With the release of a new ARM based processer for Apple Mac computers, an interesting transition is happening. People who depend on using virtual machines for tasks will need to adapt to new requirements for running them. Aside from VMware Fusion, Parallels and qemu a few other options have popped up. In this post, …

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Testing macOS 11 Big Sur is underway at a lot of organizations in preparation for its release. Lot’s of changes to macOS will have impact on tooling and compatibility. Looking around I didn’t see any existing solutions for automating the build of macOS 11 VMs. With this template and related tools you can …

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This time-lapse is from September 10-19 2020 from my weathercam. It shows the progression of forrest fire spoke in the skys of Ballard WA.

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I’m publishing this script that configures macports from the github source. This method gets you the ports base and ports themselvs from the master branch of git. I have found that using mac ports this way enables support for bleeding edge OS versions or CPU architectures. Grab the code : …

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