The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all. https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5 Basically $EVIL_HACKER issues a pull request against a large number of open source git repos of popular npm...
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How the Meltdown and Spectre exploits work in layman’s terms
Thanks to Joe Fitz (Twitter: @securelyfitz) who has written a relatively easy to understand overview about how the recent #meltdown and #spectre bugs work in layman's terms: https://twitter.com/securelyfitz/status/949004862968143873 Let's say you go to a library that has a 'special collection'...
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How did the Apple LaserWriter become the first printer to ship with PostScript on 1985? – Quora
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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If you’re running macOS High Sierra, make sure you have this update installed NOW!
If you're running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, run, don't walk, to the App Store and install Apple Security Update 2017-001 right now. If you want to download the update to manually install, or push out with Munki or your favourite...
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