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Used by two of XProtect’s malware detection features, Yara rules are valuable way to check whether files satisfy a logical condition, and more.| The Eclectic Light Company
Cutting the grain crop, in paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Samuel Palmer, John Linnell, Jean-François Millet, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Mykola Pymonenko and others.| The Eclectic Light Company
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: It’s about […]| The Eclectic Light Company
It provided 3 protections when introduced in El Capitan in 2015, and has now grown extensively to cover NVRAM, kernel boot arguments, authentication of root, and even malware scans.| The Eclectic Light Company
Every painter should have a suit of armour hanging in their studio, and those of German Romantics, Pre-Raphaelites and others, of Don Quixote.| The Eclectic Light Company
How to check there's no hardware problem, then use Restore in DFU mode to completely wipe internal storage, including firmware, and reset the NVRAM.| The Eclectic Light Company
Worn by Mars, Athena/Minerva and Bellona, it also featured in the war against Troy. It was worn by Joan of Arc, and by Lovis Corinth too.| The Eclectic Light Company
Apple has just released urgent security updates to bring macOS Sequoia to 15.6.1, Sonoma to 14.7.8, and Ventura […]| The Eclectic Light Company
Although not entirely new, from 1620 still life paintings were highly popular, thanks to skilled painters migrating from Flanders and Brabant to escape religious oppression.| The Eclectic Light Company
Used by two of XProtect’s malware detection features, Yara rules are valuable way to check whether files satisfy a logical condition, and more.| The Eclectic Light Company
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A meta-search for Apple’s patents on search, and turning the incessant log chatter of RunningBoard to our advantage in following uninstrumented apps.| The Eclectic Light Company
Dire warnings of the consequences of Google’s answer engine resulting in over-exploitation of the web and its exhaustion. It’s time to stand up and declare what’s written by a hum…| The Eclectic Light Company
How your Mac can use less energy and power, run its battery down less, generate less heat, and keep its P cores for the work you want it to do for you.| The Eclectic Light Company
Don’t rely on being able to use any Apple installer package unless it has been downloaded recently: its certificate is about to expire.| The Eclectic Light Company
Viable – create and run macOS virtual machines on Apple silicon Macs Takes an IPSW image, available from Apple or downloaded in the app, and creates a virtual machine from it. Runs those virt…| The Eclectic Light Company
Spundle – create, resize and compact sparse bundles Updated. Simple utility to create sparse bundles of any maximum size, choose from six different file systems, and custom band sizes. Also r…| The Eclectic Light Company
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An early view inside the Uffizi, a Baron who couldn’t stop collecting, views inside the Royal Academy and jury selection for the Salon, and much more in the Louvre.| The Eclectic Light Company
Netscape Navigator 1994, Cyberdog and Internet Explorer in 1996, Chimera/Camino in 2002, OmniWeb in 2000, and finally Safari in 2003, and more besides.| The Eclectic Light Company
How your password isn’t used to encrypt the Data volume on your Mac’s internal SSD, but is used to encrypt the key used for that encryption, and the benefits.| The Eclectic Light Company
Are you prepared for the removal of support for AFP in a ‘future version of macOS’? Here’s what you need to know, and what you should consider doing.| The Eclectic Light Company
Should you run First Aid on your Data volume before updating macOS, or as routine housekeeping? And how should you run it?| The Eclectic Light Company
Four eras: rebuilding the Desktop, repairing permissions, resetting Home permissions, and most recently cursing privacy protection. A cynical history?| The Eclectic Light Company
Milkmaids milking cows in the shed, a farmer threshing and winnowing grain, churning butter, and a young couple courting by the back-ends of cows.| The Eclectic Light Company
ASIF disk images are new in Tahoe, and promise to be space efficient, as they’re sparse files, and almost as fast as the disk they’re stored on. Ideal for VMs and general use.| The Eclectic Light Company
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LogUI can now read and browse saved logarchive packages, including those from other Macs, and iOS and iPadOS devices.| The Eclectic Light Company
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Users should be given a third option to defer updating further, as well as doing it now or later tonight. Does the DAS scheduling and dispatch system rely on security through obscurity too?| The Eclectic Light Company
This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have been successfully updated to run macOS 12.7.6. Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current firmware versions which should…| The Eclectic Light Company
This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have been successfully updated to run macOS 11.7.10. Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current firmware versions which shoul…| The Eclectic Light Company
macOS 10.15 Catalina brings EFI firmware updates for all supported models, and subsequent updates have changed those for most models too. This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have…| The Eclectic Light Company
Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current EFI firmware versions which should be installed on each model of Mac. Until 30 October 2018, it provided usable version numbers in System…| The Eclectic Light Company
How to check it, what the current version is, what to do about any problems. All your questions answered – even on ethernet firmware now.| The Eclectic Light Company
Classic Mac OS stored a great deal of structured data in the resource forks of its files. Those were edited using ResEdit, an essential tool for every advanced user.| The Eclectic Light Company
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.| The Eclectic Light Company
