https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/12/last-week-on-my-mac-scary-hasty/ Skip to content [eclecticlight] The Eclectic Light Company Macs, painting, and more Main navigation Menu * Downloads * M-series Macs * Mac Problems * Mac articles * Art * Macs * Painting hoakley November 12, 2023 Macs, Technology Last Week on My Mac: Scary hasty It was a novel idea: a Hallowe'en Event, timed when most of Europe had already gone to bed, announcing three-quarters of the new M3 chip range that would previously have taken place in stages. They are scary fast, but seemingly launched in scary haste, leaving Apple to fix their problems in macOS updates last week, just as the first owners of M3 Macs were in the midst of unboxing. Meanwhile, the rest of us were left puzzled. Sonoma 14.1.1 apparently contains "important bug fixes and security updates", but Apple wouldn't tell us what they are. Ventura 13.6.2 is only available for a limited range of models, and Apple again refuses to explain what it's for. The best answer that I can offer is that those two macOS updates fix at least three separate problems, each of Apple's own making. M3 muddle It took Apple a full eleven months to progress from the original M1 chip to M1 Pro and Max, and seven months from the first M2 to M2 Pro and Max, yet those three variants of the M3 were released on the same day. It looks now as if basic M3 models were being built well before the release of macOS Sonoma on 26 September 2023, most probably back in July when macOS 13.5 was released. Whether Apple had ever intended to release those in the summer remains speculation. As those initial M3 MacBook Pro and iMac models were built so long ago, they couldn't ship with Sonoma, but had to make do with Ventura 13.5 instead. In its previous autumn/fall Apple silicon releases, Apple has pre-installed a late version of the forthcoming major version of macOS. Although that has sufficed, it required early adopters to rush straight into a macOS update before they encountered the serious bugs in what was still a beta-release of macOS. This time, as 13.5 was a stable release, there should have been no problems with this strategy, if only those new M3 models had been supported by subsequent updates to macOS 13.x and Sonoma itself. That was overlooked in the scary fastness, and when unboxed those brand new Macs were locked in macOS 13.5 and couldn't be updated beyond that. These macOS 13.6.2 and Sonoma 14.1.1 updates rectify that embarrassing error, for both the new MacBook Pro and iMac models that are being delivered with 13.5 pre-installed. MacBook Pro black screens Apple also had a severe bug outstanding from the previous macOS updates that needed an urgent fix. In certain display configurations, at least, recent MacBook Pro models could get stuck during that update, showing a black screen of death. Of course, Apple doesn't seem to have acknowledged that bug, but needed to release revised updates to macOS 14.1 and 13.6.1 to address it. That appears to be why 13.6.2 is available for MacBook Pro models from 2021 onwards, and not just the new M3 models. More bugs When I analysed the differences between macOS 14.1 and 14.1.1, the only significant change I could find was a single build number increment in the QuartzCore framework, which seemed strange. Apparently, there have been reports that macOS 14.1 broke part of the interface of Adobe Photoshop, and it's now thought that bug was fixed in 14.1.1. Looking back at 14.1, its QuartzCore framework build number had gone from 1049.40 in macOS 14.0 to 1109.2, although there had been no change in version number. The 14.1.1 update incremented that to build version 1109.3. As updates go, that's a very small change, but it stands out against the thousands of unchanged components of /System/ Library in 14.1.1. Security? Apple hasn't been forthcoming in telling us what either of these updates brought, although that for 14.1.1 is explicitly stated as containing "security updates". Turn to Apple's security release notes , and although both 14.1.1 and 13.6.2 are listed, neither has any "published CVE entries". Whether that will change in the future is, like everything else about these macOS updates, speculation. Release notes Once again Apple is a sitting duck over its lamentable lack of documentation. Telling us that these updates contain "important bug fixes and security updates" simply isn't good enough. But for once I wonder if those preparing these updates were as much in the dark as we are. With the secrecy surrounding the release of new M3 Macs, it wouldn't surprise me if those responsible for documenting these updates were as surprised as we were when watching Apple's Scary Fast event. Perhaps a little less haste, less Chinese whispers, and Apple could have spared itself the embarrassment. Share this: * Twitter * Facebook * Reddit * Pinterest * Email * Print * Like this: Like Loading... Related Posted in Macs, Technology and tagged Apple, Apple silicon, documentation, M3, macOS 13, macOS 14, security, Sonoma, update, Ventura. Bookmark the permalink. 