Gleaning has Biblical origins, to let the poor get their own free supply of grain. Was it confined to the poorest, and did it remain a right, later in Europe? | Continue reading
Extended attributes were added to Mac OS X 10.4, and soon supported the quarantine xattr. They have since flourished, and have valuable properties. | Continue reading
Religious paintings of the parable of the Good Samaritan, and Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, and charitable saints, before all changed in the 19th century.. | Continue reading
SilenKnight 2.11 addresses issues with Sequoia, and is strongly recommended if you're going to update from Monday 16 September onwards. | Continue reading
Myths of Perseus and Atlas, Philemon and Baucis, and the peasants of Lycia teach the ancient code of hospitality to strangers. | Continue reading
How much faster should a Thunderbolt 3 SSD be for making Time Machine backups? How can you speed up backups to your NAS? Here are representative speeds from real testing. | Continue reading
King Nisus' daughter betrays her father and his kingdom to King Minos of Crete. Theseus kills the Minotaur kept in the labyrinth on Crete, then abducts Ariadne to Naxos, where he abandons her. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 272. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Used […] | Continue reading
Explains the three different settings, including Permissive Security, why you might need to reduce security, and how to do so using Startup Security Utility. | Continue reading
Did Sappho really throw herself from the Leucadian Cliff when she was jilted by Phaon the local ferryman, or was Ovid ridiculing the story? | Continue reading
If you don't know your M2 from an M3, here's a short summary of the timeline of their release, and their major differences, before we all get our heads around the coming M4 Macs. | Continue reading
The story of Hypermnestra's faithfulness to her husband, her trial for not murdering him, and what happened to her sisters, the Danaides. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Used by […] | Continue reading
Released in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on 26 October 2007, it supported Time Capsules launched in January 2008, and in Big Sur could back up to APFS. | Continue reading
Her studies of light moved indoors, using the shadows of kerosene lanterns, and depicting women in church. | Continue reading
If you're running any version of SilentKnight before 2.10, you need to update it now for compatibility with Catalina and later, particularly for Sequoia. And there are more essential updates too. | Continue reading
Was ripe wheat cut using a sickle, hook, or scythe? Paintings from 1565 to 1890 show a preference for scythes when men were available. | Continue reading
If you want to update or install macOS differently from what is offered in Software Update, here are the options, and what each is best for. | Continue reading
Scathing satire from Honoré Daumier and Jean-Louis Forain, together with view of the Old Bailey, a Norwegian magistrate, and a German court lit by candles. | Continue reading
Safari and its supporting frameworks and components, used to be installed in the Data volume, but now come in cryptexes. These also account for the larger macOS updates for Apple silicon. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to […] | Continue reading
The stories of Cambyses the corrupt judge, Phryne charged with impiety, the judgement of Solomon, the Tichborne Trial, and several others. | Continue reading
App launch security is built in multiple layers, and not all check are run on every launch of an app. Syspolicy plays a key role, CDHashes are now central, and XProtect scans can make checks on large apps slow. | Continue reading
One of Ovid's best stories, of a man who inadvertently kills his wife when she suspects him of having an affair with a nymph when he should be hunting. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 271. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Table […] | Continue reading
Exactly what is the disk shown in the Finder named Macintosh HD, in Big Sur and later versions of macOS? An exploration of the structure of the modern boot disk. | Continue reading
Led by progressive administrations in the French Republic and Scotland, secular classes improved discipline and improved their pupils. | Continue reading
At first, I thought the new XProtect version should be 5272, but some updated without that version changing. Then I stumbled across a secret way to update. Not a good omen for the release of Sequoia. | Continue reading
Chaos in the barren classrooms of the 1600s gradually restored to order over the following two centuries as boys and girls learned to read and write. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Table of […] | Continue reading
How a dogcow from Cairo came to grace the Page Setup dialog in Classic Mac OS, was retired for Mac OS X, and has made a comeback since Ventura. | Continue reading
One of Norway's most famous artists, a pioneering woman painter and influential teacher. Exploring the play of light on interiors and more. | Continue reading
How SilentKnight can install macOS updates, up to a point, and how you can recover from an inadvertent download of a macOS update. | Continue reading
Stone-picking to improve the soil. A series of paintings of the Sower, broadcasting seed by hand. Weeding the fields to help the crop grow. | Continue reading
Three malicious apps - Atomic Stealer, Genieo and XCSSET - against macOS 14.6.1, with full security, SIP disabled, and Gatekeeper disabled. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […] | Continue reading
What happens when a mortal is turned into a heavenly body, as with Orion; or when the Virgin Mary was taken up into Heaven. | Continue reading
If you thought spctl disabled Gatekeeper assessments, and disabling SIP had little effect, then you might like to think again. | Continue reading
What happens when a pre-christian hero is elevated to the status of god or goddess. Starring Hercules, Aeneas, Romulus and others. | Continue reading
Details of security checks including Gatekeeper, XProtect and notarization, performed when launching an app in full security. | Continue reading
After the people of Aegina are almost wiped out by a plague, Jupiter gives its king an army of hard workers who became the fearsome Myrmidons in the Trojan War. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 270. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […] | Continue reading
Symlinks are popular but prove fragile when folders get renamed or moved. Hard links don't support directories and can't cross volumes. The alias works best overall, but isn't supported in Terminal. | Continue reading
Probably the first specialist painter of horses in Europe, he depicted many racehorses of the rich and famous, and even painted the Queen's Ass. | Continue reading
Security in macOS is designed and applied in multiple layers to remain effective even when one layer is bypassed, and herd protection determines types of attack. | Continue reading
Equestrian paintings of those who followed George Stubbs: Théodore Géricault, James Ward, Horace Vernet, Eugène Delacroix, and Edgar Degas. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The periodical […] | Continue reading
Introduced in System 7 in 1991, long before symbolic and hard links became available in Mac OS X, they've been revised and extended to bookmarks since. | Continue reading