Random Stuff Archives

A couple months ago, I identified a (likely) bug in Intel versions of macOS Sequoia. How's that been going? Though it's faked me out a couple times...the bug is still here, and still just as bad.

You've got a big logfile, and something weird is happening, but you don't know what. There's lots of data there, and you're sure there are patterns. How can you make sense of the chaos, quickly, when you really don't even know where to begin? Sometimes, you just need The Old Tools.

After a lot of exploration and experimentation, I'm finally closing in on a strategy that, if it won't SOLVE the problems Ive been having, should at least mitigate them.

My Mac's disk has been filling up. I think I figured out where the problem was, but spent a week collecting data to be sure. Now I'm more confident, but also more confused.

My Mac Mini's disk kept filling up. A lot. Even after I got rid of crap, it filled up again. Multiple gigs in just a day. What the hell is going on?

My decade-old NAS finally conked out. Just how easy is it, really, to move the drives to a newer unit? Let's find out.

My 3D Blu-Ray stopped working. It took an hour to figure out the stupid simple cause.

I've been waiting for this eclipse for nearly 40 years. Here's how I got to see it firsthand.

The parties have made voting even more of a hassle, and more infuriating, than the months of attack ads we endure.

Last year, Apple introduced advanced power saving techniques. Can they do the same for memory? There’s never enough to smoothly switch between apps. If they can fix that, a world of opportunities opens.

Backing up iOS devices to iCloud is still opaque and unreliable. And iTunes Wi-Fi backups just don't work at all.

How we set up multiple personal iCloud accounts for the family, and a couple of shared accounts for parents and kids.