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Reply to Control panel not visible
Running Big Sur under VirtualBox I see no menubar items when running in 'Light' mode. If I switch to 'Dark' mode the menubar items become visible. However, selecting any of the menubar items causes the WindowManger to crash. This may be an artifact of VirtualBox and it's hardware model, but it's still a rather strange result.
Jul ’20
Reply to mmap() fails on Big Sur beta10 Apple Silicon - TEST PROGRAM INCLUDED
On 11.0.1 Beta (20B5022a) bryan@nvbigsur mapfail % cc -m64  -g -Wall -Werror -o mapfail mapfail.c bryan@nvbigsur mapfail % codesign -vvvv mapfail mapfail: code object is not signed at all In architecture: x86_64 bryan@nvbigsur mapfail % ./mapfail 10000000 10000 maping from 0x10000000 to 0x10010000 is OK Unable to reserve 0x10000000 for the test1 heap,  using 0x10ad37000 instead test1 heap mapped from 0x10ad37000 to 0x10ad48000 bryan@nvbigsur mapfail % 
Nov ’20
Reply to Oh my god, what have I done?
I think the only way to recover this is to reinstall macOS and then restore your data from your most recent backup. You are not alone in having done this - I made a similar mistake 30+ years ago on a Solaris machine, but fortunately had a full (and recent) backup to recover with. Consider it as a 'rite of passage' to being a Unix system admin and don't do it again :)
Mar ’21