32Comments Add yours 1. 1 [8f32360a2c4f] Maurizio on November 12, 2023 at 8:17 am Reply At least they are very chatty about M3 Gpu https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/111375 but you have to discover the new shortcut actions every time, hoping for something new or correction, seams that shortcut dev work in anarky partially off topic , no ipc improvment on M3 core LikeLiked by 1 person + 2 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 8:41 am Reply Thank you. What are you referring to as 'IPC', please? Howard. LikeLike o 3 [8f32360a2c4f] Maurizio on November 12, 2023 at 9:15 am Reply Instruction per cycle , the performance gain on M3 vs M2 scale lineary with frequency jump to 4 ghz from 3.4 on all workloads , there are no improvment on architectural side , just from lithography node improvment LikeLiked by 1 person # 4 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 9:18 am Well, the CPU cores have the same architecture, don't they? I don't recall Apple claiming any change in that, do you? Howard LikeLike o 5 [8f32360a2c4f] Maurizio on November 12, 2023 at 9:19 am Reply Thats for Pcore , Ecore instead get a 10% boost at iso frequency LikeLike o 6 [8f32360a2c4f] Maurizio on November 12, 2023 at 9:33 am Reply It is not exaclty the same core , the go to Arm-8.6A subset ,maybe we have to wait Arm-9 implementation with SVE for vector vorkload AMX and ANE get a small bump , i was hoping for a smal revision , they are almost the same since M1 At moment all the transistor budget was spent on gpu side (+5 bilion) Anyway they are still best in the ballpark LikeLiked by 1 person # 7 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 9:35 am What about cluster size and core management? I hear rumours that clusters now include six cores, which would have substantial effects. Howard LikeLiked by 1 person 2. 8 [8f32360a2c4f] Maurizio on November 12, 2023 at 9:54 am Reply they changed the strategy on how to cut the wafer to maximize yeld , with M3 there are 3 design vs 2 of M2 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F93wqEnWMAAi4OO?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F93wqEqXMAA5hVC?format=jpg&name=large This is how they aggregate cluster (very odd , but in that way they can save more wafer using binned chip) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F922zLFWEAA5iaO?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F922zLDWYAA4X20?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F922zLDWoAAkr4t?format=jpg&name=large And here you could see analiticaly the cluster aggegation looking at intercluster latency (at 3:13 time stamp) LikeLiked by 2 people + 9 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 9:57 am Reply Thank you. There are much simpler ways of looking at clusters, but no one seems to have reported results yet. My M3 Pro should be here before the end of the month, so I'll be able to check it out then. Howard LikeLike 3. 10 [01ae53f8f710] Michele Galvagno on November 12, 2023 at 9:58 am Reply Why they've been so hasty is truly a mystery. Besides the obvious-they need to boost sales--, this may have something to do with their saying, back in 2020, that full transition would complete in 2 years, when it took 2.5 (Mac Pro coming June this year). So, they may already have planned this all along and it would not be the M3 early but most of the M2 lineup late. From a customer's perspective, I would be quite annoyed if they updated machines every 12 months or less: these are not iPhones... 18 months like iPads? Acceptable. 2 years, best. I had hoped for FaceID on these Macs... maybe they'll surprise us with that in Spring 2024 [?] LikeLiked by 2 people + 11 [af1743829b23] Metin on November 12, 2023 at 10:11 am Reply I might be completely wrong, but my impression is that Apple has become a bit too business driven since Tim Cook, and paying not enough attention to software technical details. There are also numerous examples of Apple releasing interesting software innovations, but then seemingly loosing interest to further invest in them, with Siri probably being just the most prominent example. LikeLiked by 2 people o 12 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 12:10 pm Reply Thank you. That has been Apple all the way along, though. Sure, with our rose-tinted spectacles the past was a golden age when Apple was a charitable foundation that worked purely for its users - not. Apple has always been business-driven - it's a