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Apple has pushed out its first ever automatic, silent security update to Mac OS X users, fixing a vulnerability in NTP that would’ve allowed hackers to turn Macs into DDoS zombies. In some ways, this finally brings Apple up to parity with Microsoft: Windows has technically had the ability to do automatic updates for a long time, though it’s very rare to see them performed while a system is in use — usually Windows waits for you to shut down to reboot before installing patches. Rather impressively, the OS X security patch should install transparently, with no need to restart.

If you haven't updated to Catalina yet, read on to find out how to update to Catalina or Mojave from High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, or even older version of Mac OS X below. Mac OS X contextual help. Good contextual help is one of the hallmarks of a mature design. I like this use of a video tutorial in the trackpad system preferences on Mac OS X. Interacting with a trackpad might be an unfamiliar thing to some people. In the case that it is, this video shows how to use the interface. The only difference is that layered terry cloth scraps with a square of easyliner and then I just straight-stitched the edges. A Four-Patch in a Square Scrap Quilt - Part 1 Projektownia Jednoiglec. Hearts Freshly Pieced. Treeline Quilt Pattern is now available. All you have to do is open CleanMyMac X on your Mac, select the “Smart Scan” module, and the app scans your system and cleans up unnecessary files, scans for malware, and ensures your settings are set to keep your Mac running as fast as possible by doing things like freeing up RAM and running maintenance scripts.

Last week, some Googlers discovered some vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol (NTP), including a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute malicious code on a remote system. Most Unix-like operating systems (Linux, BSD, OS X, etc.) use NTP to synchronize their clocks — an exact number of vulnerable systems isn’t known, but we’re almost certainly talking about millions of computers, including Macs running OS X 10.8, 10.9, and 10.10.

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In any case, Apple thought this was a good opportunity to try out OS X’s automatic silent-patching mechanism. The feature has been present in OS X for at least a couple of years, but Apple says this is the first time it has ever been used. Whether this is indicative of Apple’s fairly slow-and-lazy approach to security, or just a dearth of vulnerabilities, I don’t know. Even though OS X is gaining in popularity, it still pales in comparison to Windows’ market penetration — so while Microsoft is constantly fighting to keep Windows secure, it’s relatively rare to see hackers or researchers target OS X, and thus we generally see very few security patches from Apple.

Read: Windows 10 vs. OS X Yosemite: The desktop still matters

According to Apple PR, the security update (which is rolling out right now), “is seamless. It doesn’t even require a restart.” Apparently, when it’s your turn to receive the update, it will download and install automatically — the first you’ll know about it is a confirmation box after the patch installs, telling you it was a success. If you don’t want to wait for the automatic update, it can be manually downloaded from the Updates tab of the Mac App Store.

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As far as I’m aware, Windows has had the ability to automatically and silently install updates for a long time (probably since Windows 2000 or Vista), but it’s very rare for Microsoft to actually use it. Microsoft/Windows prefers to download the updates automatically, and then install them at the next opportune moment — usually when you’re shutting down or restarting. Installing a security update while a system in use can be quite risky: If you’re in the middle of an important task, and suddenly the system update daemon starts stealing CPU cycles and grinding the hard drive, it can be rather annoying. Presumably Apple thought the NTP vulnerability was serious enough that it warranted silent installation.

Hopefully Apple didn’t automatically push the update to any OS X systems being used as servers or in an enterprise setting, though, or there might be some rather upset sysadmins tomorrow morning.

Now read: Is the core of Apple’s OS X rotting from within?

Updated Guide Steps:

You need to use a secondary boot drive in order to install a recovery partition to your main drive. The reason for this is because dmtest is unable to write anything to your boot drive now.

  1. Download the latest recoveryscripthere.
  1. Download Mac OS High Sierra from the app store.
  1. Boot from another drive with Mac OS X while your main drive (where you want the recovery partition) is still connected. You can use SuperDuper to clone an install of your Mac OS drive if you want to use that for booting from a 2nd
  1. Open therecovery.sh script in TextEdit. Change the TARGET and MACOS_INSTALLER fields inside the script to match the volume and path you want to install a recovery partition to and where the script can find the Mac OS X High Sierra installer. The High Sierra installer is likely on your main drive so just point to that path. Save the script after.
  1. Run the recovery.sh in terminal with sudo.

After the script completes, you will have a recovery partition created. You can check for it in Disk Utility.

Note: You will not be able to install a recovery partition on an Apple RAID drive. These steps will fail and you will receive the following message:

Error (async): The given disk has a storage system (such as AppleRAID) which is not supported for this operation (-69718)

Old Guide Steps:

In this guide, we will update a Mac’s old recovery partition(10.7 Lion or younger) to Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.5. Mac OS does not automatically update the recovery partition on Apple computers when you update the OS or re-install a new copy of the OS. This can be frustrating in certain circumstances. For example, the 10.7 recovery partition does not include the same Terminal bash commands as High Sierra, such as csrutil.

The Mac OS X recovery boot options

Command ⌘ + R (Partition Recovery):

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This will attempt to boot from a recovery partition on your hard drive. A recovery partition

Is created by default when you install Mac OS X for the first time.

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Option + Command ⌘ + R (Internet Recovery):

This boots to Internet Recovery mode and will only grab the version of Mac OS X that originally shipped with the Mac. This is behavior controlled by the Apple servers and you will not be able to change the Internet recovery re-install image unless Apple decides too. This means if you re-install Mac OS Lion 10.7 on a Mac that shipped with 10.7 and decide to upgrade to High Sierra, you will still have the Lion 10.7 Internet Recovery image. The exception are the Macs that originally shipped with a recovery DVD prior to Lion, or earlier Macs that lack the firmware update to boot into Internet Recovery. On some older Mac’s, Internet recovery is done with key combo shift + option + command ⌘ + r.

In this case, we will update the recovery partition on our MacBook Pro 2011 from the default 10.7 Lion recovery partition to the High Sierra recovery partition 10.13.6.

  1. Download the latest Mac OS High Sierra installation from the App Store. After downloading, right-click the installation file (located inside Applications) and choose show package contents. Browse to Contents/SharedSupport and copy InstallESD.dmg to your Mac user Downloads folder.
  1. Downloadrecovery.zip here, unzip it, and place the recovery.sh file in your Mac user Downloads folder.
  1. Download Lion Recovery Update v1.0here and copy it to your Mac user Downloads folder. (We will use the Lion recovery updater to update the recovery partition for this process)
  1. Verify your 3 files are inside your user home Downloads folder – recovery.sh, RecoveryHDUpdate.dmg, InstallESD.dmg.
  1. OpenTerminal(Applications -> Utilities) and type the following commands.

Verify you see Creating recovery partition: finished message. Don’t worry about the other messages displayed – including the common last line below. It can be safely ignored!

touch: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist: Operation not permitted

Test your new recovery partition. Reboot and hold down Command ⌘ + R.

Finally, the only other recovery option available is to install Mac OS High Sierra on a bootabledrive(USB or portable drive) using Install Disk Creator.

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