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M1 Macs and Apple Silicon

For a systematic compilation of links to articles here about Apple Silicon Macs, specifically its M1 models, go […]

January 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Mac Troubleshooting Summary

A starting point for diagnosing and fixing your Mac problems, with links to key articles here.

April 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Non-lossy compression

Explains how Huffman code works, how it’s used for compressed files, and how other techniques including LZ, LZW and LZFSE differ.

May 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Perfect pastels by Jean-Étienne Liotard

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Applying his soft pastels to vellum, his paintings are hyper-realist in their fine detail. He was also an eccentric, living mostly in Turkish dress, and a renowned painter of portraits.

May 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Efficient resilient storage

Storage has to be reliable, efficient and resilient. However, efficiency and resilience oppose one another. What’s the best solution? New file formats, CRC in the file system, or what?

May 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Paul Signac 6: Consumption and demolition

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More fine views of Saint-Tropez, including a young woman supposedly dying of TB, an industrial Paris cityscape, and an anarchist worker.

May 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How macOS copes with heavy workloads on M1 cores

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How the E and P cores in an M1 Max chip cope with the heavy system workload after login, but still give the user the scope to run apps immediately.

May 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Sheer Delight 6: Flesh and fashion

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Pastellist like Rosalba Carriera led the way in making marks to create the illusion of finely detailed fabrics. This contrasts with smooth and detailed faces.

May 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Does a faster external SSD help M1 Macs boot faster?

With the right enclosure, a Samsung 980 PRO NVMe SSD delivers transfer speeds of around 2.8 GB/s. Does that make booting from it any faster, compared with an SSD at half the speed?

May 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

Colour Notes 6: One man in ten

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In some populations, as many as one in ten men has significant colour vision deficiency. What effect does that have on how they perceive paintings?

May 24, 2022 General, Life, Macs, Painting

How to investigate network problems effectively

You might be lucky and solve it by inspiration. When that fails, fall back on a careful, thorough and systematic approach as explained here.

May 24, 2022 Macs, Technology

Current firmware and security data software versions updated

Following last week’s updates, I have now completed updating my databases and listings of current Mac firmware for […]

May 23, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

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