highly successful corporation, and has always had a legal duty to do its best for its shareholders. Apple has a very long history of coming up with brilliant ideas, superb engineering, and then losing interest in them. If you've long enough time to read it, I'll make you a list from System 6 onwards, but it'll be very long indeed. OpenDoc, Rhapsody, Taligent already spring to mind. Even QuickTime. Howard. LikeLike o 13 [2c27638b7fbb] Simon on November 12, 2023 at 4:54 pm Reply I agree. Apple was always a business and about profit - but as anybody who's being honest knows, there is some middle ground between two extremes: being a charity and being a mega-corp bully. You're entirely right, there was a time when user experience was deemed more important. Now, it often feels like not a whole lot more than an afterthought. Just take the TV app user experience. And that's after how many macOS updates now? I guess selling movies for profit is more important than being able to actually watch them well. Just like upselling +8GB RAM for $200 is deemed more important than ensuring that every config sold is actually a good product out of the box. Apple has moved a whole lot more towards mega-corp jerk than they should have. Perhaps that's the price to pay if you want to be the largest corp on the planet. Only, who said you must to do that? Stock markets like it, users be damned. Oh well. They will eventually be overtaken by the next fad, competition will heat up, and they will be forced to try harder again. No mega corp has ever ruled over everybody for more than a couple decades. Just ask Standard Oil or Kodak. LikeLiked by 2 people + 14 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 12:05 pm Reply Thank you, Michele. I think you'll find this was planned years ago, as that's the sort of lead time involved in chip development. Maybe the exact timing wasn't as clear then, maybe they had intended to release basic M3 models in the summer, and some of this will have depended on TSMC getting the process up and running, and reasonable yields. In the Intel days past, MacBook Pros in particular were updated every 12 months or less. But these improvements in the M3 aren't as big a leap as from Intel to Apple silicon - they're more incremental. Hence my lack of enthusiasm for replacing either of my M1 Macs with M2 models. However, I reckon the gap between M1 and M3 is sufficient to be more interesting, and worth the investment. Some people change their car every year, but most hang on to theirs for 2-4 years, feeling no compulsion (or cash!) to change theirs sooner, and I think this is a similar choice. I'm unsure why you want Face ID on a Mac, given that it would have been straightforward long before Apple silicon appeared. I'm prepared to be as wrong as usual, but I still don't think that it's as practical for a Mac, even a notebook, let alone a desktop. You can hardly hold your Mac Studio display up in the way that you can an iPhone or iPad. Howard. LikeLiked by 1 person o 15 [01ae53f8f710] Michele Galvagno on November 12, 2023 at 12:54 pm Reply Face ID changed in better my iPhone and iPad experience in an incredible way, so much that I couldn't see me going back. Having the same for MacBooks and for Apple Displays would be the natural evolution to me, and something I would most welcome. I'm not economically in a position to change my Mac every new model, not even every 2-4 years to be honest. At least not for now. Some say that buying new one and selling old one is in the end a good thing economically as well, but setting up a new personal & professional computer (with all machine-locked licenses) would be too big of a chore to do every year. LikeLiked by 1 person # 16 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 2:34 pm So, how could you align your face and the camera in notebooks or an Apple Studio Display without making this really awkward? It's easy to wave an iPhone or iPad at the right distance from your face. But that would be much harder with a Mac or a Studio Display. As it would need to replace Touch ID, for the great majority of users it would be far more awkward, and force them to enter their password instead. Howard. LikeLike # 17 [01ae53f8f710] Michele Galvagno on November 12, 2023 at 2:59 pm Since the iPhone 12, the camera can unlock even in awkward (non-frontal) angles without problems. So, technology-wise, it wouldn't be a problem at all. TouchID could remain, why remove it? That notch, though, seems incomplete with just a camera. LikeLiked by 1 person o 18 [5ff9a57cd177] jmrichards7f14f5632c on November 12, 2023 at 3:28 pm Reply I would surmise that Apple has settled on the Apple Watch as the "no touch" unlock mechanism, not Facial ID. I have a Watch and the function to unlock my Mac works very