Because Apple believed in making the best desktop printer with available technology at the time and cost was a secondary consideration. The Apple LaserWriter was the first desktop laser printer that could print complex graphics at 300 dpi. The LaserWriter...
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The new iMac Pro
The new iMac Pro is getting closer. As well as announcing the availability date (15 December), Apple have seeded some review units to prominent individuals and some of them are now able to post reviews. Marques Brownlee over on YouTube has...
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Precursor Systems’ FileSharing Assistant for macOS High Sierra Server
In Apple's continued drive to simplify macOS Server, in High Sierra they have completely removed the File Sharing section from the Server.app and force you to use the basic File Sharing settings in System Preferences > Sharing. Whilst you can...
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Check Apple Caching Service availability with Asset Cache Locator Util
I've just discovered a handy command for macOS that will show you Apple Caching Service servers that are available to your Mac. It lives in: /usr/bin/AssetCacheLocatorUtil From the man page: AssetCacheLocatorUtil reports information related to macOS Server caching servers running on the...
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My questions and answers on Quora
I've been moderately active on Quora for a while now. Quora is a site where people can ask questions and others can answer them. The blurb about the site says "Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's...
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On MacOS, how do you recommend to use .bash_profile and .bashrc? – Quora
I think that .bashrc, is only used for interactive shells (i.e. when you open Terminal) and the other one is for all shell executions (e.g. background processes etc). I put everything in my .bashrc and then have one line in...
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Deep dive into Apple’s recent High Sierra root authentication issue
Over on the highly-technical, and very informative, Objective-See blog, there is a great in-depth writeup on Apple's recent High Sierra root access bug. Why <blank> Gets You Root What is happening is if you try to log in as a...
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