaded archives and apps? How do they fit in with provenance tracking? | Continue reading
He studied in Odesa, Munich and St Petersburg, then painted in Russia until he emigrated to Paris in 1925, and on to New York in 1933. | Continue reading
If you thought that App Translocation only happens to apps left in their original folders and not moved, and doesn’t happen after first run, this could come as a surprise. | Continue reading
Ajax goes mad, then falls on his sword. The Greeks are told they need their master-archer and Achilles’ son, but still have to come up with a way of entering the city of Troy. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 202. Here are my solutions to them. 1: For three years this SoC was a bridge to the arm. Click for a solution T2 chip For three years (… | Continue reading
Full listings of each version of macOS and update installed on that Mac, now includes RSRs. A mine of information. | Continue reading
Major macOS releases from Sierra to Ventura, with full details of each release and security update. Also updates to XProtect, MRT and Gatekeeper. | Continue reading
The model for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this couple committed suicide when each presumed they had brought the death of the other. | Continue reading
We should have expected Apple to remain silent about what the RSR does. But ruining its own clean and logical version numbering system was unexpected. | Continue reading
Byron, no stranger to forbidden love, swam across the Dardanelles in 1810, retracing the strokes of the legendary Leander who died trying to reach his lover Hero. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: For three years this SoC was a bridge to the arm. 2: This cat came with the first meeting poi… | Continue reading
With the sealed system and Cryptexes, macOS updates are less likely to cause problems. As RSRs are easy to uninstall, it's simple to test whether they're the cause. | Continue reading
Leonardo da Vinci studied different types of shade and shadow, but recommended painters not to depict cast shadows in their paintings. This explains why. | Continue reading
In just over a month, Apple is expected to announce macOS 14. How many Intel Macs without T2 chips are likely to be supported? What about their firmware? | Continue reading
More paintings of music, from the Aesthetic watercolour of Marie Spartali Stillman to folk dance, and Vuillard's friends playing in his apartment. | Continue reading
How does copy on write work, and how do clones grow apart? What effect do they have on the use of space and performance? | Continue reading
Evoking music from a painting is a serious challenge, yet many artists have tried it. See if any of these work for you. From Lavinia Fontana to Degas. | Continue reading
What does Safe mode do to all those service caches managed by CacheDelete? Does it still check your boot disk too? | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing it to version 97. This should supersede both versions 95 and 96, depending on… | Continue reading
When run on Intel Macs without a T2 chip in Ventura 13.3.1, LockRattler may crash because of a bug in macOS. This update fixes it. | Continue reading
A prolific landscape painter who taught key members of the avant garde. He was also a founding supporter of Kyiv Zoo. | Continue reading
Intended to be lightweight, timely and quick to install, the first RSR has now been provided for Ventura. Did you know you can also uninstall it easily? | Continue reading
Apple has just released the first of its new Rapid Security Responses (RSRs) for macOS 13.3.1 Ventura. This is indicated as macOS Rapid Security Response 13.3.1 (a), and is just just over 300 MB to… | Continue reading
First, Achilles kills Penthesileia, an Amazon, whose great beauty fills him with remorse. Then come Memnon, who proves Achilles’ undoing by Paris’s arrow. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 201. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Show in the atelier that vanished for 18 years until 2022. Click for a solution Macintosh Studio… | Continue reading
These now analyse log reports from XProtect Remediator more robustly, and are more discerning in ranking them, so clearer to use. | Continue reading
In 1869 he sailed on board 'Panther' on an expedition to Greenland and the Arctic. Among his subsequent commissioned paintings was one for Queen Victoria. | Continue reading
An update users didn’t know about might have installed a security tool they don’t know about, whose reports they can’t see. | Continue reading
In the 1850s and 60s he was a successful marine artist, working in whaling ports such as Fairhaven, before moving to Boston. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Show in the atelier that vanished for 18 years until 2022. 2: Exhibition for movies until str… | Continue reading
Follow along as we connect to the Internet 21 years ago in Mac OS X 10.2, using a Bluetooth dongle and a mobile phone, at 28.8 Kbps. | Continue reading
Explaining shade, attached and cast shadows seen in paintings. While the first two have been generally painted faithfully, cast shadows are more complicated. | Continue reading
Similarities and differences, how to make each in the Finder and Terminal, how much space they use, and how they work in APFS. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing it to version 96. Apple doesn’t release information about what security… | Continue reading
One of the charges leading to Joan of Arc being burned at the stake was that she cross-dressed in male military clothing. | Continue reading
After studying thousand of log entries in less than 2 seconds, this is how macOS updates its values for purgeable and available space. But who uses them? | Continue reading
The curious myth of the swashbuckling hero Hercules dressed in women's clothing and forced to serve Queen Omphale. | Continue reading
Free that space before macOS has to purge it for you. Using housekeeping, moving Documents and media libraries, but not relocating Home folders. | Continue reading
Trained in Kyiv, Kraków, and with Matisse in Paris, he is best known for his virtuoso Impressionist oil sketches. | Continue reading
hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1. | Continue reading
The river runs red with the blood of Trojans before Achilles gets his chance to fight Hector, and kills him. Then he dishonours the Trojan's body. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 200. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The first, for the rest of us, but needed to gain weight quickly. Click for a solution Macintosh… | Continue reading
Deleting two large files from a volume triggered the updating of figures for purgeable and available space within 9 seconds. Yet 6 minutes later, the Finder didn’t show those updated figures. | Continue reading
John Crome, a quiet innovator and founder of the Norwich School, Frederick Sandys, Thomas Girtin and others in Norfolk and Lincoln. | Continue reading
One volume has 60 GB of purgeable space, giving 295 GB available; the other has only 15 GB purgeable, so 250 GB available. How can they be in the same container? | Continue reading
From Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, via the wooded countryside of Gainsborough and Constable, to the coast of Philip Wilson Steer. | Continue reading
Almost four years ago, on 29 June 2019, I posted my first Saturday Mac Riddles. To mark their 200th edition, here are this weekend’s four special riddles to entertain you through family time,… | Continue reading
Save space on your storage and backups by removing all copies. But does it work if they’re APFS clone files? And does that housekeeping utility detect clones for you? | Continue reading