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Month: September 2017

If you go down to the woods: Dryads and spirits

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Wood nymphs, Dryads, and Hamadryads, painted by Evelyn De Morgan, Félicien Rops, Walter Crane, JW Waterhouse, and others. And who dresses up as wood nymphs today?

September 30, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Code signing: confusing and weak?

How my apps were correctly signed, but using the wrong certificate. They passed all tests here, but would not come out of quarantine normally on other systems.

September 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT data

Apple has today pushed updates to the configuration data used by XProtect, and that for its malware removal […]

September 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

New version of MakeLogarchive

Fixes an error on some systems which prevented archive generation, and adds a debug mode.

September 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 44 Shape-shifters and death by gluttony

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A maze of myths about shape-shifting, Neptune, and the sea leads to two wonderful but puzzling paintings.

September 29, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

High Sierra: security files, internals and some bugs

It looks much the same as Sierra. Looking at High Sierra’s logs, though, shows that there are significant internal changes. Here’s a first glimpse at SkyLight, APFS and dasd at work.

September 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sisters in Light: Hanna Hirsch-Pauli and Eva Bonnier

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Two young women painters left Stockholm to study in Paris in 1883. Good friends, their paths diverged, but their paintings were full of light – including a real gem.

September 28, 2017 General, Painting

Why can’t I download and install macOS Sierra any more? (Updated)

Like El Capitan before it, Sierra has now vanished from the App Store. It has also been removed from your Purchased list. How can you install it now?

September 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

High Sierra 10.13: supported disk formats and file systems

A brief guide to support in High Sierra and its installer, for different types of drive, and for APFS.

September 27, 2017 Macs, Technology

Updated free tools: should all now pass Gatekeeper checks

All these have now been updated and should pass Gatekeeper checks and run on both Sierra and High Sierra.

September 27, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

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