Introduced in macOS Ventura, these monitor for potentially malicious behaviours, according to 12 Bastion rules. Detections are recorded in its local database and reported to Apple as security intelligence. | Continue reading
The first of two articles about painting trees, featuring Rubens, Poussin, Gainsborough, Constable, Corot and others. | Continue reading
How Swift supports cooperative multitasking using async/await. How to call asynchronous code from within synchronous code, and does it also multithread code in parallel? | Continue reading
From the south-west coast of Norway, he studied under JC Dahl in Dresden between 1836-39, and specialised in dramatic nocturnes. | Continue reading
Apparently Sequoia includes user space file system support, as now used for the MSDOS file system in macOS. Is it ready to use yet? | Continue reading
Charon ferrying the dead to the Underworld, and rarely back again, Psyche in her quest, the centaur Nessus, and lots of sheep and cattle. | Continue reading
Chicago, Charcoal, Lucida Grande, Helvetica Neue, and San Francisco or SF Pro - a visual journey through 40 years. | Continue reading
The consequences of pride, when all 14 of Niobe's children are slaughtered by Apollo and Diane, but she's unrepentant to the last. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 261. Here are my solutions to them. 1: From […] | Continue reading
All about Mac firmware, from PowerPC Open Firmware to Apple silicon's LLB and iBoot, and what the rules are for updating firmware. | Continue reading
First wife of Jason of the Golden Fleece, abandoned when he went off on his quest and married Medea. He came to a sticky end, though. | Continue reading
This weekend we're in the Lake District. Wouldn't it have been simpler if, rather than preparing a notebook, all I needed was a VM with all my apps pre-installed and ready to go? | Continue reading
First wife of Paris, Prince of Troy, abandoned so he could seduce Helen. When Paris needed her to heal him, she refused then was filled with remorse. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: From the […] | Continue reading
Originally two separate apps, they were brought together in Mac OS X, and have survived largely unscathed to Sequoia. Here are some highs and lows to remember. | Continue reading
Coastal landscapes from Claude in 1639, through visits to the island of Capri, to Étretat and Monet's series, and Divisionists in the Midi. | Continue reading
Using a combination of iohid and BatteryCenter, macOS checks attached UPS and wireless keyboards, mice and trackpads ever 2-5 seconds. | Continue reading
Paintings of the Grindelwald Glacier, and various Norwegian landscapes, he died of typhoid when he was only 39. | Continue reading
The general rule for allocating threads to P and E cores according to their QoS, with fine controls such as Game Mode, and frequency control. | Continue reading
A Norwegian landscape painter who trained with JC Dahl in Dresden, and who shared themes with the German Romantic painters. | Continue reading
Differences between file-based keychains including the login keychain, and Data Protection keychain. How the Passwords app in Sequoia caters for the latter. | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the slightly earlier update to XProtect, Apple has just released an update to […] | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […] | Continue reading
In their heyday, worked elaborately in gold leaf, but lost with the realism of the Renaissance. Revived by the Pre-Raphaelites, and rarely used for secular figures. | Continue reading
Understanding terms, including process, thread and task. How the assigned Quality of Service, or QoS, is used to determine how threads are allocated to cores. | Continue reading
How Arachne came to a weaving contest against Minerva, but told the truth about gods and goddess, so was turned into a spider. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 260. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Apple’s […] | Continue reading
Sequoia's macOS VMs and Apple ID, USB storage and other devices, number of concurrent VMs, nested virtualisation, and how to run Sequoia beta in a VM on Sonoma. | Continue reading
Paintings of Morocco by Marià Fortuny, Théo van Rysselberghe, Enrique Simonet, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. | Continue reading
It's over 10 years since Apple stopped providing documentation such as programming guides. Some of the consequences on concurrency, virtualisation, AI and SwiftUI are considered here. | Continue reading
Delacroix as a pioneer of Orientalism with his paintings of Morocco, based on his visit in 1832. Then Marià Fortuny, war artist there in 1860. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Apple’s reinvention […] | Continue reading
T1 and T2 chips in Intel Macs, integral in M-series chips, used in Sequoia's virtual machines at last, and an essential feature in Private Cloud Compute. | Continue reading
His Impressionism changed into a dazzling Luminism. He painted a series of famous views of the River Thames when in exile in London. | Continue reading
Please protect your Macs from mains voltage surges and sudden loss of power using a UPS. Here's how to select and use one. | Continue reading
Rivers, rather than their banks, have been an unusual theme in landscape painting. Examples from Daubigny's series in northern France, the specialist Frits Thaulow, and many others. | Continue reading
How we have gone from spell-checking, through optical character recognition, to Sequoia's new Writing Tools that can proofread and summarise text. | Continue reading
A Norwegian who became a pupil of JC Dahl in Dresden, and painting nocturnes of Nordic ports, and awe-inspiring rocky coasts and mountains. | Continue reading
These fix auto-updates, and extend SilentKnight's Help to cover Apple silicon security. Compatible with Sequoia. | Continue reading
The helmets of Minerva, Bellona, Mars, Perseus, Achilles, Aeneas, the Knights of the Round Table, and Joan of Arc. | Continue reading
Which Macs will run Sequoia, and which are stuck on older macOS? Are there any new emoji, and what about ChatGPT? | Continue reading
How Arethusa was turned into a sacred stream, why King Lyncus was turned into a lynx, and what the Pierides were transformed into. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 259. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Thinly […] | Continue reading
From running multitasking on a single CPU, MultiFinder and cooperative multitasking, massively parallel systems using Transputers, to building concurrency into the Swift language. | Continue reading
In an act of revenge by Aphrodite, Phaedra, wife of Theseus, falls in love with her stepson Hippolytus, with tragic consequences. | Continue reading
When will we learn about macOS 15? What important changes will it bring? When will the public beta be available? Will there be any new Macs? | Continue reading
After Achilles slaughtered the rest of her family, Briseis becomes his enslaved concubine. While he's angry, she remains devoted to him until his death. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Thinly dispersed […] | Continue reading