Daily Archives: February 22, 2021

• How to create a bootable macOS installer

  Posted on February 22nd, 2021 at 01:08 Nathan Parker Comment on the AskWoody Lounge
  

  APPLE

  How to create a bootable macOS installer

  By Nathan Parker

  Once included with macOS, installers are now available only for download.

  In the past, macOS X installers were available on a DVD. This changed with OS X Lion in 2011. The only way to get the installers today is to download them (at no charge) from the Mac App Store.

  Despite this minor inconvenience, the process to create an installer is quite simple.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.7.0 (2021-02-22).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.7.F (2021-02-22).

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• Amazon’s new ‘same-day nodes’ will displace postal deliveries

  Posted on February 22nd, 2021 at 01:06 Brian Livingston Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  Amazon’s new ‘same-day nodes’ will displace postal deliveries

  By Brian Livingston

  The market dominance of Amazon in online retail is well known. But what’s less understood is the effect the corporate giant’s expansion into superfast delivery services will have on the US Postal Service and private parcel companies.

  Marc Wulfraat has extensively studied Amazon’s plans in the United States and 22 other countries in his role as president of MWPVL International, a logistics consulting service based in Montréal, Québec.

  In the past year, Amazon has built eight new “same-day fulfillment centers” in the US.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.7.0 (2021-02-22).

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• Glacially slow, 10-minute boot times!

  Posted on February 22nd, 2021 at 01:04 Fred Langa Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  LANGALIST

  Glacially slow, 10-minute boot times!

  By Fred Langa

  When a PC bogs down to the point where it takes a full 10 minutes just to fully wake up, you know something’s seriously wrong!

  The PC’s owner thinks his startup apps are to blame, and asks how to analyze the PC’s boot process.

  Win10’s free, built-in startup analyzer is part of the answer — but only after trying several other approaches first!

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.7.0 (2021-02-22).

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• The latest vulnerabilities in the network stack

  Posted on February 22nd, 2021 at 01:02 Susan Bradley Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  PATCH WATCH

  The latest vulnerabilities in the network stack

  By Susan Bradley

  Focusing on business risk

  For this week’s security focus, I’m going to home in on the impact of three security vulnerabilities considered by Microsoft the most critical security issues of the month and on their impact on businesses. Microsoft even released a specific blog post to focus on these risks; it urges installation as soon as possible. But I disagree with that assessment. I urge you to test first, ensure there are no issues with your systems, then patch as normal. I’m not yet ready to give the go-ahead for consumers to patch just yet.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.7.0 (2021-02-22).

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• Freeware Spotlight — FastCopy

  Posted on February 22nd, 2021 at 01:00 Deanna McElveen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  Best Utilities

  Freeware Spotlight — FastCopy

  By Deanna McElveen

  When you need that massive amount of data copied and you don’t have all day.

  When moving large amounts of data from one location to another, Windows can be a bit of a turtle. Sure, you can spend part of your day doing things like setting Optimize Drives to auto, disabling autotuning, disabling Remote Differential Compression, enabling write caching — or you can just use FastCopy by developer Shirouzu Hiroaki.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.7.0 (2021-02-22).

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