well. LikeLiked by 1 person # 19 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 5:58 pm I think you're absolutely correct. With Watch unlock and Touch ID, there isn't the room for the vagaries and awkwardness of Face ID. Howard. LikeLike # 20 [01ae53f8f710] Michele Galvagno on November 12, 2023 at 7:58 pm Erm... so those without an Apple Watch and no intention or interest of getting one should just feel "not part of the herd"? Also, I don't understand (and would like to) why you seem to have strong feelings against FaceID. If it's because of the masked period we had, I understand. Thanks LikeLiked by 1 person # 21 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 8:43 pm The more I think about this, the less likely I think it's likely to happen: 1. If Apple had intended to introduce Face ID to Mac, it could easily have done so several years ago. But it hasn't. That would have addressed the problem of biometric ID for services such as ApplePay on T2 Intel Macs, for instance. 2. Only internal cameras could be supported. That's because it's far too easy to use an external video signal to hack your way in if any external camera were to be supported. 3. That would mean that no Mac mini, Mac Studio or Mac Pro could ever support Face ID. 4. Even a notebook running in clamshell mode couldn't support it. 5. Most embarrassingly, the Studio Display wouldn't support it either. That's before we even get to the practicality of putting your face within the camera's range with one of the few models that could support Face ID. Compare that with Touch ID, which is supported on every Apple silicon Mac model, and Watch unlock, which is supported on many Intel Macs as well. Howard. LikeLiked by 1 person o 22 [188dbc38e83c] testduck on November 12, 2023 at 3:33 pm Reply > Some people change their car every year, but most hang on to theirs for 2-4 years, feeling no compulsion (or cash!) to change theirs sooner Oooops, bought my last car in 2006. Volvo 940, a used one. Still in use and eady for another 400.000 kilometers. At least my Macs have a higher rotation of 3-4 years. LikeLiked by 2 people # 23 [01ae53f8f710] Michele Galvagno on November 12, 2023 at 8:01 pm Same here! My good old Opel Astra from 1995 served me well until 2018, when the mechanic did something to it that made repairs more expensive than being without a car. 3 years without car were hard--especially in Italy where public transports are just a joke--but we learnt to be stronger. Now we have a nice Kia Rio and I absolutely don't plan to change it until repairs become unaffordable again! The car is (or should be) a tool first and foremost. LikeLiked by 1 person 4. 24 [95c92c6c33c2] SarahB on November 12, 2023 at 3:05 pm Reply It was surprising seeing the troubles when the new M3's got delivered with the old OS on it. Or then the troubles running just 8GB of ram. Even Zollotech's M3 was on Ventura but then the update text for Sonoma was in Chinese. I think I had the most respect for MKBHD who cancelled his M3 MacBook Pro order and stayed with his M1 MacBook Pro since it's still suiting his needs. Shows not everyone needs to upgrade. These M series updates are truly happening too fast now in a way. Twice in one year. Maybe they are just catching up from the covid years slowing things down. I'm still happy with the 2018 Mac mini I ordered new from apple in early 2020. Not that old now but this i3 model was quickly discontinued. I think its the shortest lived product apple sold but I could be wrong. I ordered a 6 core i5 mini before that refurbished from apple but it was DOA after a few days and wouldn't start up. So sent it back and got the new i3. I still miss Steve Jobs. Apple felt different then. Tim Cook seems more about business but Steve cared more about Apple and the products I think. LikeLiked by 2 people + 25 [2c27638b7fbb] Simon on November 12, 2023 at 5:07 pm Reply You're not alone. A lot of us miss Steve and believe Tim has gone too far. The claqueurs will point out that Steve made mistakes (duh) and use that to shore up some weak sauce pseudo argument that Apple has always been bad or that they've never been all that great. It's all just in your head and because of your pink glasses, yada yada. Except, it's not. We know what we see. Fact is, we remember a time when user experience or attention to detail didn't always take 2nd seat to expansion and profit. There was a time when Apple had to fight and they knew they had to have a better product to survive. Now they just point to their vulgar market cap and laugh. A very different world for Mac users. The fanbois will tell us Apple was never a charity as if in the real world your only choice was between charity or corporate mega jerk. As if you couldn't be a successful profit generating business