mac posts

MacOS 15.7.2 seems to have fixed my issue with very slow Touch ID on awakening. …

Since MacOS 15.7.1, the touch ID (fingerprint reader) often takes a while to bec…

I think I have finally worked through and fixed the issues caused by Mac OS 15.…

Looks like my Macbook Air (2020 Intel) will not be supported for the next major …

After running into some problems with some rsync scripts recently, I discovered…

In Mac OS Sonoma, browsers now require and the OS will ask for the "Local N…

I wanted to create some global keyboard shortcuts for launching apps on MacOS. …

Reading this weekend about a backdoor introduced to the open source xz project.…

Updating to MacOS 14.2 also meant I had to update to the latest VirtualBox versi…

I recently updated to Mac OS version 13 (Ventura). It mostly went smoothly, bu…

Today, when running Vagrant on my Mac, I was greeted with a message "Vagran…

At some point recently, git init on my Mac has started to default to the branch…

During my sick time at home, I discovered that Cosmic Osmo, Manhole, and Spelunx…

I updated to Mac OS Monterey (12.5) finally. It went smoothly but I'm still wor…

I've made another new laptop purchase in the past couple months: I bought a re…

I accidentally made a 147GB file filled with grep output and almost filled up my…

It seems the WiFi in my aging 2009 Macbook is dying. It's been having problems …

Last month, I finally bought a new laptop with plans to replace my aging 2009 M…

The installation of a new version of nodejs via MacPorts took nearly two hours. …

I've been having trouble with IPv6 on my El Capitan Mac over T-Mobile's network.…

It has been a long, weird evening, with a lot of time spent on computer updates …

I recently tried to install vagrant on a Mac OS X.11 (El Capitan) machine, but …

After my work laptop was stolen and I switched to an older Mac Mini, my wi-fi i…

Had my clothes washer problem again. Stopped in the wash phase and just sat the…

Not sure if it was a recent Mac security update or a change with macports, but m…

Got my washer working not long after my post about it stopping working. With th…

My clothes washer has stopped working. No lights, no movement, no water; nothin…

Finally updated Macports on my system after updating my OS in December. Macpor…

Found an answer to a long standing Mac OS keyboard navigation question: How to …

A few weeks ago, I finally made the jump from Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to 10.…

I had never owned a Windows or X86 computer (though I did borrow one from schoo…

After running the utility Onyx on my computer to both clean it up a bit and cha…