Useful macOS defaults: Screen Saver
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.screensaver, controlling screen saver password and timing.
Mac
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What is spindump?
If you see spindump running on your Mac, here is what this hang detection process does.
Mac
De Cock en moord à la carte by A.C. Baantjer
A restaurant menu carries a full written confession to a murder, and De Cock recalls an old killing he never solved.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0073 • August 2012
August 2012 showed how weak account recovery, leaky databases and government surveillance powers all chip away at personal privacy at once.
Privacy
Monthly update #0268 • August 2012
Monthly update 268 • August 2012 • 2012-08-01 - 2012-08-31
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0027 • July 2012
The month a bankrupt, divided, communist-led island took the wheel, a central banker promised whatever it takes with money he did not have, and Brussels began drafting itself a tax.
Eurobloat
CFBag
The article explores the CFBag and CFMutableBag Core Foundation types, which implement a bag (multi-set) data structure, allowing multiple occurrences of elements with associated counts.
Development
What is FileCoordination?
If you see FileCoordination running on your Mac, here is what this file access coordination process does.
Mac
The Janson Command by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command, co-authored with Paul Garrison, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid rescue a doctor in West Africa and uncover an oil cartel pulling the strings.
Books
CFStringTransform
NSString and its toll-free bridged counterpart CFMutableString in Foundation and Core Foundation are highlighted for their exceptional Unicode handling, with CFStringTransform enabling powerful string transformations like stripping diacritics, naming Unicode characters, and transliterating between scripts such as Latin, Cyrillic, and Hiragana.
Development
De Cock en de bloedwraak by A.C. Baantjer
A young man threatens a tourist with an infected needle, and the arrest pulls De Cock into a murder tied to the fear of AIDS.
Books
Monthly update #0267 • July 2012
Monthly update 267 • July 2012 • 2012-07-01 - 2012-07-31
Monthly Updates
Brave
A Bridge Too Far (1977), directed by Richard Attenborough, shows Operation Market Garden. This Allied plan in 1944 aimed to seize bridges in the Netherlands to end the war fast. It failed. The film uses a large cast.
Movies
Privacy Roundup #0072 • July 2012
July 2012 was defined by a wave of plaintext password leaks, fresh evidence of mass cellphone and Skype surveillance, and a string of regulators and courts wrestling with location tracking and facial recognition.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0026 • June 2012
The month Brussels answered a debt crisis caused by too much Europe with a prescription of more Europe, handed the keys to your banks to the ECB, and told the Parliament to sit down when member states tried to guard their own borders.
Eurobloat
NSSortDescriptor
NSSortDescriptor is a Foundation class used to sort collections. It is created with a key (property to sort on), ascending (true for ascending order), and optionally a selector or comparator for comparisons.
Development
House M.D.
House M.D. is an American medical drama series. It aired on Fox from 16 November 2004 to 21 May 2012. David Shore created it. Hugh Laurie plays Dr Gregory House, a brilliant but difficult diagnostician who leads a team at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
TV Series
What is findmymac?
If you see findmymac running on your Mac, here is what this device tracking and security process does.
Mac
What are the managedclient processes?
If you see managedclient processes running on your Mac, here is what these device management processes do.
Mac
NSCache
NSCache works like NSMutableDictionary but removes objects automatically when memory runs low. This saves you from handling memory warnings or setting up timers to clear space.
Development
What is CSCSupportd?
If you see CSCSupportd running on your Mac, here is what this client-side caching process does.
Mac
NSIndexSet
NSIndexSet and its mutable version, NSMutableIndexSet, form a sorted set of unique unsigned integers. They act like an NSRange that allows gaps.
Development
De Cock en moord eerste klasse by A.C. Baantjer
A run of nearly identical murders of young women in the first-class compartments of trains leaves De Cock without a motive or a suspect.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0071 • June 2012
June 2012 paired a wave of unsalted password breaches at LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm with the unmasking of the state-built Flame and Stuxnet cyberweapons and fresh fights over surveillance law.
Privacy
Monthly update #0266 • June 2012
Monthly update 266 • June 2012 • 2012-06-01 - 2012-06-30
Monthly Updates