without having to resort to being a greedy soulless bully. Perhaps if there once again were focus on creating reliable carefully detailed real products that serve an actual need and solve an actual problem (while tossing overboard nonsense baloney), they could make more than enough money. Perhaps not enough money to take over the world or rule Wall Street, but as a user, why would I care about Wall Street getting its feelings hurt? They can obsess over some other stock all they want -- I care about getting the best Mac I could get. And when I don't, I will point that out and demand betterment regardless of Apple's stock price, their market cap, Tim's bonus, or that greedy move being a good thing for the stock market. IMHO a true Apple fan wants a better product, not more market cap. LikeLiked by 2 people o 26 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 6:02 pm Reply I think now might be a time to end these rants and return to the topic, please. Howard. LikeLike + 27 [17d96205bc1c] Tristan Hubsch on November 12, 2023 at 5:18 pm Reply Re: Jobs vs. Cook: "The reality distortion field not as strong in this one is." In turn, the only DOA Mac I recall (since 1987) was a Pismo G3 PowerBook. Lucky me, I s'pose... LikeLiked by 1 person 5. 28 [8a53054d5660] prehensileblog on November 12, 2023 at 8:21 pm Reply It appeared to me that 14.1.1 rendered worthless my network solution for bridging ethernet and Wi-Fi for Home Sharing on Apple TV. The problem occurred immediately after applying the update, although these checks were performed: Restarted Apple TV. Restarted Mac. Signed out and back into store purchase authorization in TV app on Mac. Signed out and back into Home Sharing on Mac. Restarted both again. Checked for updates on Apple TV (no update was available). The status remained that Home Sharing titles played instantly in the TV app for Mac, but the same Home Sharing titles were inaccessible from the Apple TV on the bridged network. Also, other network sources played flawlessly on the Apple TV. Configuring the connections for Mac host and Apple TV to bypass the bridging was necessary for a quick fix. However, if memory serves, this is not the first time this issue has occurred immediately following a Mac update. Memory continues to be a fallible way of backing up this sort of assumption, of course. I think I'll be interested in a different solution for Home Sharing, nevertheless. I have no interest in accessing the shares from outside the home network. I reported the issue via Message chat with Apple, but opted not to engage in extensive troubleshooting due to the amount of time that would have been required. I will probably still report my observations through Feedback at Apple. I expect the issue to be solved by the next Apple TV update, which I believe has been the remedy in the past (again, if memory serves). LikeLiked by 1 person + 29 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 8:33 pm Reply I'm sorry to hear that. As Apple doesn't tell us what changed in 14.1.1, we can't try to work out what happened. Howard. LikeLike + 30 [527bf8436cd6] Mike Paine on November 12, 2023 at 10:11 pm Reply With my Apple TV 4K I found I prefer to connect it with ethernet because my Homesharing iMac is also using ethernet. However I did find that I needed to initially connect the ATV with wifi in order for Homesharing (and Homekit) to work. After that I could plug in the ethernet cable. LikeLiked by 1 person o 31 [87cc8acbb0b9] hoakley on November 12, 2023 at 10:36 pm Reply Thank you. Howard. LikeLike 6. 32 [01b0fad51f3b] Warren Nagourney on November 12, 2023 at 10:53 pm Reply Thanks and I am looking forward to your experience with the M3 pro chip - I enjoy your investigations of the M series core utilizations and this chip certainly has a unique arrangement of cores. I don't understand why smart people clamor for FaceID on a Mac. In my experience it works poorly enough on a phone: when wearing a mask I get 50% proper activation (yes, COVID is still with us) and it doesn't work with the phone flat on a desk unless I lean over and then it fails due to my face being too close. As you have said, it wouldn't make sense for the Studio and with an MB pro or air one needs to touch the keyboard anyway so it has no advantage. I was thinking of an M3 max since my M1 Pro has too little ram, but it is too expensive. I do keep computers and iPhones for 5 years or so (and keep cars for at least 10 years. I just sold an airplane which I owned for 32 years and flew it all over the country in some marginal conditions). LikeLike Leave a Reply Cancel reply [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] D[ ] This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. 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